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Apr. 1st, 2010 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debithaFirst of all, let it be known that I really bloody hate the first week after the clocks change. I get thrown by it really badly, and spend a week exhausted.
Not helped by the frustrations of not more than sporadic internet connection at work for the last two days. Emails have been dodgy at best, websites... well, it took me nearly an hour to get someone booked on a course, normally a two minute job. Heads were meeting desks all over the office.
Tired or no, I went swimming last night. I managed 20 lengths of the 50m pool. I swum a whole kilometer! Whoo!
Tonight I went to hear Philip Pullman at the Guildhall, talking about his new book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. His publishers decided to do a series of books re-imagining myths of the world - mythological fanfic, if you will. They invited a number of authors to pick a myth and retell it in their own way, which I find a fascinating idea and I'll be looking into it. (The publisher is Canongate if you're interested and don't want to wait for me to sort myself out!) I managed to restrain myself from adding it to my To Read List, but he's a very interesting speaker.
Tomorrow, I will throw a load of things in a suitcase (it's OK, I have a list) and jet off to Firenze for the weekend. I have only ever been on flying visits to Florence, and this will be another one, but this time I plan to see some of the sights I have missed previously. The Uffizi and David have been quite thoroughly Done, so this time I am going to the Palazzo Vecchio and Museo del Bargello and probably some other places that I will pick out of the guide book on the way there.
Ciao darlings, have a wonderful Easter.
Not helped by the frustrations of not more than sporadic internet connection at work for the last two days. Emails have been dodgy at best, websites... well, it took me nearly an hour to get someone booked on a course, normally a two minute job. Heads were meeting desks all over the office.
Tired or no, I went swimming last night. I managed 20 lengths of the 50m pool. I swum a whole kilometer! Whoo!
Tonight I went to hear Philip Pullman at the Guildhall, talking about his new book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. His publishers decided to do a series of books re-imagining myths of the world - mythological fanfic, if you will. They invited a number of authors to pick a myth and retell it in their own way, which I find a fascinating idea and I'll be looking into it. (The publisher is Canongate if you're interested and don't want to wait for me to sort myself out!) I managed to restrain myself from adding it to my To Read List, but he's a very interesting speaker.
Tomorrow, I will throw a load of things in a suitcase (it's OK, I have a list) and jet off to Firenze for the weekend. I have only ever been on flying visits to Florence, and this will be another one, but this time I plan to see some of the sights I have missed previously. The Uffizi and David have been quite thoroughly Done, so this time I am going to the Palazzo Vecchio and Museo del Bargello and probably some other places that I will pick out of the guide book on the way there.
Ciao darlings, have a wonderful Easter.
