Autumn. Damnit.

[hawkwing_lb]

I do not mind autumn. I quite like autumn. I merely find it objectionable that part of autumn involves it pissing down rain from clouds the colour of ashes all freaking day.

Apart from that pernicious annoyance, it was a pretty good day. My tiny cheque from the college travel grants people arrived and was promptly assigned away - although I held onto enough to make a pleasant sidetrip to the bookshop - and I posted off the forms that assure me of government-funded GP and pharmaceutical care for the next little while. (Bureaucracy, man. The wheels of government grind slow and fine, but at least they mostly don't chew you up.) I got a couple more pages of Le culte d'Isis read, too.

And climbing was good. I've identified a couple-three projects - alleged 6As - and climbed more smoothly the 5 and two of the 6As I did on Saturday. I mean to try a couple of interesting-looking 6Bs when I'm still reasonably fresh tomorrow.

I will talk about the books later. Now, I rest.

Comments

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

"I merely find it objectionable that part of autumn involves it pissing down rain from clouds the colour of ashes all freaking day."

I hear ya: This would be a huge part of why I dropped out of grad school the first time around: the school was in Oregon, where every day is like this. Except for the occassional day in summer.

Also, why I was so much moodier during the year I studied in Bristol. It wasn't quite *every* day that was like that, but it often felt that way to this California girl.

"- although I held onto enough to make a pleasant sidetrip to the bookshop -"

that's enough to make any day brighter :)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm used to clouds. Persistent rain, however, is much more annoying than occasional showers. Because when you get wet you stay wet. Showers, at least you can dry out in between.

Bristol? From California?

Damn, that's... some change of climate.

that's enough to make any day brighter :)

Yep. stillsostrange's The Drowning City - which is excellent, btw - Suzanne Collins' new YA, which is also excellent, and the new Kat Richardson and the new Mike Carey, which I realised I'd better save for a different rainy day. :)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Bugger. I screwed up the html, didn't I?

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

oh, well, apparently I did too.

Plus, now I think I know how to do that lj user thing. (I've been wondering how that was done, but have been too lazy to look it up.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

That was how I learned. :)

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

Persistent rain, however, is much more annoying than occasional showers. Because when you get wet you stay wet.

That, I do agree with. Although, having grown up in practially a desert, I still have a tendancy to want to start dancing any time it starts raining. But only when it starts raining.

Plus, I do prefer actual drizzling over what would happen quite often in Bristol, which I refered to as "spitting." (because you can't possibly call it drizzling when the raindrops are that big and that rare.)

Damn, that's... some change of climate.

HA! First I moved from SoCal - inland SoCal mind you, which is closer to Las Vegas than LA in terms of weather most days - to western Massachussets. THEN I studied in Bristol for a year. Came back to MA for my last year. (All the while coming back to SoCal for summer vacations.) then I moved to Oregon for grad school. Then I moved back to SoCal.

And now I really, really, want to move to Colorado or back to New England. (England itself - and the rest of the UK - would be nice too, but my family would be too far away.)

Yep. stillsostrange's The Drowning City - which is excellent, btw - Suzanne Collins' new YA, which is also excellent, and the new Kat Richardson and the new Mike Carey, which I realised I'd better save for a different rainy day. :)

ack! do not need more books for my tbr pile! :p I still have an unread ACR of The Hunger Games. *headdesk*

(adds them to list anyway)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Spitting. Yep. We call it that, too.

You've been around the continent a time or two, then. :)

The Hunger Games is made of win. Seriously. Really strong first-person narrative, and futuristic-style gladiatorial games with extra added totalitarian state, always hit my fiction kinks. *g*