Oct. 31st, 2019

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1. I made it through work today without A) falling asleep on my keyboard (an occasional risk with cold medications) or B) sounding TOO gross TOO often when blowing my nose, though there were definite moments of "oh gods how can so much snot fit in a human body?!" Ugh.

There were two studio tours scheduled for the afternoon. Both people were no-shows and didn't bother to notify us they'd cancelled. I was not terribly surprised, because rain set in around 1:30pm and has not let up since, but still. If you request a tour and we schedule a specific, personal one just for you, I think it's rude not to at least drop a line to say, "Sorry, the weather's horrible, can we reschedule for another day?"

On the bright side, we rented the 10-bedroom apartment! So that's one millstone off our necks, though we still have too many unrented 6-bedroom units. *sigh*

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2. I arrived home around 7:30pm, having stopped to buy a sandwich en route, and found Downstairs Neighbor S on the porch distributing candy to trick-or-treaters brave enough to venture out into the pouring murk. She seems to have knocked off around 8pm, and we are now completely out of candy, as per usual. This is actually pretty impressive, considering the weather! (This year I let S organize the candy/cash collection and just contributed my mom's stash plus a couple bags of my own, since I knew I wasn't going to be home for the majority of the evening.) Anyway, I nicked one Baby Ruth bar as tribute and will shortly eat it as my dessert. :)

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3. Current temporary family consensus seems to be that we will do Thanksgiving in NJ at my parents' house -- exact schedule TBD, based on my aunt and my brother's itineraries, though Mom thinks no winery tour this year -- but Christmas may be in Ithaca. This is partly because of my work schedule, but also a little because it's quite likely to be my last Christmas while living in Ithaca and it would be nice to finally get to the Xmas Eve service my congregation does, because we do the service in Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus. So I have been delegated to ask how the logistics work, vis a vis parking on campus or buses or whatever.

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And now I'm going to browse the Yuletide tagset to see whether there's anything I want to request besides my three nominated fandoms, and what I can offer without regretting all my choices once assignments go out. *wry*
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It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in August through October, 2019. Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.

Hexarchate Stories, by Yoon Ha Lee
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The Orphans of Raspay, by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Bryony and Roses, by T. Kingfisher
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The Raven and the Reindeer, by T. Kingfisher
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The Cloud Roads, by Martha Wells
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The Serpent Sea, by Martha Wells
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The Siren Depths, by Martha Wells
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Stories of the Raksura, vol. I, by Martha Wells
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Stories of the Raksura, vol. II, by Martha Wells
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Digger, by Ursula Vernon
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Particularly attentive readers may note that I did not finish the next two books in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. This is not because I disliked them! On the contrary, I got about halfway through book two and found it just as good as book one... and also just as bleak, which apparently was not something I had the emotional spoons to handle at the time. So I put the series aside and read other things instead. I will return to them someday when I'm in the mood for something in the "thousands of years of continual slow-motion apocalypse with attendant dystopia" vein. *wry*

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