It's Friday... but wait, it's *my* Monday...

[desertvixen]

This means, of course, that Monday will be my Friday. So it works out. Hopefully all of the people who have been getting on my freaking nerves will not be there Saturday and Sunday.

I think raeyn and I were both close, close, close to strangling W today. Luckily for him, we had Dove dark chocolate on hand. Of course, we'd been at work for seven hours or so before we had a *chance* to devour the chocolate. W is in fine form lately, and I'm kind of hoping we get to witness a TSgt W/TSgt G fight to the death. My money is on G. Especially since he keeps cutting into one of my ops, all the time. The op in question is NOT perfect - but he has made improvements. He does better. He works just fine for me. But he is on W's hate list. It pisses me off, because the op deserves not to get chewed on every time he opens his (admittedly smart) mouth. Especially when someone else who works in our section, but is not PART of our section, is over there egging him on. This person, who happens to be an NCO as well, did not get chewed on. Just my op. At least I managed to get some of my counseling statements written today. Tomorrow, we have to attack the training records. I'm bringing the chocolate again.

I have 3 pages of Electra's next chap written - none of the bootcamp ex. I'm a bad moderator. I keep changing my mind about what to try for it, because I haven't been able to break 5 sentences on any of them. Must write, must write.

February looks like a good month for my local book store, as both JD Robb (Nora Roberts) and Laurell K. Hamilton have new HCs coming out. The LKH is going to be a Merry Gentry book, which I have started liking a little better than the Anita books. I still haven't read LKH's Incubus Dreams, since I got a little burned on the Anita Blake HCs. Made a run on Barnes and Noble today to use my 10% off purchase coupon before it expires, ended up spending twenty-seven dollars and walking out with an appointment book, a mini-Calendar (Far Side), the Nora Roberts companion, a bargain HC of Laura Joh Rowland's Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria to replace my paperback, and a birhday card for my grandmother. I sprung for the NR companion since a) I had the coupon and b) it gets hard to keep up with some of her stuff, especially when they keep changing the freaking covers. I really like her stuff, on the "suck you in and not let go" model - kind of like popcorn but fun.

There's a LJ community now for Star Trek New Frontier, so if you like that, check it out.

raeyn - Check this link out if you haven't already seen it:

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav012105.shtml

Off to read and (hopefully) write!

DV

Comments

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.. never seen that site before *adds to faves*

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Rowland? I've read four or five of the books in the series and rather enjoyed them, not least for the glimpse into the Japanese worldview of the period.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

They're pretty good.

Not a big Japanese history buff, so I can't speak to the accuracy - and I didn't care as much for the book I tried that's set before Sano marries Reiko.

The Pillow Book is one of the better ones, I think, and I also liked the Dragon King's Palace. The mysteries seem well-structured enough to me, and I like the court politics.

DV

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Let's see. Sano married Reiko at the beginning of the fourth book of the series, so the one you didn't like would be Shinju, Bundori, or The Way of the Traitor. I liked the first two, but don't remember much about the third. (It seems I've read more than just "four or five" of them...) I haven't gotten to The Dragon King's Palace yet.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Pretty good.. builds on some of the stuff started in Black Lotus.

I think it was Shinju I tried.

DV

[bluephoenix13.livejournal.com]

who encouraged him? was it that bitch, jess, b/c if it was, so help me God...