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Oct. 4th, 2004 10:59 pmSuddenly it's cold. I wished I had worn gloves today. Looks as if the shortsleeve weather is over: it's jackets, sweaters and mufflers for me tomorrow.
A busy day. especially at work. I woke up at 5.30 this morning and read the rest of Rubicon by Steven Saylor, finishing it just before my alarm went off at 7. I think Rubicon is his best plot yet. I had to make a trip to the Main Branch of the library up on Metcalfe Street to get the next in the series, but I was too impatient to wait for it to be delivered to me at the Rideau Branch. Just don't want to stop reading. I love the way Caesar is a presence elsewhere, occasionally swooping in for a page or so, all energy and intelligence. Wonderful characterization - and not just of Caesar. Through most of Rubicon I was wondering what on earth Gordianus was up to, what he intended, what the hell he thought he was doing. Then I found out... Loved it.
I talked to Sheila on the phone after work. She watched Smallville "Crusade", but she'd missed "Covenant", and phoned to ask me what had happened to Lex that he needed to have his blood refreshed. I must have her over to see "Covenant" - I like having the excuse to see it again with someone I haven't watched it with before.
At Lynne's, we taked about families, and how ours shaped us. One of the exercises is to list twenty assets we got from our families - in terms of personality, physical attributes, and so on. That was interesting! Making up fantasy families was good, too. (My fantasy family had Charles Dickens as my father, while my mother was either Mary Shelley, Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker or Dorothy Dunnett. My chosen siblings (in no particular order) were Keanu Reeves, Patti Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Sting and Supergirl.
The more often the three of us meet, the more we find we have things in common. Not just personality and interests (we already knew that) but strange unrelated things that aren't in our control, like cultural ancestry.
At lunchtime, I was reading the Bhagavad-Gita. I was embarrassed to find it somewhat difficult conceptually. It makes me feel very Western. I will persevere.