spring break!

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The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White: I don't think I'd actually read this before, not properly all the way through, which is odd. I enjoyed it--it reminded me of The Last Unicorn--but I am not sure I'll go on and read the others.
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian: Similarly, except that this is nothing like The Last Unicorn. He does do the exposition of nautical terms very cunningly, but I still don't quiiite care enough to go on with the series.
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken: bluestalking made me buy this in a used bookstore yesterday. I had been intending to read it anyway for quite some time, though, so. Very quick read, fun, not quite what I was expecting (I've seen these books around for ages and never read them so that's not really surprising) but now I've read this one and I can go on and read the others.
Dogma (movie): ...mm. Some bits of it were entertaining; some bits of it not quite so much. Like a mid-90s mainstream-pop-culture American version of Good Omens.
Rizzoli and Isles (first 2 episodes, TV show): A cop show, similarly to Bones or Castle or Sherlock, with the grand difference that both leads are female. It is not that complicated or smart, as cop shows go (they keep doing stupid things! for bad reasons that involve "the plot needed to work out that way"!), but--the two vaguely-UST-y leads are female. Which is actually enough to make me go "yeah okay". Also, the only young white male actors on the show play jerks who are recognized by the narrative as such; the other characters are all female or middle-aged or PoC. Graaanted there aren't, say, any older women or PoC women or disabled characters at all. Still.


I've been having a pretty sleepy spring break. I wrote a scene and a half of a play and I revised a short story, also I wrote a kind-of-prologue for a novel that doesn't actually have a plot. Sent a story or two out and a few more queries. I am having vague tickles of ideas; we'll see if any of them go anywhere.

Don't Wanna go back the day after tomorrow. Especially because I'm getting my second quantum midterm next week and the week after that is tech week for Midsummer...but, well, onwards. It will be nice to have structured Things To Do again. (I might get to go to some bits of ConBust next weekend but we'll see; Midsummer is eating my life.)