May Day and other diversions
May. 1st, 2007 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI've been a-wandering all this night, and the best part of the day,
But when I come back home again, I will bring you a branch of May.
I feel like I've been wandering all night; I night-shifted myself by accident this weekend, and now my internal clock thinks I shouldn't be going to sleep before midnight. My internal clock obviously hasn't consulted a calendar lately. I still have to haul myself out of bed and go to work for three more mornings this week. (Oogh.)
My bloody work ethic is telling me that since I'm taking the Friday of Memorial Day weekend off, I can't take another day off this month. Although if I was going to do it, this week or next week would be the time to do it. I've just fought my way through the post-April-SOP paperwork, and the next SOP meeting isn't for another three weeks, and it's another teensy one. (June is going to be a mess, but that's June, and I'm not thinking about it yet.)
I just finished reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and I enjoyed it. It's set in China (obviously), beginning in the 1830s and going on through at least 1880, although it never mentions a specific date. I thought it was going to be another "progressive female protagonist in conservative historical period" plot, but it wasn't. It was "dutiful female protagonist demonstrating how historical period worked", and as such, the novel worked. (On top of which, it gave me something new to read for two days.)
I discovered I can get into JSTOR from work, so I've been looking up articles on colonialism and language in my spare moments. I wish I could remember what the other huge research database I used to haunt was.
But when I come back home again, I will bring you a branch of May.
I feel like I've been wandering all night; I night-shifted myself by accident this weekend, and now my internal clock thinks I shouldn't be going to sleep before midnight. My internal clock obviously hasn't consulted a calendar lately. I still have to haul myself out of bed and go to work for three more mornings this week. (Oogh.)
My bloody work ethic is telling me that since I'm taking the Friday of Memorial Day weekend off, I can't take another day off this month. Although if I was going to do it, this week or next week would be the time to do it. I've just fought my way through the post-April-SOP paperwork, and the next SOP meeting isn't for another three weeks, and it's another teensy one. (June is going to be a mess, but that's June, and I'm not thinking about it yet.)
I just finished reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and I enjoyed it. It's set in China (obviously), beginning in the 1830s and going on through at least 1880, although it never mentions a specific date. I thought it was going to be another "progressive female protagonist in conservative historical period" plot, but it wasn't. It was "dutiful female protagonist demonstrating how historical period worked", and as such, the novel worked. (On top of which, it gave me something new to read for two days.)
I discovered I can get into JSTOR from work, so I've been looking up articles on colonialism and language in my spare moments. I wish I could remember what the other huge research database I used to haunt was.
