busy busy busy

[solarbird]

All weekend has been housecleaning and GRE prep, plus picking up ravyng_yngvar at the airport and such. The house is very clean and I've gotten through all the math prep, which is good, and I think I'm in good shape for the writing. But I'm going to take the practice test tonight or tomorrow.

Zoe, our parrot, is slowly learning to say "cracker." We think. She's got the tonal part down, echoing the way we say it, and she totally knows what it means. But it's not at all clear yet. She still says "Hello?" when we're not around, so I'm still hoping it'll get through eventually. ^_^

Also, my publisher sent what I think are duplicate contracts to fill out to our old address (which is strange, the previous article wasn't from there, so this is a reversion to very old data), and they're dated back in July. DHL got them to MurkSouth a couple of days ago. I don't know if these are Ancien Loste Documents finally resurfacing, or what, but I'm wondering whether this is why I haven't yet been paid, I don't know. I've sent a note to the editor saying omgwtf.

Anyway, here's today's flower picture. It's of the same plant as the last one, but I really like both photos so I think it's fair game. It was really pretty. ^_^


Satellite Dishes of the Floral Kingdom

Neil Feineman's list of classic geek sf. Bold what you have read:
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
RUR by Karel Capek
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
If I Ran the Zoo by Dr.Seuss
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dune by Frank Herbert
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin


You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of the
postmodernists, you collect avant-garde
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articles for breakfast. You positively live
for theory. It really doesn't matter what
kind, as long as the words are big and the
paragraph breaks few and far between.


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Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I haven't been paid yet either. I was gonna ask you about that.

[solarbird]

Ah! So maybe this is something different entirely.

[banner.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that there are not more Heinlein books on there, like 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', or 'Starship Troopers'. I'm also surprised that 'The Caves of Steel' isn't on there as well.

But the BIGGEST shock is that 'The Witches of Karres' is not on there! If you haven't read it, you just cannot be a SciFi geek. Sorry.

(And oh, 'Canticle for Leibowitz' sucked! I can't see how anyone can consider it a 'classic' it's not really even a story)

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I LOVED CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. It seriously rocked my world, reshaped how I look at EVERYTHING.