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Ah, spring
Mar. 30th, 2011 01:27 pmWhen the entertaining people start populating the quad again. Today's specimen was a lady talking about Obama using cremations to cover up homicides. There was a student earnestly trying to convince her that there was no One World Government conspiracy, but I don't think he was getting through.
Later this year I can look forward to earnest preachers telling us we're all going to hell, the white lady in the sari who hands out pamphlets on crystal healing, and the usual throng of sorority/fraternity types selling hot dogs and tickets to pancake feeds. (A term I had never seen outside of books until I got here.)
Have sent off the letter to the personal trainer company...no email or fax will do, of course, since they want to keep binging my account for the $35/month. I ended up on Google finding a ton of horror stories about dealing with this particular company, so I was nervous enough to send the letter off certified and return receipted. Cross your fingers that I don't have to engage in some sort of epic battle with these guys. I'll sign up for the Rec center so I can use the pool a couple of times a week...I want to really build that into my exercise routine.
Just finished reading Kage Baker's book The Bird of the River, and loved it wholeheartedly. It's a small fantasy book - small in scope, small in plot, and utterly lovely. You can just glimpse big, wonderful things peeking around the edges, but really it's a story of a young girl growing up and finding her place in the world. Set in the same world as The Anvil of the World, but you don't have to have read that one to enjoy this. Anvil is more comic, and more bustling, and Bird is as lazily flowing as the river, despite the odd demonic river pirate or two.
Have also read the second Matthew Swift book, The Midnight Mayor and also enjoyed it quite a lot. The strength in those books is in the evocation of London as an entity in itself, generating and defining the magic that the main character wields. Must find the next book...I think it's either just come out or is about to come out.
Later this year I can look forward to earnest preachers telling us we're all going to hell, the white lady in the sari who hands out pamphlets on crystal healing, and the usual throng of sorority/fraternity types selling hot dogs and tickets to pancake feeds. (A term I had never seen outside of books until I got here.)
Have sent off the letter to the personal trainer company...no email or fax will do, of course, since they want to keep binging my account for the $35/month. I ended up on Google finding a ton of horror stories about dealing with this particular company, so I was nervous enough to send the letter off certified and return receipted. Cross your fingers that I don't have to engage in some sort of epic battle with these guys. I'll sign up for the Rec center so I can use the pool a couple of times a week...I want to really build that into my exercise routine.
Just finished reading Kage Baker's book The Bird of the River, and loved it wholeheartedly. It's a small fantasy book - small in scope, small in plot, and utterly lovely. You can just glimpse big, wonderful things peeking around the edges, but really it's a story of a young girl growing up and finding her place in the world. Set in the same world as The Anvil of the World, but you don't have to have read that one to enjoy this. Anvil is more comic, and more bustling, and Bird is as lazily flowing as the river, despite the odd demonic river pirate or two.
Have also read the second Matthew Swift book, The Midnight Mayor and also enjoyed it quite a lot. The strength in those books is in the evocation of London as an entity in itself, generating and defining the magic that the main character wields. Must find the next book...I think it's either just come out or is about to come out.
