Must I wait, must I follow?
Feb. 7th, 2007 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbYesterday, instead of doing the work I was supposed to be doing, I wrote 2K words of short story and read a Kim Harrison novel (A Fistful of Charms) between my lectures. Today, after discovering my 1700 hours lecture was Not Happening (can we say 'Hurrah!'?), I came home and slept. For four hours.
I could blame the weather, since it's finally become cold - snow is a possibility tonight* - but really, I think it's the laziness factor kicking in. It's been dark and damp for five months now and I want a holiday. Preferably somewhere warm.
Barring that, a week off to read books and huddle under the covers would be nice. But, you know, tough luck. The world still stubbornly refuses to arrange itself for my convenience, but I haven't given up hoping yet.
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Dear body,
Eating, sleeping, and exercising on schedule are not optional requirements. Please fulfil your contractual obligations in a prompt and organised manner, or the Management will be forced to take Measures.
Yours,
the rest of me.
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Memo to: brain
From: Mgmt.
Rediscover willpower ASAP. Thank you.
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Fiction 19, Book 20: Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms.
Fourth book about witch Rachel Morgan, in a setting where witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies, fairies and various other supernatural sorts are an acknowledged, if not universally accepted, part of society.
Rachel Morgan's ex-boyfriend is in trouble. Cue rescue, with complications.
Fast-paced, well-characterised, does not (thankfully) use urban fantasy tropes to the point of cliché - and unlike certain other authors I will refrain from mentioning by name, does not substitute Pointless Sex for Plot - and unexpectedly funny in parts. The other characters in this series are slowly becoming more fleshed-out - I read the first three after the 2005 Worldcon, so my memory might be lacking - particularly Ivy and Jenks, and I'm interested to see what's coming next.
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*Will the country come to a standstill for half a centimetre of snow?** Find out tomorrow!
**I hope it does, but I don't think I believe in snow anymore. Been lied to before, you understand.
I could blame the weather, since it's finally become cold - snow is a possibility tonight* - but really, I think it's the laziness factor kicking in. It's been dark and damp for five months now and I want a holiday. Preferably somewhere warm.
Barring that, a week off to read books and huddle under the covers would be nice. But, you know, tough luck. The world still stubbornly refuses to arrange itself for my convenience, but I haven't given up hoping yet.
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Dear body,
Eating, sleeping, and exercising on schedule are not optional requirements. Please fulfil your contractual obligations in a prompt and organised manner, or the Management will be forced to take Measures.
Yours,
the rest of me.
+
Memo to: brain
From: Mgmt.
Rediscover willpower ASAP. Thank you.
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Fiction 19, Book 20: Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms.
Fourth book about witch Rachel Morgan, in a setting where witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies, fairies and various other supernatural sorts are an acknowledged, if not universally accepted, part of society.
Rachel Morgan's ex-boyfriend is in trouble. Cue rescue, with complications.
Fast-paced, well-characterised, does not (thankfully) use urban fantasy tropes to the point of cliché - and unlike certain other authors I will refrain from mentioning by name, does not substitute Pointless Sex for Plot - and unexpectedly funny in parts. The other characters in this series are slowly becoming more fleshed-out - I read the first three after the 2005 Worldcon, so my memory might be lacking - particularly Ivy and Jenks, and I'm interested to see what's coming next.
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*Will the country come to a standstill for half a centimetre of snow?** Find out tomorrow!
**I hope it does, but I don't think I believe in snow anymore. Been lied to before, you understand.
