Patience? Clearly not a strong suit...
May. 8th, 2009 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxI came home yesterday lunchtime to a package from those nice people at amazon: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan.
So, obviously, once Mali-walking duties had been completed, I settled down last night and read it. In a single sitting. Y'know, I only read the first instalment (The Lightning Thief) last summer (it proved a spectacularly well-judged present from a friend), so I like to think that I got myself up to speed pretty quickly, all things considered.
Anyway, PJ5 is a decent read - at times I feel that it's trying too hard, but there are other moments where things are tied up rather neatly. And Clarisse rocks :-)
Switching subjects, I spend at least 2 hours a day walking Mali, and rather than spend those two hours listening to the same music again and again, I try and load the phone up with podcasts (mainly from the Beeb and the Grauniad), or else I download MP3s of public lectures. Sometimes these can prove spectacularly ill-judged, but hey, that's what the 'skip' button's there for. So that's why the 'Music' field on these entries may sometimes prove to be somewhat unmusical, as it were.
And finally, stretching the boundaries of those BBC2 light entertainment links, work is busybusybusybusy* at the moment. This has its plus points, but I do end up feeling pretty tired by the evening. Summer, for me, tends to be like this, as various seasonal demands kick in - hopefully I'll keep my head above water,though.
* see Music for very stretched connection
So, obviously, once Mali-walking duties had been completed, I settled down last night and read it. In a single sitting. Y'know, I only read the first instalment (The Lightning Thief) last summer (it proved a spectacularly well-judged present from a friend), so I like to think that I got myself up to speed pretty quickly, all things considered.
Anyway, PJ5 is a decent read - at times I feel that it's trying too hard, but there are other moments where things are tied up rather neatly. And Clarisse rocks :-)
Switching subjects, I spend at least 2 hours a day walking Mali, and rather than spend those two hours listening to the same music again and again, I try and load the phone up with podcasts (mainly from the Beeb and the Grauniad), or else I download MP3s of public lectures. Sometimes these can prove spectacularly ill-judged, but hey, that's what the 'skip' button's there for. So that's why the 'Music' field on these entries may sometimes prove to be somewhat unmusical, as it were.
And finally, stretching the boundaries of those BBC2 light entertainment links, work is busybusybusybusy* at the moment. This has its plus points, but I do end up feeling pretty tired by the evening. Summer, for me, tends to be like this, as various seasonal demands kick in - hopefully I'll keep my head above water,though.
* see Music for very stretched connection
