Kittens and Baths
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affrecaSort of a bittersweet day. Lou has become fascinated by the bathtub. I have noticed that both of them seem to follow me around the apartment when I'm home along, which often includes sleeping in my discarded clothes when bathing. Barry refuses to get close to the tub, but Lou jumps up to the edge, and stares at the water. Occasionally she tries to bat at it. She flips if I hold her over the water. It makes me miss Pipsqueek, who did the same, and had a similiar coloring. I sort of feel bad that I abandoned her when I left for college, but she won't have been happy off the farm. Not leaving these two, if I can help it.
Except I will, temporarily. I bought tickets to Halifax. Partially to tour Dalhousie University, one possible grad school. On one had, I like living up north, and want to spend some more time abroad. On the other, I don't do well with paperwork. I can get into a great program, and have been already offered RA work. I have already talked Tom into moving there (umm.. not difficult). Going to try to get a bit of sightseeing and camping done. I've been to twenty six countries (or more if you count layovers and/or port areas), but none on this continent.
Been reading a lot again. Currently reading "Humans" by Robert Sawyer. Second book in a series about what happens when a Neanderthal from a parallel dimesion with no humans crosses over to ours. The first book was fun and quick moving, this one is a little predictable (wow, love story) and heavy handed (humans, bad). Sawyer develops an interesting society for the Neanderthals, where they are seperated by gender except for a couple days a month. Everyone has a woman-mate and a man-mate. And only reproduce once every ten years. It seems a bit to static and artificial to me. One of the major plot lines is the main character falling for a human while his woman-mate's woman-mate falls for him. A few more complications (he isn't human, and Neanderthals are not a subspecies), and it is a silly little soap opera played out over the skinning of a deer.
I also tried make a list in amazon of the archeo sci-fi books I know of. Cat unplugged the laptop halfway through. But I made it up to about eight.
"World's End" Joan D. Vinge
"Voices From the Dust" in "Phoenix in the Ashes" by Joan D. Vinge
"Wasteland of Flint" by Thomas Harlan
"House of Reeds" by Thomas Harlan
"The Ship Who Searched" by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey
"City of Bones" by Martha Wells
"Whisper of Time" by Paula Downing King
"Across a Billion Years" by Robert Silverberg
Any others from the reading public are appreciated.
Except I will, temporarily. I bought tickets to Halifax. Partially to tour Dalhousie University, one possible grad school. On one had, I like living up north, and want to spend some more time abroad. On the other, I don't do well with paperwork. I can get into a great program, and have been already offered RA work. I have already talked Tom into moving there (umm.. not difficult). Going to try to get a bit of sightseeing and camping done. I've been to twenty six countries (or more if you count layovers and/or port areas), but none on this continent.
Been reading a lot again. Currently reading "Humans" by Robert Sawyer. Second book in a series about what happens when a Neanderthal from a parallel dimesion with no humans crosses over to ours. The first book was fun and quick moving, this one is a little predictable (wow, love story) and heavy handed (humans, bad). Sawyer develops an interesting society for the Neanderthals, where they are seperated by gender except for a couple days a month. Everyone has a woman-mate and a man-mate. And only reproduce once every ten years. It seems a bit to static and artificial to me. One of the major plot lines is the main character falling for a human while his woman-mate's woman-mate falls for him. A few more complications (he isn't human, and Neanderthals are not a subspecies), and it is a silly little soap opera played out over the skinning of a deer.
I also tried make a list in amazon of the archeo sci-fi books I know of. Cat unplugged the laptop halfway through. But I made it up to about eight.
"World's End" Joan D. Vinge
"Voices From the Dust" in "Phoenix in the Ashes" by Joan D. Vinge
"Wasteland of Flint" by Thomas Harlan
"House of Reeds" by Thomas Harlan
"The Ship Who Searched" by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey
"City of Bones" by Martha Wells
"Whisper of Time" by Paula Downing King
"Across a Billion Years" by Robert Silverberg
Any others from the reading public are appreciated.
