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Mar. 9th, 2004 02:14 pmStill here, just too busy to post much lately.
Despite my best efforts, *still* have not had the massage for which my mom gave me a gift certificate almost a year ago. :( I was scheduled to have it last Saturday but the therapist called in sick and I didn't get the message because they left it on my office VM, so I showed up all chipper and "yay, massage," but noooo. I was super-bummin'. I actually kind of threw a tantrum, which I'm not proud of, but it got the guy to agree to reschedule me for next Saturday and give me it for free, which was nice of him. So I'll have it on Saturday while my mom watches Isaac, and then we'll have my birthday dinner, and I'll still have the gift certificate for another massage sometime later.
But I'm still kinda bummin' that I didn't get it on Saturday. Wah.
In other news, Girl Scout cookies continue to be evil. Eeeeevil, I tell you. Especially when coworkers go and put them out in the public cafeteria with a little envelope to put your money in. Augh!
Random thought of the day: Have you ever looked at your tongue in the mirror? I mean really, really looked at it? It is extremely disgusting. I can't believe anyone would ever voluntarily eat tongue (of any animal) unless they were literally starving. Eww.
A bit belated, but Happy International Women's Day! And also a bit belatedly, I am taking the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
whileaway International Women's Day Challenge. On this occasion, I am recommending a woman's work of science-fiction and/or fantasy that I have read.
Title: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Author: Connie Willis
Year of publication: 1997
Comments: This is a wonderful book for those who like their SF light on the science and heavy on the literary humor. It involves time travel, so there's a certain degree of comedy-of-errors, but not in the hackneyed boring old ways you've seen done a million times. It's hilarious, fascinating, and just plain old entertaining. By the time you get to the final denouement, you may well have figured out the big plot twist that the main character is too befuddled to have realized, but that won't matter, because you'll just be happy to watch it all play out.
Anyway, in short: the book is great, go read it.
Do you have any SF/F by women to recommend?
Despite my best efforts, *still* have not had the massage for which my mom gave me a gift certificate almost a year ago. :( I was scheduled to have it last Saturday but the therapist called in sick and I didn't get the message because they left it on my office VM, so I showed up all chipper and "yay, massage," but noooo. I was super-bummin'. I actually kind of threw a tantrum, which I'm not proud of, but it got the guy to agree to reschedule me for next Saturday and give me it for free, which was nice of him. So I'll have it on Saturday while my mom watches Isaac, and then we'll have my birthday dinner, and I'll still have the gift certificate for another massage sometime later.
But I'm still kinda bummin' that I didn't get it on Saturday. Wah.
In other news, Girl Scout cookies continue to be evil. Eeeeevil, I tell you. Especially when coworkers go and put them out in the public cafeteria with a little envelope to put your money in. Augh!
Random thought of the day: Have you ever looked at your tongue in the mirror? I mean really, really looked at it? It is extremely disgusting. I can't believe anyone would ever voluntarily eat tongue (of any animal) unless they were literally starving. Eww.
A bit belated, but Happy International Women's Day! And also a bit belatedly, I am taking the
whileaway International Women's Day Challenge. On this occasion, I am recommending a woman's work of science-fiction and/or fantasy that I have read.Title: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Author: Connie Willis
Year of publication: 1997
Comments: This is a wonderful book for those who like their SF light on the science and heavy on the literary humor. It involves time travel, so there's a certain degree of comedy-of-errors, but not in the hackneyed boring old ways you've seen done a million times. It's hilarious, fascinating, and just plain old entertaining. By the time you get to the final denouement, you may well have figured out the big plot twist that the main character is too befuddled to have realized, but that won't matter, because you'll just be happy to watch it all play out.
Anyway, in short: the book is great, go read it.
Do you have any SF/F by women to recommend?
