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ellarienIt's been slightly hazy all day, and not quite as hot as one expects at this time of year. (The summer students have been heard to express disappointment at not getting the advertized sizzling heat.) There's a night-flowering cactus down the street from my office that looks as though it might open tonight; if we don't get a storm, I may try to go out really early and see if I can catch it in action. The bud is about six inches long, so the bloom ought to be spectacular.
McKillip's Od Magic is on its way to me, but it's not yet clear from where, and the estimated arrival date is the 20th of June, which seems excessive: it usually only takes ten days for mail to get here from the UK. I'm still waiting for Janny Wurts' Traitor's Knot; according to the Meisha Merlin newsgroup it does exist, but Amazon doesn't seem to have it yet. My usual mantra for dealing with this kind of frustration is that I have no shortage of things to read, but that is getting to be less true than it was, thanks to the success of Operation Backlog; I'm down to hardly more than 30 unread books in the house, and only about half of those are things that I actually want to read. If the Wurts doesn't turn up before I go home for the summer, I'll buy the UK paperback instead -- the mass-market one will be out by then!
I'm watching CNN as I type this, and they're doing a segment on the security of Mississipi shipping, complete with footage of this paddleboat.
McKillip's Od Magic is on its way to me, but it's not yet clear from where, and the estimated arrival date is the 20th of June, which seems excessive: it usually only takes ten days for mail to get here from the UK. I'm still waiting for Janny Wurts' Traitor's Knot; according to the Meisha Merlin newsgroup it does exist, but Amazon doesn't seem to have it yet. My usual mantra for dealing with this kind of frustration is that I have no shortage of things to read, but that is getting to be less true than it was, thanks to the success of Operation Backlog; I'm down to hardly more than 30 unread books in the house, and only about half of those are things that I actually want to read. If the Wurts doesn't turn up before I go home for the summer, I'll buy the UK paperback instead -- the mass-market one will be out by then!
I'm watching CNN as I type this, and they're doing a segment on the security of Mississipi shipping, complete with footage of this paddleboat.