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Sleep: 7pm to 10pm, 1am to 9am

Weather: cloudy, 84F, 66% humidity, high 84F

Daily BPAL: MAD SWEENEY

Daily Tarot: 3 of Cups: Success, abundance. Good luck, fortune, victory. Happy issue of an undertaking. Hospitality, pleasure.

MyMiniCity: Increase Population
Increase Transportation
Increase Industry

Reading:
Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Caesar and Antony by Plutarch
The Wicca Handbook by Eileen Holland
Forever by Pete Hamill
New Tales for Old: Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults by Gail de Vos and Anna E. Altmann
Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock

Loss of edit link

Ok, this is weird. Ever since yesterday I've noticed that when I am looking at a particular entry in my LJ the "Edit this Entry", "Add to Memories", etc. links that are usually at the bottom are missing. I've checked and double checked to make sure I'm properly logged in, but I can't seem to get them back. This is annoying because it means I have to go to the edit entries tab and several more steps to edit something. Anyone have any idea what might have happened and how to fix it?

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I'm not exactly sure why, but the Doctor Who theme, in all its incarnations, makes me nostalgic. This makes little sense, since I only really started watching Doctor Who with the 2005 new series. Moreover, *watching* Doctor Who, even the older series episodes, doesn't make me nostalgic. Just listening to the theme.

In other related news, the university contracts with a company for their outdoor festivals that provides Tardis-blue port-o-potties. So on festival days, damn if I don't think I see the Tardis out of the corner of my eye every 30 seconds.

50bookchallenge, 15000pages

Book #30 -- Cate Tiernan, Reckoning (Sweep #13), 188 pages.

Another one from Alisa's point of view. It's nice to get away from Morgan sometimes, and the whole theme of reconnecting with estranged family members resonates with me, for obvious reasons.

Progress toward goals: 102/366 = 27.9%

Books: 30/150 = 20.0%

Pages: 8459/50000 = 16.9%

2008 Book List

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50bookchallenge, 15000pages

Book #31 -- Pete Hamill, Forever, 613 pages.

I picked this one up because it was mentioned on the "New Amsterdam" boards that it had a similar plot. Which it does. As a general rule, I've always liked stories with immortal characters. Something about living forever while everything around you changes has always fascinated me. This one was good, but slightly disappointing because I just could not connect with the main character. Also, the author's habit of periodically lapsing into present tense was probably meant to be literary, but it just annoyed me.

Progress toward goals: 102/366 = 27.9%

Books: 31/150 = 20.7%

Pages: 9072/50000 = 18.1%

2008 Book List

cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven