pretty good day, all in all

[derien]

Double plus good - I got a card from daegaer! :) It has Crawford playing with a bocce ball. :)

Also good - Today was the last day of the Boring Detail. Which, however, IS actually better than working at the checkpoint. Tomorrow Mainertoo has said he will detail me in baggage so I can teach him stuff, so my mini-vaca is over but at least it's an easing back into work.

Another good - ElvenGirl showed up at the Boring Detail, because I was working with CeeJay and, in fact, he'd just sort of brought her in the car, figuring he could let her have the car and I would bring him back to Portland. It was nice to visit with ElvenGirl a bit and talk Pratchett books. :)

Yet Another good - I got Chapter Five posted this morning, so I'm still not late on any chapters and I'm five months into it. Of course now I'm running out of pre-written stuff and am really going to have to work. *is scared*

I started "Swallows and Amazons" yesterday, but it was going slowly and then eor finished "The Maltese Falcon" and I wanted to discuss it with him because of the cryptic non-spoilery things he said in his review, so I started that as well.

I did, however, finish "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green," by Cuthbert Bede, yesterday, so that makes book #23.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! Sorry about the bad language on the card, it just seemed like an appropriate sort of quote for Schwarz :-) Man, I could not resist making a Schwarz set when Moo arrived on LJ.

(Also, I must read your fic in one big chunk now that I can - my life has been sheer work hell for over a month and my brain has been mushily full of nothing but spreadsheets).

[derien.livejournal.com]

No appologies necessary -

The quote on the card is quite funny, and very appropriate, and somehow immediately made me imagine that must be an exploding bocce ball. :)

And I know your life has been work hell and misery - I wouldn't have wanted to add to your load. Whenever. Sometime I remind myself that the nice thing about the work I do is it's usually within very set times, and when I go home I don't have to think about it.

[littleredhead.livejournal.com]

(first of probably several responses as I am just starting to catch up from vacation!)

did you know that the Swallows books are the ones I've been collecting for 16 or so years now and finally gave up on serendipity and ordered the last 6 for a birthday present to myself? so when you get into them, if you want to borrow any, you are welcome to - I have 1940's editions of S&A and Swallowdale, but the modern (much less fragile) paperbacks of the others. I haven't finished the series yet as I keep reading (and finishing!) other books - for which I do think at least partial credit goes to you and Matt - I got re-inspired to read from all our great dinner conversations.

(though, caveat lecteur - these are not the type of british "children's" lit that you posted the excerpt from a few weeks ago. ;) I don't honestly know if I've ever read more wholesome books (and liked them!))