What I'm Reading...

I've decided, now that I actually have *hgasp* a spare hour in the week, I'm going to get back on the regular reading-for-pleasure-and-mental-expansion thing. And I'm going to inflict it on you, too.

Currently re-reading Lois Bujold's CURSE OF CHALION, which I read in manuscript form, got the hardcover, and never had a chance to read in final form. Only doing a chapter here and a chapter there, though, since I remember what happens and can take my time.

Also reading WHAT'S NEXT? Women Redefining their Dreams in the Prime of Life, by Rena Pederson. A little too faith-based for my comfort, but interesting nonetheless. I had picked it up a year or so ago, when I first started to think a change was coming into my life, but couldn't quite bring myself to start reading until the change occured. Did you guys know that Julia Child didn't take her first cooking class until she was my age (36)? I mean, she cooked before then, of course, but...

Was going to start another book this weekend, but think shovelling will be using that spare hour and then some...

Philcon panelling

So much for a slow-paced, leisurely Philcon... *grin*


Fri 10:00 pm People Eating People ("mooom! There's nothing for dinner!")
Sat 11:00 am Care and Feeding of the "Monkey Mind"
Sat 12:00 pm Arrgh Matey - Pirates as Heroes
Sat 2:00 pm Media Tie-Ins, Novelizations, and Franchises
Sat 4:00 pm Writers Living Amongst the Normals
Sun 12:00 pm The Anthology I've Always Wanted to Edit
Sun 2:00 pm When Should an Author Self-publish? (oh, that's a gonna be fun)

The Blizzard of Autumn '03

Peter: "No, you did all the shoveling yesterday (when he had to go into the office), I can handle this round of shoveling, should only be a few more inches."

Me: "uh-huh."

40 minutes later he was only halfway down the driveway and I took pity and went out there to help him. Six inches since we shoveled this morning, at least. And it's still coming down, although not quite as heavily. Reports from Newark
Airport (our closest formal reporting area) were at 12" at 1 this afternoon.

By the time it's all said and done, I'm guestimating 16"-18" total for the storm. May go higher, though.

Mind you, I don't mind shoveling. Neither does he, really. Otherwise we'd be using the old (very old) snowblower my folks gave us, or have broken down and bought a new one. And this is a light powdery snow that makes me long for the days when I could ski. But three maybe four storms like
this a winter is all I can take, and having the first one this early does not bode well...

(or, this could be the last and only snow we get all winter. Who knows?)

In the meanwhile, everything is dark and white and almost unbearably beautiful, with only the illuminated toy soldier on our neighbor's lawn for color. Wish I had a camera that could take a proper night-time photograph to share
it with y'all.