a wolf angel is not a good angel

It was around 10C outside and clear.
Thank you, National Climate Data and Information Archive.

On a major mailing list in my field, there has lately been a discussion about a paper some not-in-my-field people wrote about my field. Mostly there have been emails about how horrible an article it is, but a few defenses of the article, possibly all from the same person.
But just reading these emails — Usenet […]

If I hadn’t started late, today would have been my last day of work; a few of us will be
staying later, but not many — no one in my building, even (the summer students are spread over a few buildings). (Obviously lots of other people will be in this building.)
Today my officemate gave me a […]

A Prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving
One of those books that always, always makes me cry.
Art & Lies: Jeanette Winterson
I’m not always so sure of her plots — of books written after this book, only one of her other books (Gut Symmetries) had a plot I engaged with (this one and most of her earlier […]

It drives me crazy when friends say they will call and don’t. One in particular does. It drives me crazy. Don’t call; I don’t particularly mind that. But don’t say you will call, tonight!, and then not.
I can’t figure out why exactly it hurts, but it does.

Landlord came by tonight. He’s still here, in fact, fixing the dryer, or trying to.
He said he’d speak to the people upstairs, about the door they keep leaving open (it helps that the basement is full of water, almost certainly due to that), and also about the noise. It is, after all, in the […]

All of these are favourite *authors* more than books, though I’ve tried to choose my favourite of their books.
A Dark-Adapted Eye: Barbara Vine
I’m never sure which of her books I best like. They’re always a bit creepier than her Rendell books.
A Darker Place: Laurie R. King
A standalone from her two series (one a Sherlock Holmes […]

Very few of the cogsci courses interest me. The ones that might all seem to conflict with courses in my department that interest me more. I feel, though, that I should be taking them. And I am right about that: I shouldn’t just take courses within my department. I’m trying to see what Library Science […]

Got to bed at 10 last night. Which means that I woke up at 6 this morning, but that’s okay. I got in an hour of work before I left, then had coffee and OJ (I don’t even like to imagine how much money I spend on juice now, I think I go through 5 […]

Landlord isn’t coming today, apparently. Which means I can’t go out with my coworkers tomorrow night, most likely. Damn.
Back to work. I got in my 35 hours for two weeks ago, now I’m working on last week. It’ll be nice when I’ve caught up. It’ll be even nicer when the paycheques start getting deposited.