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May. 18th, 2011 02:29 pm...and just as I was about to go run some of the errands I've been putting off since Monday (or earlier), the heavens opened. So hello, Livejournal!
What is new with me: my new job (really, the same job, but in a new place) is in fact not as scary as I had feared. I am still not entirely sure who is responsible for hooking up my telephone, but that is mostly because I have not bothered to chase that information down -- the entire university functions on email anyway.
I have finally joined facebook, which is interesting, and at first I found it quite difficult to figure out. I am kind of fascinated by the way that "adding new friends" appears to be more or less the point of the whole exercise, but I have to admit that it's kind of great to find certain people again.
Yes, it has just turned 2002 around here. Why do you ask?
I've also been re-reading To Say Nothing of the Dog, because -- well, actually, who needs a reason? It remains as enjoyable as ever, although I remain moderately confused by Willis' Oxford. I also find myself more and more interested in the "present" of the time-travel universe, or perhaps its past: the Pandemic, the bombing of St Paul's, the technological bifurcation which means that they don't have online archives. Is this material ever dealt with? I feel that logically the Pandemic must be relevant to The Doomsday Book, but I don't remember it that well, and our copy is in a box "somewhere in the garage." I wish I felt confident that Willis had thought all this through, but I suspect not. Or does it come up somewhere in her short stories?
I rather like the way the continuum works as Providence, as well -- despite the logical and historical problems that entails. I'd say more about that, if I knew what I meant to say, and if I had more time.
What is new with me: my new job (really, the same job, but in a new place) is in fact not as scary as I had feared. I am still not entirely sure who is responsible for hooking up my telephone, but that is mostly because I have not bothered to chase that information down -- the entire university functions on email anyway.
I have finally joined facebook, which is interesting, and at first I found it quite difficult to figure out. I am kind of fascinated by the way that "adding new friends" appears to be more or less the point of the whole exercise, but I have to admit that it's kind of great to find certain people again.
Yes, it has just turned 2002 around here. Why do you ask?
I've also been re-reading To Say Nothing of the Dog, because -- well, actually, who needs a reason? It remains as enjoyable as ever, although I remain moderately confused by Willis' Oxford. I also find myself more and more interested in the "present" of the time-travel universe, or perhaps its past: the Pandemic, the bombing of St Paul's, the technological bifurcation which means that they don't have online archives. Is this material ever dealt with? I feel that logically the Pandemic must be relevant to The Doomsday Book, but I don't remember it that well, and our copy is in a box "somewhere in the garage." I wish I felt confident that Willis had thought all this through, but I suspect not. Or does it come up somewhere in her short stories?
I rather like the way the continuum works as Providence, as well -- despite the logical and historical problems that entails. I'd say more about that, if I knew what I meant to say, and if I had more time.
