Monday morning

Well, another weekend that was less productive than it should have been, as always. The immortality plot is still working; eat your heart out, Thomas Riddle.

Chapter 36 of Vector's Challenge is now up at AT as of Saturday. One reviewer didn't understand why Aoife reacted to Snape the way she did; one reviewer thought it was just right, and melannen loves Edmund and Aoife.

The bus company that runs the commuter route from Unplottable into Milwaukee was circulating a petition today, because Milwaukee County Transit is trying to take over its routes and business. Since this would be a truly terrible fate (in terms of timeliness, cleanliness of buses, type of buses, etc.), I signed the petition.

Over the weekend, I saw on flourish's LJ an interesting discussion of the British class system by ajhalluk. It reminded me of things my parents used to talk about, what with the Old Man being in the U.S. Army JAG, and therefore "an officer and a gentleman" by act of Congress. He would always bring up The Army Officer's Guide, and the like publications for the wives. The military, after all, is still quite hierarchial, with a definite division between officers, NCOs, and the enlisted. It also reminded me of Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System.

( speculation on wizarding marriage laws )

To do:
1) make to-do list
2) Flight reservations from Milwaukee to the on-site interview
3) Hotel reservations for Chicago, Patent Bar
4) Study for Patent Bar
5) Letters DONE and OUT
5) Put clean laundry away

All right, enough rambling to wake up my mind. I'm going to go read ethics now and hope that Prof. WW will not commit his usual sartorial offense of wearing a polka-dotted tie with a striped shirt. And it's not little polka dots, either. It's white dots about 0.5 cm wide on a purple background. It sets the scientific and artistic parts of my brain screaming with pain. The man is a priest, after all. He can go ahead and wear the black suit with the Roman collar....

Edited to add: I finished off a few things on the list. I have been smelling gravy for the last hour or so, and now I am quite hungry, and it's 15 minutes to class, drat it all.

evening report

Well, there is apparently a bug going around Milwaukee. My friend G. was out sick for two days last week, Brooke's sister-in-law was ill yesterday, Mr. Rudbek was sick today, and I am getting the sniffles myself. So I drank some more orange juice, and I will get to bed early tonight.

Not too many reviews for the newest chapter of Vector's Challenge so far -- I think I may have shocked a lot of my readers with Aoife's response to Snape. Ah well, at least people are still reading.

Prof. WW found an even worse tie-shirt combination tonight. Striped shirt, Crayola crayon tie, in muted colors, but still. Crayons pointing in every direction imaginable, which of course clashed dreadfully with the vertical stripes on the shirt. At least the colors all match, as otherwise I think he would send people screaming out of the classroom. Heh. I suppose I should try to imagine him dressed in a cassock.

And I think I will get some more Dr. Demento and Music from the Hearts of Space this week from the library....

I have decided to try my luck on eBay to see what kinds of suits I can find. It's rather like shopping at the secondhand/consignment/thrift stores, after all. "Reduce, re-use, recycle." I managed to find one gray suit, and I hope that it fits across the chest. Gray and blue, that's what I need right now. Although there are some burgundy, teal, and red Pendleton suits that look tempting...but I'm going to be a patent lawyer. I have to dress sedately and conservatively. At least until I either make partner or get tenure.

Now off to go edit letters and see what kind of progress I can make tonight.