seasonal organizational disorder
Dec. 7th, 2008 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowA movie I don't remember had a character who described herself as organizationally impaired. I sympathize. I was looking at the calendar as my good mother tried to convince me to come and spend days visiting her with the girls and Al and she'd put us up in a hotel and it HAD TO HAPPEN BEFORE Christmas, and it so isn't. Every day of the remaining weekends is full. Aside from the fact that Al's head would explode and the kids would collapse from exasperation. It isn't going to work. It has taken three phone calls so far to attempt to establish this. I am sure I am facing several more.
In other news, I finished the 4th of Dorothy Dunnet's Niccolo books and I cannot believe she did that to them. She spent the book (aside from some exercises looking at slavery from different places) getting Gelis and Nicholas to a really good place and then THE DAY THEY GET MARRIED she has Gelis 6 weeks (SIX weeks, no one knows at six weeks, not for sure) pregnant by bloody Simon and Niccolo doesn't even ask if she is OK or hurt or if it was rape or simple bad planning on her part or what, just storms out and the book ends. These books are exhausting to read. And deeply exasperating, but mostly exhausting.
On the other hand, I did not move out of my (comfy) chair except to eat all day. It was lovely to be not required anywhere. It won't happen again soon, but I enjoyed the hell out of it while I was there. And One Dunnett book is roughly 12 hours of reading.
In other news, I finished the 4th of Dorothy Dunnet's Niccolo books and I cannot believe she did that to them. She spent the book (aside from some exercises looking at slavery from different places) getting Gelis and Nicholas to a really good place and then THE DAY THEY GET MARRIED she has Gelis 6 weeks (SIX weeks, no one knows at six weeks, not for sure) pregnant by bloody Simon and Niccolo doesn't even ask if she is OK or hurt or if it was rape or simple bad planning on her part or what, just storms out and the book ends. These books are exhausting to read. And deeply exasperating, but mostly exhausting.
On the other hand, I did not move out of my (comfy) chair except to eat all day. It was lovely to be not required anywhere. It won't happen again soon, but I enjoyed the hell out of it while I was there. And One Dunnett book is roughly 12 hours of reading.
