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coalescentSleep is good. Sleep is good when it follows a very long (if admittedly productive) week at work, and sleep is good when it preceeds a six-day trip to Miami. It is therefore particularly good when it fulfills both of the above conditions.
Yes, tomorrow I'm off on my first proper business trip (that two-day meeting in London hardly counts, I've decided), and I'm at that frustrating stage of packing where I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting. I've found my passport, borrowed the digital camera from work, divided up the relevant bits of the programme with my colleagues and been told when and where I'm meeting with various professors. I've arranged for work on the boiler to start in the next few days, and in keeping with tradition (and as an experiment in reverse psychology) I'm writing a nice new livejournal entry specifically so you all have something to commentbomb in my absence.
But I'm still sure there are things I'm forgetting.
In other news, Finding Nemo is wonderful. I don't know how Pixar keep coming up with the goods whilst the rest of Disney flails around in an embarassing fashion, but I'm certainly not complaining. This time out there's perhaps a touch more sentiment than in previous outings, a touch less ambition in the plotting, but all the wit and warmth evident in Toy Story and Monsters, Inc is on full display.
Oh, and as the all-important in-flight reading material, I've acquired this:
Isn't it pretty? Although the actual cover has a blurb from the TLS (!) in place of 'spanning galaxies and millions of years':
Indications so far are good. This is a relief; I wouldn't want the book whose title I've taken as my username to turn out to be pap, after all. Although admittedly it's a little disconcerting that one of the main characters embarks on a trip to Miami early in the book. And the hints that a matriarchal hive-mind may be in the offing are downright disquieting...
Anyway. See y'all in a week or so!
Yes, tomorrow I'm off on my first proper business trip (that two-day meeting in London hardly counts, I've decided), and I'm at that frustrating stage of packing where I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting. I've found my passport, borrowed the digital camera from work, divided up the relevant bits of the programme with my colleagues and been told when and where I'm meeting with various professors. I've arranged for work on the boiler to start in the next few days, and in keeping with tradition (and as an experiment in reverse psychology) I'm writing a nice new livejournal entry specifically so you all have something to commentbomb in my absence.
But I'm still sure there are things I'm forgetting.
In other news, Finding Nemo is wonderful. I don't know how Pixar keep coming up with the goods whilst the rest of Disney flails around in an embarassing fashion, but I'm certainly not complaining. This time out there's perhaps a touch more sentiment than in previous outings, a touch less ambition in the plotting, but all the wit and warmth evident in Toy Story and Monsters, Inc is on full display.
Oh, and as the all-important in-flight reading material, I've acquired this:
Isn't it pretty? Although the actual cover has a blurb from the TLS (!) in place of 'spanning galaxies and millions of years':
'Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision' The Times Literary Supplement
Indications so far are good. This is a relief; I wouldn't want the book whose title I've taken as my username to turn out to be pap, after all. Although admittedly it's a little disconcerting that one of the main characters embarks on a trip to Miami early in the book. And the hints that a matriarchal hive-mind may be in the offing are downright disquieting...
Anyway. See y'all in a week or so!
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Date: 2003-10-12 07:32 am (UTC)Other TLS-SF News: their lead review this week (an entire page) was of Quicksilver, and they were very positive about it; the only flaw, apparently, was the treatment of 'people': Stephenson isn't great with dialogue (everyone rambles on, sounding like a politician or lecturer), and he slips up by giving a female character a very visible, bobbing Adam's apple...
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Date: 2003-10-13 01:32 am (UTC)No coincidence. He's your genuine Baxter fan-boy.
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Date: 2003-10-13 04:38 am (UTC)I seeee. I had this notion that
But he named himself after it as soon as he knew it was forthcoming...
Cool! :o)
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Date: 2003-10-20 01:46 pm (UTC)!
Only as old as some very young hills. Maybe about as old as some remodelled landfill sites.
But he named himself after it as soon as he knew it was forthcoming...
It was a synchronicity thing. I needed a new journal, the previous journal had been a Baxter reference (
ooo pretty pretty
Bon voyage btw, don't get mugged! :-)
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Date: 2003-10-12 02:32 pm (UTC)Oh, and we're not a hive mind. We're a dictatorship. Get it right :p
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Date: 2003-10-13 07:20 am (UTC)-- Tom
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