Yup, the students are back

Wandering around campus this lunchtime, I was accosted by someone wanting to know if I was registered to vote in Pima County (no, and as I'm not a citizen it would be highly illegal if I was), and someone else, apparently an overseas student, who wanted me to explain one of the words in his book for him.

The Mexican restaurant in the Union has added sauteed fresh veggies to its repertoire of sides, which previously consisted of beans and rice.


And it rained this evening, though not with any great enthusiasm.

Now to see if I can achieve wordcount this evening ....

625 words

One and a half videophone conversations, mostly.

In other writing-related news, I've been rereading some of my old stuff again, and wondering what led me to certain choices in the rewriting phase. There's a minor character from The Admiral's Lady who didn't make it into the final version; I can more or less see why (I was trying to be ruthless about dropping unnecessary stuff, and her main scene just slowed the story down even though it was the only scene containing the title phrase), but the trouble is that she still exists in my head -- and turns up in some of the sequel stories too.