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alfvaenI just got back from the LJ meetup, so I suppose I should post something.
I got a cold from Simon & Luke for Father's Day. They had been sniffling and sneezing for a few days last week, and mine came out of incubation on Sunday. I stayed home Monday, but went in Tuesday. I usually stay home for the sore-throat phase of the cold, which I always get first, but in the runny-nose and cough phases I'm okay to leave the house. Even though I'm more contagious then, I know.
Normally I feel worst in the morning, and by about 3:00-4:00 PM I'm feeling fine, but that was my lowest ebb on Monday, for some reason. Of course, I had trouble sleeping on Sunday night, with post-nasal drip galore.
But I still went to the meetup tonight. I was going back and forth all day, but in the end I went. I'd gone to one some months ago, and had been trying to find a good time to get back every since. There was always something conflicting, though. This time, everything was clear, and I didn't want to wait another month.
Some of the people I was hoping would be there weren't--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snugsbug, clintono, 1istener--but ayrsayle showed up, at least, and the other people there(whose IDs I have already forgotten, if I was introduced at all)were mostly pretty cool. There was one annoying guy, and I'm sure if he reads this he'll know who he is and probably agree, because he was trying pretty hard. I left at 10:00, just when the Monty Python references were flying fast and furious. I wished I could've had longer to chat with ayrsayle, but he's promised to comment more if I promise to post more. We'll see how that works. I tend to store things up and post bigger things less frequently.
In the Aurora reading, I have finished The Better Part of Valour, which was okay, pretty good for military SF, but perhaps not award caliber. I've managed to start The Peshawar Lancers, but I'm not very far into it yet. Sadly, despite my desire to get a lot of these Aurora-eligible books read before the nomination deadline, I've picked up some distractions. First of them was Monty Python Speaks!, which I grabbed off the nonfiction shelves at the library last time we were in. So I'll probably have to finish that before I get too much further in Peshawar. And we went to a sale at Book Traders on the weekend, ending up with a bunch of books, including The Dragons of Eden and Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan. But I will try to hold off on those.
I don't have as much of a system for reading nonfiction books as I do for fiction. I don't keep track of them at all, for some reason, even though I've been tracking the fiction books I've read for over twelve years now. Maybe it's because I don't want my records to show me reading more than one book at a time, or perhaps it's because I'm more likely to put down a nonfiction book partway through and not finish it, or finish it much later. But often I like the change of pace, and I don't read two fiction books at once(unless one of them is one of Nicole's manuscripts, I suppose, or another one from the Cult of Pain).
I've noticed that my last lyrics quiz hasn't engendered much response. I can think of a number of potential reasons for this: they're too hard/obscure this time; people are too busy to stay caught up; most people reading my journal don't know much about music; you're tired of them and hope that I'll stop posting them if you stop guessing. It isn't as rewarding to post them if nobody guesses, though the last few I mostly put together for the fun of it. But maybe once a week is too often. I could try once ever seven posts, which would certainly be less often than a week... But please, if you haven't already, check out the quiz, and/or comment here on the above issue. (I thought of doing a poll, but that would be a little bit too silly.)
I don't really have a good ending here.
I got a cold from Simon & Luke for Father's Day. They had been sniffling and sneezing for a few days last week, and mine came out of incubation on Sunday. I stayed home Monday, but went in Tuesday. I usually stay home for the sore-throat phase of the cold, which I always get first, but in the runny-nose and cough phases I'm okay to leave the house. Even though I'm more contagious then, I know.
Normally I feel worst in the morning, and by about 3:00-4:00 PM I'm feeling fine, but that was my lowest ebb on Monday, for some reason. Of course, I had trouble sleeping on Sunday night, with post-nasal drip galore.
But I still went to the meetup tonight. I was going back and forth all day, but in the end I went. I'd gone to one some months ago, and had been trying to find a good time to get back every since. There was always something conflicting, though. This time, everything was clear, and I didn't want to wait another month.
Some of the people I was hoping would be there weren't--
snugsbug, clintono, 1istener--but ayrsayle showed up, at least, and the other people there(whose IDs I have already forgotten, if I was introduced at all)were mostly pretty cool. There was one annoying guy, and I'm sure if he reads this he'll know who he is and probably agree, because he was trying pretty hard. I left at 10:00, just when the Monty Python references were flying fast and furious. I wished I could've had longer to chat with ayrsayle, but he's promised to comment more if I promise to post more. We'll see how that works. I tend to store things up and post bigger things less frequently.In the Aurora reading, I have finished The Better Part of Valour, which was okay, pretty good for military SF, but perhaps not award caliber. I've managed to start The Peshawar Lancers, but I'm not very far into it yet. Sadly, despite my desire to get a lot of these Aurora-eligible books read before the nomination deadline, I've picked up some distractions. First of them was Monty Python Speaks!, which I grabbed off the nonfiction shelves at the library last time we were in. So I'll probably have to finish that before I get too much further in Peshawar. And we went to a sale at Book Traders on the weekend, ending up with a bunch of books, including The Dragons of Eden and Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan. But I will try to hold off on those.
I don't have as much of a system for reading nonfiction books as I do for fiction. I don't keep track of them at all, for some reason, even though I've been tracking the fiction books I've read for over twelve years now. Maybe it's because I don't want my records to show me reading more than one book at a time, or perhaps it's because I'm more likely to put down a nonfiction book partway through and not finish it, or finish it much later. But often I like the change of pace, and I don't read two fiction books at once(unless one of them is one of Nicole's manuscripts, I suppose, or another one from the Cult of Pain).
I've noticed that my last lyrics quiz hasn't engendered much response. I can think of a number of potential reasons for this: they're too hard/obscure this time; people are too busy to stay caught up; most people reading my journal don't know much about music; you're tired of them and hope that I'll stop posting them if you stop guessing. It isn't as rewarding to post them if nobody guesses, though the last few I mostly put together for the fun of it. But maybe once a week is too often. I could try once ever seven posts, which would certainly be less often than a week... But please, if you haven't already, check out the quiz, and/or comment here on the above issue. (I thought of doing a poll, but that would be a little bit too silly.)
I don't really have a good ending here.
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Date: 2004-06-23 08:41 pm (UTC)Not unless you were the one who went on and on about "sheep-shagging". I think he had more facial hair than that picture.