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Oct. 17th, 2015 05:10 pmI woke up at 6:49 am on the button this morning, even though I didn't actually have to be anywhere until noon. My alarm goes at 6:48 am on weekdays. And then I got back from my mani-pedi around 1:30 pm with nothing to do but fall into bed and nap, but could I nap? No sirree bob. It's now 5:30 pm, I'm still dog tired, but I have not napped. Weekends are when I catch up on sleep! Hands are now professionally taken care of after I bit them to shreds a few weeks ago, so let's see if I can maintain this level of non-bitten-ness on the skin around my nails. As long as I put on new polish promptly once the old starts chipping badly, I should be okay. When I have polish on and I get stressed, I take out my stress by scratching up my polish, not my skin.
In his last long letter (Uncle #1 writes very long letters, in longhand, which have to be deciphered. I love him dearly, but I wish he'd learn to type!), Uncle #1 revealed he'd never heard of the October Crisis of 1970, which I had mentioned in passing in my last letter to him. I am immediately all a-flutter because potential Christmas present! Did a bit of research, and the most promising book looks like William Tetley's The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider's View. William Tetley was a member of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa's cabinet during the crisis, and was later a law professor at McGill.
I haven't read the book myself, though, and my to-be-read list is LONG already. Is the book as good as the reviews make it sound? Also, it sounds like it may be fairly anglophone in preoccupation. Are there other books on the crisis (written in English or translated into English) by francophone writers, which are also good? I'm sure there must be.
Back to NOT napping, and reading Julia Fox's Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Catherine of Aragon and Juana of Castile. Great stuff, but long. Also reading at the same time Raphael Honigstein's Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World. What? So I have eclectic tastes. Big deal. Harrrrumph!
I have a string of bookmarks to important political articles which I gleaned from the all-knowing f-list/dwircle, but I'm too tired to write them all up right now. Rain cheque?
In his last long letter (Uncle #1 writes very long letters, in longhand, which have to be deciphered. I love him dearly, but I wish he'd learn to type!), Uncle #1 revealed he'd never heard of the October Crisis of 1970, which I had mentioned in passing in my last letter to him. I am immediately all a-flutter because potential Christmas present! Did a bit of research, and the most promising book looks like William Tetley's The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider's View. William Tetley was a member of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa's cabinet during the crisis, and was later a law professor at McGill.
I haven't read the book myself, though, and my to-be-read list is LONG already. Is the book as good as the reviews make it sound? Also, it sounds like it may be fairly anglophone in preoccupation. Are there other books on the crisis (written in English or translated into English) by francophone writers, which are also good? I'm sure there must be.
Back to NOT napping, and reading Julia Fox's Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Catherine of Aragon and Juana of Castile. Great stuff, but long. Also reading at the same time Raphael Honigstein's Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World. What? So I have eclectic tastes. Big deal. Harrrrumph!
I have a string of bookmarks to important political articles which I gleaned from the all-knowing f-list/dwircle, but I'm too tired to write them all up right now. Rain cheque?
