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: madrobins; May 23rd, 19:03

Today I got up way early and drove up to Davis to meet Sarcasm Girl (aka Julie), to do the transfer orientation thing. She took the train up. It was as I was getting off the highway, about five minutes from campus, that The Girl called. Chagrinned. Orientation is the last Wednesday in June. She is not the only one who made this error--there were half a dozen kids there (apparently there'd been an error on the website which was repaired after the kid looked at it).

So we went out to breakfast and I took her home, and then I drove to work.

It's a pretty campus, I'll give it that. I'll report back at the end of June. Sigh.

i just know that i'm harder to console

: matociquala; May 23rd, 21:01

Current Mood:: mellow

Current Music:: Depeche Mode - Lilian (Album Version)

I'm working on "The Deeps of the Sky" tonight, and generating a regular festival of Words Word Don't Know:

luminesced, tropopause, sheeny, thicks, unnavigable, dartlike,

Meanwhile, I had a little argument with myself on twitter as to whether I should use some modestly bogus science to create a cool special effect. I went with it. ;-) Now I'm stopping because I have to figure out how the protagonist intervenes to stop the Bad Thing from happening, or how he mops up afterward...

Oh, I might have just done so. Woot!

Tags: deeps of the sky, progress notes

Hedjog in transit

: oursin; May 23rd, 20:24

Oh joy, went to bed really, really early last night and woke up a few hours later with a migraine. I did manage some rather broken further sleep but ended up getting up earlier than I intended and washing my hair.

The remnants of the attack were cleared by the coffee at breakfast with arkessian, fortunately.

Fairly expeditious bus journey to Madison, and as we debussed a taxi was unloading a passenger just as I was trying to ring the Concourse about a shuttle. So we got the taxi in the hand.

Note: these days when travelling the first things I do on arrival in my room are a) plug in and turn on the netbook b) plug in to recharge various other appliances. Then phone partner to inform of my safe arrival. O tempora, etc.

Having said which, I then had a somewhat frustrating hour or so with netbook being *weird* and sluggish.

But I did manage a brief session on the elliptical in the fitness centre and think I am the better for it,

A v early dinner with arkessian at new sushi place - ++ for the sushi and the plum wine but not entirely convinced that their special house sauces added a great deal to the mix. We then ascertained that the gelato place is still in business and maintaining the quality.

A slightly less than relaxing evening trying, and eventually succeeding, in topping up my mobile, among other things.

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Tags: computer, food, frustration, migraine, mobile phone, o tempora o mores, travel

Thud: Turnover

: papersky; May 24th, 0:32

Words: 2088
Total words: 2088
Music: Three Double Concertos
Tea: Jon Singer's Green Pu Er, followed by London Tea Company's White Tea with Apricot and Elderflower.
Files: 3
Reason for stopping: bedtime

I've given up for the time being on getting Protext working properly in the emulator and gone back to the 386 laptop. I'm still planning to write the Talleyrand thing but I've been doing research on it forever and it still needs research, and I'm quite excited about this and I thought I'd sit down and write it and see where it wanted to go.

It's about the middle generation of a generation starship, and it's inspired by a panel at last year's