TGIThBr

And Thanksgiving break week begins. (Well, technically, it's next week, but this is the weekend before, so....) I had to go onto campus today to meet with a student, but that went quickly, and I headed home after less than an hour. A grocery stop, and home; and to my delight there were three boxes on my doorstep, containing the various items I ordered from Amazon last Saturday. I've already plunged into Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. I'm still in the chapters Lois read at RenoVation, but I'm already noticing goodnesses I don't recall from the reading.

One oddity: my copy of CVA arrived without a dust jacket - just an unadorned, dark-blue-bound, hardcover book. I wonder if this is in any way tied to the SNAFU that had Amazon suspend sales of the book earlier in the week? Oh, well - I didn't buy it for the cover art (although I did think that was included in the price).

Looks like I'll have things to do over the break, besides the things I'd already planned....

A Puzzlement

Where did the meme of mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon come from? (I mean, specifically Napoleon, as opposed to some other famous or powerful person.)

(This question came as the terminus of a mental track featuring Alfred E. Napoleon and the question of how to translate "What, Me Worry?" into French....)