Knew I Should Look Nice Today

Was supposed to meet up with Mary today, but I couldn't find the freakin' Starbucks where we were supposed to meet. Later on was supposed to hang out with Lex and Jamie, but Jamie couldn't come, so Lex and I went to the Flying Star and then hung out at my house looking at old yearbooks. At the Flying Star there were a bunch of other Academyites from various years, some of whom stopped to talk on their way out. So it was that I ran into Quentin. We had a brief, pleasant conversation. Said he'd been at Oxford and that he hears wild stories from Reed. But really, what other Reed stories are there?

So a blank day turned out to be pretty social. Good stuff.

Introducing...

"Discretinary" as a word. The root being, of course, "cretin."

Bookishness

Yesterday my niece seems to have decided again that I'm mother approved, and therefore okay. She was a bit wary of me when I first got back, probably because I've been away for four months and she's also gotten very clingy since my brother-in-law went back to work. But yesterday I gave her cookies, and took her outside to see the dog from next door because my mom and sister were busy. So when they left later, I got both a goodbye hug and a kiss from Amelia. So I felt special. Or something.

In other news, I'm basically drifting through this break. Not sleeping extraordinarily much, just not doing much of anything. Except reading. Finished Fury today. Probably won't finish The Eye of the World very soon, since it is quite long. Trying to decide if I'll start Fellowship of the Ring yet. I have a backlog of magazines, and I never finished Walden this summer.

So many things I want to read, I don't even know where to start making a list.