The Union Meeting....

[fajrdrako]

I don't belong to a Union, but at the end of November every year Harry's Local has its Annual General Meeting and I attend to take minutes, freeing up the regular secretary for other duties.

As an outsider to both the workplace involved - a government department - and the Union itself, my primary impression is how incredibly boring such meetings are, though the attendees are really into it. And I find enough to amuse me and keep my brain awake in just trying to make legible notes about subjects I know nothing of. They had two speakers this year; they were easy to take notes for, compared to the speaker last year, who spoke quickly, used a lot of technical phrases, and worse - a constant stream of government acronyms that made no sense to me at all.

After the meeting, we went to the Colonnade for supper - where they have the best pizza this side of Italy. Harry and I shared a large combination. We even managed to have room left afterwards for half a key lime pie each.

When I left for work this morning it looked like rain, and might have drizzled a bit. When I left work at 4 p.m. there was a gold, strong wind that was making the temperature drop fast. When I left the restaurant it was so cold that dry bits of snow were blowing against the curbs and the sidewalks had patches of glittering, solid ice. I thought of the Stark family; not so much their motto "Winter is Coming" but the one I suspect will appear in the books that George R.R. Martin hasn't written yet - "Winter has come".

Comments

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

"Winter is Coming" as opposed to "Winter has come"?

Parallel situation, I'd say, to the status of the next book. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That might be a good sign... waiting forever and ever for an event that looks as if it will *never* happen.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

You mean we'll soon be reading that "Winter has come" - in the next book? I can only hope so!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I have a 'wish list' of things I want to see in the next book - winter being one of them! Other things: more information on the Others, a large dragon, and clues about Jon Snow's parentage.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I had various theories about Jon Snow's parentage - if only I could remember them!

::runs screaming from the room at the thought of all the books I want need to reread::

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My friend maaboroshi has been rereading the series and regaling me with comments and I've been having a terrible time remembering names as she talks. I remember my favourites - Jon Snow, Arya, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion too... Danaerys... Yeah, I want to reread. So much stuff, so little time.

I'd love to hear your theories on Jon Snow's parentage! I've heard theories that he is really the long-lsot Tregaryon heir.

Have you read the new George R.R. Martin short story in this universe - a sequel to "The Hedge Knight", I think - that came out this year? I have not and I'm eager too, but the book cost $40 or so and hasn't turned up in the local library yet.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I think my favourite theory was that Jon Snow wasn't really Eddard Stark's bastard at all, but the child of his dead sister. Whether that would make him the lost Tregaryon heir, I'm afraid I can't remember!

I haven't read The Hedge Knight, let alone the sequel. What anthologies are they in?