Weekend, Yay!
Jan. 24th, 2009 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseThis week at work: evaluations, announcement of bonuses (actual numbers to be revealed next week), discovery that the interface on the Canon PS SX110 IS is way more intuitive than the last Canon I touched, student sort-of-intern originally hailing from Canada. Is talking really fast a particularly Canadian trait?
Dear internet, I have finished all 585 pages of Regenesis. There is so much I want to say about this book, but briefly: I still think Victoria Strassen was on to something. And this is an atevi novel with Ari as Bren. Since I don't like the atevi series, this is not a strong recommendation. Unless you like the atevi series, in which case, skip Cyteen and read about the household staff.
There's another cultural appropriation fight going on (iteration umpteen; I count it as a standing drama since WisCon 30, in 2006) and I have nothing particularly politic to say about it. I'd much rather pick apart Union's power structures, which will go in the Epic Regenesis Post of Epic.
Someday today I have to 1.) beat my laptop into submission, and 2.) call my grandmother, and 3.) figure what I'm eating next week.
Dear internet, I have finished all 585 pages of Regenesis. There is so much I want to say about this book, but briefly: I still think Victoria Strassen was on to something. And this is an atevi novel with Ari as Bren. Since I don't like the atevi series, this is not a strong recommendation. Unless you like the atevi series, in which case, skip Cyteen and read about the household staff.
There's another cultural appropriation fight going on (iteration umpteen; I count it as a standing drama since WisCon 30, in 2006) and I have nothing particularly politic to say about it. I'd much rather pick apart Union's power structures, which will go in the Epic Regenesis Post of Epic.
Someday today I have to 1.) beat my laptop into submission, and 2.) call my grandmother, and 3.) figure what I'm eating next week.
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Date: 2009-01-24 11:55 pm (UTC);-)
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Date: 2009-01-25 12:41 am (UTC)Reading and eating...
Date: 2009-01-26 03:12 am (UTC)As for what you should eat this week, I recommend food. There seems to be a certain level of drama here that I'm not picking up on.
GRS from WSFA
Re: Reading and eating...
Date: 2009-01-27 02:46 am (UTC)Most of the drama is self-induced. Class starts this week, so I'm looking at the mother of all hump days.
Re: Reading and eating...
Date: 2009-01-27 01:54 pm (UTC)"The Prisoner" running when I was about eleven; the first TV show that really worked at messing with your mind (with a tip of the hat to the memory of Patrick McGoohan).
Maybe reading Kosinski's "The Painted Bird" when I was in junior high; now there was an education!
GRS