Sealing September
Friday, 30 September 2011 15:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelSo September was opened with a very long flight and closed with a quite severe asthma outbreak. In fact I would say the asthma situation defined this month more than Dragon*Con did, although I may feel differently, looking back, once I've gotten some beta agonists and such in my system. Health-wise I am doing quite poorly and I have only one month before classes start to get it fixed. Sunday morning I have to open the week by being assertive with several doctors to the point that, yes, this is an emergency. It is actually impossible for me to sleep more than 4-5 hours in a row, I get tired from standing for too long, and I am using quantities of salbutamol that are starting to make me nervous.
The new year, on the other hand, started very pleasantly indeed. On Wednesday I summoned the strength to make Challah from scratch out of the recipe book my brother bought me for my birthday. The recipe made three large challahs. They were delicious and comforting, and disappeared at a speed I hadn't counted on.
In book news, I finished Robin Hobb's Dragon Haven the first week I was sick, after tearing through it pretty ravenously. I found it much better than Dragon Keeper in just about every way, although I still have a number of philosophical disagreements to raise. The dragons themselves are very vexatious, but this book stresses more than the previous one that they also differ in temperament and values. This makes the dragon-keeper relationships pretty fascinating to follow. The greatest achievement of this book is that it made me look forward to the rest of the series, which the first installment certainly didn't. Now I'm reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians, having set aside Perdido Street Station indefinitely on grounds that it's too interesting for my flagging energies.
The new year, on the other hand, started very pleasantly indeed. On Wednesday I summoned the strength to make Challah from scratch out of the recipe book my brother bought me for my birthday. The recipe made three large challahs. They were delicious and comforting, and disappeared at a speed I hadn't counted on.
In book news, I finished Robin Hobb's Dragon Haven the first week I was sick, after tearing through it pretty ravenously. I found it much better than Dragon Keeper in just about every way, although I still have a number of philosophical disagreements to raise. The dragons themselves are very vexatious, but this book stresses more than the previous one that they also differ in temperament and values. This makes the dragon-keeper relationships pretty fascinating to follow. The greatest achievement of this book is that it made me look forward to the rest of the series, which the first installment certainly didn't. Now I'm reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians, having set aside Perdido Street Station indefinitely on grounds that it's too interesting for my flagging energies.
