Holiday

Jul. 1st, 2011 11:22 am
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With Monday being the Fourth, and with my having no classes on Fridays, I'm taking this as a four-day weekend. No major plans, except for taking Gracie to the groomer tomorrow and the usual filmfest - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, State of the Union, and 1776; I suppose I should settle on something to cook on Sunday, for the week's meals, but that can wait.

The stew did improve with time; the only problems are the need for flossing immediately after eating a bowl, and a spot of indigestion a bit later. There's about one more bowlful left.

I've begun reading Barfield's The Perilous Frontier; I've read the introduction and half the first chapter so far, and am already fascinated. I will have to offer some revisions to my post on the Great Wall, I can tell, but my main thesis in that post stands, I think. (The bus book before this one was The World That Made New Orleans, also very interesting. I may or may not review either or both.)

I'm making headway on the extended prisms problem, but a final resolution is still out of sight. I really need to finish up the first prisms paper and send it off, but it's always more fun to think about new stuff than to write up old.

After I dropped Buster off at the groomer last week, I paid a visit to Borders and picked up a few more books for summer reading. (I've only finished 47 books so far this year, which is a bit low, but I figure on getting a fair amount of light reading in the Dealer's Room in Reno next month, which should boost the total a bit.) Jim Butcher's Changes is finally out in paper, and lives up to the hype. The rest of the purchases were mostly continuations of series, but I did get a volume of poetry by Rilke, as well as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (recommended by [personal profile] mmegaera last year). I've blitzed through three of the books already - Changes, plus a Stephanie Plum mystery and the fourth Mercy Thompson book - and am now into Cherryh's Deceiver.

Lazy days ahead.
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