all and sundry, one and all

[hawkwing_lb]

Yesterday, I discovered the existence of the Hakluyt Society, dedicated to the promotion of studies in travel and exploration and the history thereof.

I said to myself, "Self, this is cool," and immediately resolved to share it with the rest of the internets.

(Their journal is available for free on their website. They fail to mention that Cambridge University Press is also reprinting the HS's First Series of books on travel and exploration as paperbacks. They are cool. I covet them. But we speak not of this.)

Anyway. I did not achieve anything of significant note today, except for a walk, and much-needed family time. I also caught up on Criminal Minds (which is too much in love with sexy death this year), and then found the day advanced to this point, where there is not much of today left of today.

How did this happen, that I should have so little time, and find it all so swift to disappear? I cannot possibly consider it fair.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

"too much in love with sexy death this year"

OH YES, thanks for putting it in words. I thought it might be me and my general unhappiness (plus Her Majesty's rapid decline) that was keeping me from enjoying it...but I just haven't really been excited by anything except JJ's last episode.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I rather liked episode eight, but no, they have not been On Form. Too much serial killer perspective, not enough victim agency. This was especially noticeable with the Stupid Rapist Boys, an episode in which I desired to stab all and sundry for giving me one moment - one! - in the strip club that was the opposite of sexy and really not bringing the same level of Strippers Are People Too to the scenes with the victims.

It was more like "Rapists Are People Too." "What About Teh Menz?"

*stabbity*

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Yes! And I didn't see any twitches from Reid in the middle of the cornfield. C'mon, he's coping, but surely not *that* well....

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yeah. However, Garcia? I love you forever, Madame Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia, goddess of Hot Pink win.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Garcia and the occasional moments of Hotchness are what's keeping me watching.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Prentiss also remains win-full. A little trigger-happy, maybe, but win-full.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

True. But I feel like there's been less of her this season.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Alas, yes.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Tra-lak, I do not need to covet them, for they are all in the Lit & Phil, tra-la. My first encounter with Ibn Battuta was through the HS edition of his travels...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...I hate you. Like a cat.

I bet you have the original series there, too. Not the paperbacks.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That would be a yup. *gloats*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...

(can I come visit?)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Any time. I will take you to the Lit & Phil and dump you there, and you will be no trouble to me at all. Occasionally I will manifest and take you out to the pub, and then deliver you safely back again, and all will be well and all will be well and...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

*plans for someday* :)