"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Zoo Day

My eyes hurt, I don't want to talk to anyone, and I'm pretty much fed up with the news. I'm going to my favorite refuge, the Lincoln Park Zoo.

(As soon as I finish uploading the 1998-1999 gallery at a/k/a Hunter.)

(PS -- One very nice thing happened yesterday, amongst all my "Through the Looking Glass" conversations: One of the guys at the office, just out of the blue, gave me a copy of Cordwainer Smith's Norstriia, which is an omnibus of The Planet Buyer, which I remember from its original publication as "The Boy Who Bought Old Earth," and The Underpeople, which looks like it might be a reworked "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell." It's the 1988 Victor Gollancz publication, in almost pristine condition. Oh, wow! I don't like Smith's attitudes about a lot of things, but he was one of the most inventive science fiction writers ever.)
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