Righty, so today I got sent home from sch... errrr... work, so I could work from home. I'm not quite sure whether I should be worried about this, or gleefully say 'Score!' and chalk it up to a sick day I don't have to kick in leave for. OK, so I did actually *work* from home (and got the second draft of the workflow white paper done, I am T3H V1Rt3wu55!), so it's not really like I took a sick day... but still... I was at home, so that had to count for something.
The worrying thing was that my workmates (and indeed my boss) absolutely did not send me home out of any sense of 'oh, you poor thing, go home and get better, OK?' Nope, there was a far stronger sense of 'Bugger off, we don't want it, and if you absolutely *must* get that whitepaper written today then do it somewhere you're not sharing our air, damn you!'
So errrr, yeah. Score?
On the plus side, I can now add two more books to my 50-book challenge: both lighthearted fantasies that were just right when one is feeling sick and generally in need of escapist reading.
ONE GOOD KNIGHT, by Mercedes Lackey. Part of her 500-Kingdoms set where she starts with a base of a fairytale and goes off in all sorts of fun and silly directions (with just the tiniest flicker of a political commentary at the same time... although that may just be me). This one starts very *very* loosely based on the myth of Andromeda and the Kraken (I'd say 'Perseus and Andromeda', but Perseus doesn't actually appear at any point, and the Kraken is a dragon). It's a lovely, light-hearted story - nice characterisation - and Misty's obviously got herself a good editor, because her writing for this set is back to what I used to enjoy in her Di Tregarde and early Valdemar books.
WINTERSMITH, by Terry Pratchett. The third (and, I believe, final) Nac Mac Feegle / Tiffany Aching book. Tiffany's 13 in this one, and manages to accidentally dance her way into one of the oldest stories known to discworld folk - the dance between the Summer Queen and Winter King. On the surface, there's an element of a love story about this (although not in the way you'd *usually* think of a love story going - as always with Mr Pratchett's books, I'm blown away by all the different levels you can read it on). Oh, and I think I have a new 2nd favourite character too. First, of course, will always be Death. But second? Second is now Horace the Cheese, because he's just so damn cute. How can you not like a cheese who wears a dirty tartan kilt, and who responds to the question of "Well, are you coming with me?" by emanating a definitive air of yesness"?
So then - that's 14 books down, 36 to go...
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