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But not with columns. I've got nothing like the ability to do columns...
So, already confused if that A is for Awesome or Awful, and B for Brilliant or Badbadbad...
- I had a cyst under my arm about two years ago, which happened to get infected just when I was at the dermatologist for a somewhat dodgy thing on my face. (Good timing.) Had it removed - a very minor proceedure that turned more unpleasant than I'd expected (or even than the consultant had expected).
It came back - almost before it had healed, but sat there innocuously until Saturday morning, when it was suddenly tender. Much more tender Sunday, so remembering that the doc had said they can get really nasty quite quickly, I went to after-hours service instead of waiting till today. Now on antibiotic, still with very tender arm-pit, and looking at another removal. Yay. (All in the Awful or Bad column, and that 'yay' is sarcastic.)
I now have not only an appointment with the consultant, but one with the dentist. The little bit from column whatever about the latter is that when I (literally) lose sleep over that, I can at least say that I've conquered my phobia enough to make the damn appointment. And maybe I'll find drugs before then.
Anyway, while in Dun Laoghaire for a perfectly legitimate medical visit, I mosied on down to the local bookshop, fingers crossed that the Catherine Fisher (not officially released until 2 May, remember) just might be there, and it was! Oh yes. While I was there, I fell to Percy Jackson & the Titan's Curse as well, which I'd had in my hand and put back last time in a Dun Laoghaire bookshop... This was All Good: new Catherine Fisher, before I'd real hope of getting it and I had no guilt about a trip into town to look for it. Only a little guilt for purchasing the Percy Jackson, which I could have waited for. But, hey - got to support those writers!
Felt really quite ill by the time I got home, which provided a good excuse for lying down for an hour and starting Incarceron. And it's really good so far! I'm so not going to get into a lengthy discussion of the boundaries between science fiction and fantasy, but this is one of the CFs which plays interestingly with them, wherever one decides they are. For now, I'm thinking science fiction with a rather fantasy sensibility, but it could easily change.
It's alternating chapters, with initially unassociated characters, whose connection is becoming increasingly obvious, and I had great fun with this: imagine a book which did this - dropped hints so the playing-along reader was spotting the increasingly strong connection between the two disparate stories, and then at the end - they turned out to be a totally random set of characters and events! Well, it amused me (and even O.D., who kept saying 'I'm losing interest.... I'm really losing interest.' Until I told her the random bit, which she did like).
And in the All Good (except for the finger-crossing): MotherReader has announced the Second Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge. If I were a sensible, rational sort, I'd say that my last year's experience (then 82-year-old mother just home from the States, where she'd had a Heart Event - of the probably Attack sort - came down with a violent stomach bug the Friday night of the weekend, requiring nursing, and then I got it from her) would guarantee nothing could go wrong this year.... Yup. I'm not that type at all, so I'll say that fingers crossed, touching wood and definitely doing the Witchy Dance for Luck, I'm in. Unless something comes up. Oooh - at least I can have good clean anticipatory fun with the mental stock-piling of books for the Challenge...
So, already confused if that A is for Awesome or Awful, and B for Brilliant or Badbadbad...
- I had a cyst under my arm about two years ago, which happened to get infected just when I was at the dermatologist for a somewhat dodgy thing on my face. (Good timing.) Had it removed - a very minor proceedure that turned more unpleasant than I'd expected (or even than the consultant had expected).
It came back - almost before it had healed, but sat there innocuously until Saturday morning, when it was suddenly tender. Much more tender Sunday, so remembering that the doc had said they can get really nasty quite quickly, I went to after-hours service instead of waiting till today. Now on antibiotic, still with very tender arm-pit, and looking at another removal. Yay. (All in the Awful or Bad column, and that 'yay' is sarcastic.)
I now have not only an appointment with the consultant, but one with the dentist. The little bit from column whatever about the latter is that when I (literally) lose sleep over that, I can at least say that I've conquered my phobia enough to make the damn appointment. And maybe I'll find drugs before then.
Anyway, while in Dun Laoghaire for a perfectly legitimate medical visit, I mosied on down to the local bookshop, fingers crossed that the Catherine Fisher (not officially released until 2 May, remember) just might be there, and it was! Oh yes. While I was there, I fell to Percy Jackson & the Titan's Curse as well, which I'd had in my hand and put back last time in a Dun Laoghaire bookshop... This was All Good: new Catherine Fisher, before I'd real hope of getting it and I had no guilt about a trip into town to look for it. Only a little guilt for purchasing the Percy Jackson, which I could have waited for. But, hey - got to support those writers!
Felt really quite ill by the time I got home, which provided a good excuse for lying down for an hour and starting Incarceron. And it's really good so far! I'm so not going to get into a lengthy discussion of the boundaries between science fiction and fantasy, but this is one of the CFs which plays interestingly with them, wherever one decides they are. For now, I'm thinking science fiction with a rather fantasy sensibility, but it could easily change.
It's alternating chapters, with initially unassociated characters, whose connection is becoming increasingly obvious, and I had great fun with this: imagine a book which did this - dropped hints so the playing-along reader was spotting the increasingly strong connection between the two disparate stories, and then at the end - they turned out to be a totally random set of characters and events! Well, it amused me (and even O.D., who kept saying 'I'm losing interest.... I'm really losing interest.' Until I told her the random bit, which she did like).
And in the All Good (except for the finger-crossing): MotherReader has announced the Second Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge. If I were a sensible, rational sort, I'd say that my last year's experience (then 82-year-old mother just home from the States, where she'd had a Heart Event - of the probably Attack sort - came down with a violent stomach bug the Friday night of the weekend, requiring nursing, and then I got it from her) would guarantee nothing could go wrong this year.... Yup. I'm not that type at all, so I'll say that fingers crossed, touching wood and definitely doing the Witchy Dance for Luck, I'm in. Unless something comes up. Oooh - at least I can have good clean anticipatory fun with the mental stock-piling of books for the Challenge...
