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Wow, I'm UPDATING!
Dec. 28th, 2005 09:56 pmAfter two very slow days at work, I'm realizing how much I miss writing (and coherent thought. Boredom nicely shows up the incoherence that gets camouflaged by interesting chaos.) So I tried blogging over at Briars & Thorns tonight, and remembered that I haven't updated here in a bit, either.
Why, you're probably all ignorant that my coworker and I have managed the store all by ourselves for two whole days!
Two... whole... boring... days.
Never have I missed AIM so much. The store is unnaturally quiet and empty of customers. I spent my lunch hour yesterday avidly researching the history of medieval and Renaissance French royalty on Wikipedia after I vaguely remembered wondering why an author had chosen Louis XI to be this world's version of his Spider King (answer: Louis XI was known as "the universal spider" and was probably the entire reason for the Spider King in Stasheff's Wizard in Rhyme series). I wasn't particularly thorough, but I was reminded of the fact that Henry II (the one who lent his name to my beloved prince in Ever After) was the one who married Catherine de Medici and brought that clan and their politics to his country, which later caused Henry of Navarre such headaches. I didn't know that it was the Salic Law that brought the distant Navarre cousin to the throne, nor that the Salic Law might not have been such a problem to having one of the French lines of the family if the French hadn't twisted it so hard to refuse the English Edward III his inheritance.
Yes, I'm a geek. But you knew that.
Anyway, I intend to write more often - with a possible delay for the next couple weeks to finish enjoying my Christmas gifts (which include at least one unread Terry Pratchett book and a dozen or so unwatched episodes of Firefly). :)
Why, you're probably all ignorant that my coworker and I have managed the store all by ourselves for two whole days!
Two... whole... boring... days.
Never have I missed AIM so much. The store is unnaturally quiet and empty of customers. I spent my lunch hour yesterday avidly researching the history of medieval and Renaissance French royalty on Wikipedia after I vaguely remembered wondering why an author had chosen Louis XI to be this world's version of his Spider King (answer: Louis XI was known as "the universal spider" and was probably the entire reason for the Spider King in Stasheff's Wizard in Rhyme series). I wasn't particularly thorough, but I was reminded of the fact that Henry II (the one who lent his name to my beloved prince in Ever After) was the one who married Catherine de Medici and brought that clan and their politics to his country, which later caused Henry of Navarre such headaches. I didn't know that it was the Salic Law that brought the distant Navarre cousin to the throne, nor that the Salic Law might not have been such a problem to having one of the French lines of the family if the French hadn't twisted it so hard to refuse the English Edward III his inheritance.
Yes, I'm a geek. But you knew that.
Anyway, I intend to write more often - with a possible delay for the next couple weeks to finish enjoying my Christmas gifts (which include at least one unread Terry Pratchett book and a dozen or so unwatched episodes of Firefly). :)
