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I have the best job ever. As a thank-you for us staying so late Monday and Tuesday (I stayed until 2 and 1:15, respectively), they said we could come in at 11 this morning. I slept 10 hours last night and took the most decadent bath in the history of the universe, then I went for a walk because I feel like I’ve been losing a little weight lately and wanted to encourage this, then I returned all the books to the library that I’d finished but hadn’t gotten a chance to return.

All the refreshment of a weekend on a Thursday morning! Win!

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Madeline L’Engle died. I just now found out, as I’m quite behind on my flist.

Did you know I included farandolae in a 5th grade project on cells, because I didn’t realize she’d made them up? She might have had a detrimental effect on my biology grade, but her influence on my imagination and sense of wonder was quite the opposite.

Thank you.

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Will pointed out that I’ve neglected to mention the release of Many Bloody Returns, an anthology of short stories dealing with vampires and birthdays. It officially came out yesterday, though I managed to snag a copy from Borders last week. Jim Butcher has a Dresden Files story included, and it’s hilarious. Check it, yo!

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…WTF, they’re cutting the deaf sister from Bionic Woman and replacing her with “a hot, hearing, hacker chick”? THE HELL. That was one of my favourite parts of the pilot! As one of my best online friends is deaf, I wanted to see how they treated it in a mainstream TV show. Then they could use the bionically-enhanced stuff to comment on modern viewpoints on disability and maybe raise awareness, and ARGH. Why does TV need yet another dime-a-dozen, perky, hot hacker chick when they could have actually done something with significance?

I’ll tune in to the first couple eps when they air, as the pilot looked quite promising, but this kind of decision leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Ah well, not like I needed yet another TV show to watch this fall. I watch enough TV already.