le weekend

[freckles_and_doubt]

Things achieved this weekend:

• marking of the last few vampire essays (v. bad);
• one SCA event including singing (nice event, got bitten on the thumb by a candlestick, making it difficult to hold a pen; singing OK except for me, as this cold has given me a frog in my tonsils and then chased it backwards down my throat like a small dog down a rabbit hole);
• survival of one day of the random post-glandular exhaustion (yesterday);
• possibly not unrelated to said exhaustion, the reading of three Stephanie Plum novels (much fun of a guilty nature) and Scott Westerfield's Uglies (good, review to follow).

Things not achieved this weekend:

• the marking of the medieval romance essays, which I'd planned to have finished by tonight (not even started, although I note with pleasure that the top essay in the pile has chosen to compare Sir Launfal with Han Solo, there's hope for undergrads yet);
• anything more than a few guilty thoughts towards book updates;
• any more watching of Heroes, which is annoying as I'm a few episodes from the end and the suspense is killing me;
• anything much.

Obligatory Random Linkery: "The Life and Work of Godfrey Winton: A Panel Discussion on One of Science Fiction’s Lost Masters." A lovely exercise in deadpan, very similar in tone to my favourite piece of Lovecraftian nonsense, which I blogged about ages ago (and which, I now realise, I should have recalled when posting randomly about squirrels).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you like Stephanie Plum, you might like the Spellman Files even more. Or maybe not. They're really very, very different... but I like Izzy Spellman much better. She's more screwed up, in more interesting ways. Anyway, give it a go, it's a first novel and that shows, but terribly funny.

scroob

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

The persistent motif of Winton’s autobiographical discourse is self-inflation.
Heh. Loved every word.
I rarely follow your links as they eat up too much of my time. I'm glad I followed that one :)