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Spring!
I woke with my head stuffy from pollen and migraine, but mostly my day’s been nice. I have the feedback now from my latest NIH proposal review; they mostly really liked my project, it seems. Then I was briefly at my office, where I gave a co-worker a pep-talk about writing papers, along with some practical tips, and she gave me strawberries and sections of tangerine. I had to drive D. downtown to play Magic, then J. and I went on a walk from his apartment, south along Amazon Creek, in the sunshine. Later we had a small picnic in my front-door yard, although it was then evening and only 46̊... Now I’m waiting for Friday Night Magic to finish. D’s going to be in the top 8! He’s awfully hungry, though, having traded away his spare $6 for a Lifebane Zombie (that’s a Magic card) and a bottle of water. J. is generously going to retrieve him when the event’s done, although that won’t be until midnight or beyond.
Last night I finished reading The Tropic of Serpents, the sequel to A Natural History of Dragons – a different and congenial kind of science fiction. Imagine those 19th-century memoirs of European naturalists exploring the rest of the world, then imagine that one of them is a woman, and that the world includes a multitude of species of dragons. Fun! Then, just now, I read Thresholds, a book for middle-schoolers about oodles of types of aliens regularly visiting Earth, by one of D’s novelist mentors, Nina Kiriki Hoffman. It reminds me more of the Sarah Jane Adventures than Men in Black. I have the sequel on the table behind me – I know what I’ll be doing next.
Last night I finished reading The Tropic of Serpents, the sequel to A Natural History of Dragons – a different and congenial kind of science fiction. Imagine those 19th-century memoirs of European naturalists exploring the rest of the world, then imagine that one of them is a woman, and that the world includes a multitude of species of dragons. Fun! Then, just now, I read Thresholds, a book for middle-schoolers about oodles of types of aliens regularly visiting Earth, by one of D’s novelist mentors, Nina Kiriki Hoffman. It reminds me more of the Sarah Jane Adventures than Men in Black. I have the sequel on the table behind me – I know what I’ll be doing next.