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Being irresponsible
Jan. 4th, 2007 08:44 pmWell, everyone gets to procrastinate a bit now and then. Today was my half day off, and I intended to put together the spinning guild newsletter. However, I got distracted and didn't do it. The ostensible excuse was that I couldn't find the schedule of events for 2007, though I knew it had been given to me in print form a month ago. No need to ask how I could lose it if you saw the incredible clutter in my home workroom.
So, while pondering just where that could be, I had some lunch and started reading Shadows in Snow: Stories from New Tibet, volume 2 which I've had sitting here all through the holiday season just waiting for me. I didn't intend to read it all in one sitting, but that's what I've nearly done because I couldn't put it down. The book contains four short stories by Alopex, Mick Collins, Tim Susman, and Jeff Eddy, as well as a longer novella by Susman. Once I got into the novella, I was doomed. Like most of the New Tibet stories, it's a tear-jerker, but so well set and written that I can't help but get caught up in it. Sofawolf is set to release a third New Tibet volume at FC I think, and I'll be ordering it as soon as it's available.
I still had to do my barn chores, since Gary is in Chicago today, so I had no choice but to put down Tim's work and pick up my Zen Nano, in which I have the audiobook of Brian Jacques' Redwall loaded at the moment. The story is more than just a reading. Jacques himself does the narration in his rich Scottish brogue, and the characters are played by a full cast of actors, complete with all the distinctive regional dialect so characteristic of the Redwall series. I think getting too absorbed in that slowed me down, as it took me two full hours to complete afternoon and evening chores even though the temperature outside was nearly 50° F. Usually it would take me 90 minutes or less.
Returned to New Tibet while I ate dinner, and then sat with it some more. Finally went to start on the newsletter, remembered once again that I needed that schedule. I was about to e-mail the person responsible, admitting I'd lost it and asking for another copy, when it dawned on me where I should look, and sure enough, there it was. However, it's so late now that I'm going to put the newsletter off until tomorrow. Instead, I'll finish the New Tibet book because I'm compelled to do so, and because I must learn the fate of an innocent and orphaned wolf cub named Perrin, regardless of whether it is a happy ending or a sad one. You can see Perrin as depicted by Odis Holcomb if you look at the cover art shown here.
So, while pondering just where that could be, I had some lunch and started reading Shadows in Snow: Stories from New Tibet, volume 2 which I've had sitting here all through the holiday season just waiting for me. I didn't intend to read it all in one sitting, but that's what I've nearly done because I couldn't put it down. The book contains four short stories by Alopex, Mick Collins, Tim Susman, and Jeff Eddy, as well as a longer novella by Susman. Once I got into the novella, I was doomed. Like most of the New Tibet stories, it's a tear-jerker, but so well set and written that I can't help but get caught up in it. Sofawolf is set to release a third New Tibet volume at FC I think, and I'll be ordering it as soon as it's available.
I still had to do my barn chores, since Gary is in Chicago today, so I had no choice but to put down Tim's work and pick up my Zen Nano, in which I have the audiobook of Brian Jacques' Redwall loaded at the moment. The story is more than just a reading. Jacques himself does the narration in his rich Scottish brogue, and the characters are played by a full cast of actors, complete with all the distinctive regional dialect so characteristic of the Redwall series. I think getting too absorbed in that slowed me down, as it took me two full hours to complete afternoon and evening chores even though the temperature outside was nearly 50° F. Usually it would take me 90 minutes or less.
Returned to New Tibet while I ate dinner, and then sat with it some more. Finally went to start on the newsletter, remembered once again that I needed that schedule. I was about to e-mail the person responsible, admitting I'd lost it and asking for another copy, when it dawned on me where I should look, and sure enough, there it was. However, it's so late now that I'm going to put the newsletter off until tomorrow. Instead, I'll finish the New Tibet book because I'm compelled to do so, and because I must learn the fate of an innocent and orphaned wolf cub named Perrin, regardless of whether it is a happy ending or a sad one. You can see Perrin as depicted by Odis Holcomb if you look at the cover art shown here.
