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Ok, roasting vegetables in the oven at 400 degrees on a 90 degree day for 2 hours wasn't such a hot idea. (Well, actually, it was. Just not in the way I like.) The ratatouille still came out really good.
I've been reading like crazy. I finished all the Angel Sanctuary books the library had. Now I'm stuck - at a very crucial moment in the plot. But I would have said that if I had ended at Book 2, 3, or 4, too.
Finished a Miss Manners book. I don't know what it is about Judith Martin, but I really like the way she handles stupid letters from people about politeness and etiquette. And, I'm just addicted to advice columns. I wonder what it is about them. Perhaps it's the certainty that I am not one of the letter writers or one of the letter writers' subjects. I was just befuddled, reading the letter from the cranky gentleman who bitched about people calling him the next day to thank him for the party the night before.
Finished Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. I really liked it, for the most part. Kind of a depressing end for humanity, though. They don't get to see the stars, explore new horizons, invent new things.
Clarke is also really naive about race. Granted, he wrote the book in the 1950s, but I did a double-take when he called the n-word "convenient". Since when the hell has that word ever been convenient? Black is convenient, and is one syllable. I could even see Negro being a convenient word. But that?
The thing I liked most about it, though, was that the writing was clear and concise. There's no rambling on for several pages about the minute details of a philosophy, or an page-long aside about airplanes that has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.
Another amusing detail - there's someone in the book who says, "Can you believe the average person watches three hours of television everyday?" Hee. Obviously Clarke underestimated our greed for entertainment.
Finished Bait and Switch. Too sleepy to look up her name. I'm still not sure what I think of it, other than noting that she got totally scammed. And it brought up bad memories of that gap between graduation and my first job. If you can call it that - it was a year-long temp position.
I've been reading like crazy. I finished all the Angel Sanctuary books the library had. Now I'm stuck - at a very crucial moment in the plot. But I would have said that if I had ended at Book 2, 3, or 4, too.
Finished a Miss Manners book. I don't know what it is about Judith Martin, but I really like the way she handles stupid letters from people about politeness and etiquette. And, I'm just addicted to advice columns. I wonder what it is about them. Perhaps it's the certainty that I am not one of the letter writers or one of the letter writers' subjects. I was just befuddled, reading the letter from the cranky gentleman who bitched about people calling him the next day to thank him for the party the night before.
Finished Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. I really liked it, for the most part. Kind of a depressing end for humanity, though. They don't get to see the stars, explore new horizons, invent new things.
Clarke is also really naive about race. Granted, he wrote the book in the 1950s, but I did a double-take when he called the n-word "convenient". Since when the hell has that word ever been convenient? Black is convenient, and is one syllable. I could even see Negro being a convenient word. But that?
The thing I liked most about it, though, was that the writing was clear and concise. There's no rambling on for several pages about the minute details of a philosophy, or an page-long aside about airplanes that has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.
Another amusing detail - there's someone in the book who says, "Can you believe the average person watches three hours of television everyday?" Hee. Obviously Clarke underestimated our greed for entertainment.
Finished Bait and Switch. Too sleepy to look up her name. I'm still not sure what I think of it, other than noting that she got totally scammed. And it brought up bad memories of that gap between graduation and my first job. If you can call it that - it was a year-long temp position.