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Officially registered for FLOO!
May. 7th, 2007 08:37 amI've been wavering on this because of the financial mess from the pet surgery, root canal that wasn't covered by insurance, and the several months of no-housemate, but finally decided I'd be unhappy enough to miss it, and these events happen rarely enough (about every five years), that it's worth the relatively small amount of additional debt in order to make it. This is one of the two types of Kenyon reunions I attend; I don't bother with my class year reunions, but the Peep Reunions and the FLOO reunions are generally guaranteed fabulous times, and a chance to see friends I haven't in too long. I haven't missed one yet -- I've been to both Peep Reunions and the previous FLOO Reunion.
It was a pretty busy weekend, all 'round. I escorted Saturday morning, J came by for a good chunk of the afternoon, and then I went to Casey's party Saturday night. Sunday was mostly taken up with breakfast and a trip to the Botanical Gardens with my folks, who were briefly in town, followed by a bit of yardwork in preparation for fixing our back fence. It was very good to see Mom and Dad; they seem to be doing well now, even with the stress of Cousin Jim being in the hospital and looking like he's heading in dangerously non-compliant directions now that he's conscious again (they came here from DC, where they were seeing Jim and participating in a clergy conference).
I did, however, find time to watch both The Claws of Axos and The Three Doctors (although I accidentally watched them in reverse order, so I was a bit puzzled when the Doctor was still restricted to Earth in The Claws of Axos). I'm still thoroughly enamored of Jon Pertwee in the role, but I have to say that The Three Doctors did a great deal to help develop a greater fondness for Patrick Troughton's Doctor.
And I finished up one of the two books![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calebbullen was so thoughtful to send -- The Deathless was a lovely bit of Buffy escapism, and I'm really looking forward to starting Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide To Drugs. Right now, though, I'm just beginning Indistinguishable From Magic, which is turning out to be a very pleasant surprise. I grabbed it at a used bookstore because I'm very fond of Robert Forward's science fiction (he's very hard SF, a physicist by trade, and even his fiction has appendices). He was not an overwhelmingly prolific writer, though, and most of his stuff is out of print, so I pick up whatever of his I can find when I can find it, and I bought this without so much as reading the back cover (Casey and I stopped for middle eastern food and used bookstore browsing on the way home from escorting). It turns out to be a collections of essays and fiction, pairing explanations of real technology and advances in physics with stories that illustrate the points of the essays. I just started it this morning, but so far I'm excited about it.
It was a pretty busy weekend, all 'round. I escorted Saturday morning, J came by for a good chunk of the afternoon, and then I went to Casey's party Saturday night. Sunday was mostly taken up with breakfast and a trip to the Botanical Gardens with my folks, who were briefly in town, followed by a bit of yardwork in preparation for fixing our back fence. It was very good to see Mom and Dad; they seem to be doing well now, even with the stress of Cousin Jim being in the hospital and looking like he's heading in dangerously non-compliant directions now that he's conscious again (they came here from DC, where they were seeing Jim and participating in a clergy conference).
I did, however, find time to watch both The Claws of Axos and The Three Doctors (although I accidentally watched them in reverse order, so I was a bit puzzled when the Doctor was still restricted to Earth in The Claws of Axos). I'm still thoroughly enamored of Jon Pertwee in the role, but I have to say that The Three Doctors did a great deal to help develop a greater fondness for Patrick Troughton's Doctor.
And I finished up one of the two books
calebbullen was so thoughtful to send -- The Deathless was a lovely bit of Buffy escapism, and I'm really looking forward to starting Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide To Drugs. Right now, though, I'm just beginning Indistinguishable From Magic, which is turning out to be a very pleasant surprise. I grabbed it at a used bookstore because I'm very fond of Robert Forward's science fiction (he's very hard SF, a physicist by trade, and even his fiction has appendices). He was not an overwhelmingly prolific writer, though, and most of his stuff is out of print, so I pick up whatever of his I can find when I can find it, and I bought this without so much as reading the back cover (Casey and I stopped for middle eastern food and used bookstore browsing on the way home from escorting). It turns out to be a collections of essays and fiction, pairing explanations of real technology and advances in physics with stories that illustrate the points of the essays. I just started it this morning, but so far I'm excited about it.
