Happy birthday!

A belated Happy Birthday to groundctrl, who was yesterday, and a today Happy Birthday to soda_and_capes: I hope you both are/did have great days, and spoil yourselves rotten. You are both in that class of some of the nicest people I've ever met, and deserve all the best! :)

Book #6

6) "Making History" - Stephen Fry.

I freakin' adored this book all the way through. Okay, it was a little goofy every now and then, but the writing was good and it was just so darned much FUN.

There were a couple of points that I didn't adore: 1) When he suddenly switched to writing in movie screenplay mode, which for me really makes me feel removed from the action, and he did it in a couple of the best actiony parts of the book. I know the point was that the main character loved movies and was feeling as though he were in a movie at those points, but urgh. 2) A couple of points where he got maybe a little too clever for his own good, and I think his editor failed to give him feedback to keep him in line. (Maybe they'd have made him re-write the movie script parts.)

I've got to say, though, I've read numerous stories and seen a couple of shows with with the same premise, and this was the first one I really liked. It's all in how it's done. The publishers carefully keep the premise secret - no plot spoilers on the cover. And I think that's good, to give people a chance to get sucked in without saying, "Oh, this is another one of those stories?" and getting set against it.

I really want to crow about the ending, but that would be spoilery. I liked the end. :) Okay, damn it, ( I'm just going to say SPOILER )

And the conclusion of teaching week...

My third and last student passed his test with a perfect score.

Okay, yeah, I know I got the smart students, I was lucky. Afternoon shift people are just smarter than morning shift people, it's a fact of life. It's because not getting enough sleep kills brain cells. (Yes I'm full of bullshit, as far as I know - that's just the sort of thing we'll say to taunt each other at work. ;))

But I do wish I could tell Mr. Rock Collector. For some reason which I can't fathom, the Supervisor who conducted the testing declined to inform my student that he got a perfect score, so I can't tell the Rock Collector because he babbles everything. But he goes on and on about how HE got the first perfect score and he's only ever heard of one other person getting it. Maybe I'll just tease him by saying that I know that someone else got a perfect score but that I can't tell him who it was. >;>