Yes, I'm still around

Life is strange. Just thought I'd make that observation. Yesterday I went home from college early - skipped off would probably be a better description - and went home to fall into bed. No, I haven't been staying out late and destroying my health in the ways usual to students. I'm just - tired.

I blame it on the trains. An hour standing upright in a packed and airless space coming and going is enough to sap the energy from anyone.

So I slept from 4pm to 8pm, woke up and remembered that I'd got S. M. Stirling's The Protector's War (I very nearly wrote The Protector's Wart for that) and Karen Traviss' (karentraviss) The World Before from Amazon.com the day before. Read from 8 till 11. Protector's War is a good book, though I had some issues with the structure and the pacing. Dies the Fire, Stirling's previous offering, was an order of magnitude better.

My current reading, now, is John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art and Architecture, Kevin Green, An introduction to Archaeology, Fernand Braudel, A Brief History of the Ancient Meditteranean, Charles Coleman Finlay's The Prodigal Troll, Karen Traviss' The World Before, Oswyn Murray, Ancient Greece, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (French and English). Most of them are really good (yes, I'm reading them simultaneously. But that's just because they won't all fit into my backpack).

Spot the odd one out, anybody?

Yes, I'm still around

Life is strange. Just thought I'd make that observation. Yesterday I went home from college early - skipped off would probably be a better description - and went home to fall into bed. No, I haven't been staying out late and destroying my health in the ways usual to students. I'm just - tired.

I blame it on the trains. An hour standing upright in a packed and airless space coming and going is enough to sap the energy from anyone.

So I slept from 4pm to 8pm, woke up and remembered that I'd got S. M. Stirling's The Protector's War (I very nearly wrote The Protector's Wart for that) and Karen Traviss' (karentraviss) The World Before from Amazon.com the day before. Read from 8 till 11. Protector's War is a good book, though I had some issues with the structure and the pacing. Dies the Fire, Stirling's previous offering, was an order of magnitude better.

My current reading, now, is John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art and Architecture, Kevin Green, An introduction to Archaeology, Fernand Braudel, A Brief History of the Ancient Meditteranean, Charles Coleman Finlay's The Prodigal Troll, Karen Traviss' The World Before, Oswyn Murray, Ancient Greece, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (French and English). Most of them are really good (yes, I'm reading them simultaneously. But that's just because they won't all fit into my backpack).

Spot the odd one out, anybody?