This postI read The Last Battle in a two-hour sitting last night. I’d forgotten how wonderful it is to sit down with a book and read it in one long draught, not in these intermittent gulps as I usually do. But then again, reading a book all at once is usually only possible with short books, or with medium-length books which have hot-knife-through-butter prose, and it depends on how large of a block of time you have. ~wistful sigh for the old days when I was a kid and could spend hours and hours reading~
Speaking of books, I’m now up to 753 in my personal collection, growing every few days. It’s almost like I have a subliminal goal to fill my apartment with books, to grow my own library as it were. And I dare say I’m getting closer to that goal. ;) (So far my roommates haven’t complained. If they do, I’ll unleash the tarantula on them.) (Just kidding. I’m scared to death of spiders.)
In other news, on Monday my boss came up with a few new deadlines, one of which was this afternoon (he’s presenting the database to an archive in Naples), and so the last couple of days have been hectic. But I got the stuff done. Now I’m on the last tight deadline for the week, writing some code to convert an Excel file to GEDCOM by Saturday or Monday. Which should be fairly straightforward and easy. And the deadline’s tight primarily because I was full of self-confidence at the time that it would only take seven or eight hours at most, so it’s my fault. But it’s an easy project and shouldn’t be too stressful. It’s just the culmination of everything. ~sigh~
Remember how I said I loathed holidays, back a few months ago? Right now I’m really looking forward to Thanksgiving break. All this stress has been building up, day after day, and not without ill effect either. Oh well. That’s life. R&R is on its way.
