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Motivation...
Oct. 16th, 2006 07:30 amNot a whole lot going on this past weekend; catching up on lots of laundry, some housecleaning, some netflix and DVR stuff, escorting, dog walks and a library trip to pick up a new stack of books to read. Spent most of Sunday working on cataloging my SF/F collection on LibraryThing. I'm about halfway through; into the Ls. I'm enjoying the process a bit too much. Today I'm planning on catching up on LJ replies, email, and news articles, and maybe get a start making a list of "books missing from series", with the help of Fantastic Fiction, which is one of the main reasons for doing the cataloging to being with; I can never remember which book I actually need by the time I'm in a used bookstore or at a booksale.
I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, which I'm finding thoroughly amusing. It won me over with the included stickers in the front for punctuation correction on signs and storefronts. I distinctly recall discussions with V, while wandering around Chicago, of plans to become a guerrilla punctuation correction team for all the appallingly erroneous signage in her neighborhood, and I absolutely identify with the author's reference to involuntary shudders at misplaced apostrophes. I'm learning a lot from it, as well, especially regarding my own mixed history with the comma. Her explanation regarding the source of my confusion has definitely helped. Also, the distinctions between British punctuation and American punctuation are deeply interesting to me. Quite a number of my favorite children's books were British in origin, and the distinctions in punctuation use explain why various forms look equally "right" to me, and leave me fumbling for a decision as to which to use.
Still very depressed, although the book cataloging project is a useful distraction. I have a counseling appt tonight, which will be nice, and maybe somewhat useful (unfortunately, the depression is the least amenable to help from counseling, since it's down to "Yup, I know it's brain bullshit, I can identify it and rationally dismember the individual brainmice, but that doesn't change that it feels true and that feels sucky until it goes away again.") Also hoping for news on Fin soon, since she had to go into the ER last night, and they kept her overnight for observation.
I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, which I'm finding thoroughly amusing. It won me over with the included stickers in the front for punctuation correction on signs and storefronts. I distinctly recall discussions with V, while wandering around Chicago, of plans to become a guerrilla punctuation correction team for all the appallingly erroneous signage in her neighborhood, and I absolutely identify with the author's reference to involuntary shudders at misplaced apostrophes. I'm learning a lot from it, as well, especially regarding my own mixed history with the comma. Her explanation regarding the source of my confusion has definitely helped. Also, the distinctions between British punctuation and American punctuation are deeply interesting to me. Quite a number of my favorite children's books were British in origin, and the distinctions in punctuation use explain why various forms look equally "right" to me, and leave me fumbling for a decision as to which to use.
Still very depressed, although the book cataloging project is a useful distraction. I have a counseling appt tonight, which will be nice, and maybe somewhat useful (unfortunately, the depression is the least amenable to help from counseling, since it's down to "Yup, I know it's brain bullshit, I can identify it and rationally dismember the individual brainmice, but that doesn't change that it feels true and that feels sucky until it goes away again.") Also hoping for news on Fin soon, since she had to go into the ER last night, and they kept her overnight for observation.
