a little bit of everything

[harborshore]

I'm not sure how it became Sunday without my noticing it, but I most emphatically do not approve. It's also the Sunday Europe switches over to Daylight Savings Time, which means I'm supposed to have one more hour than I have, dammit, and my take-home exam is intimidating me a little.

Some things about this week:

1. Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day, and when I think about women in technology, I will always think about my mother. She went back to school at 32 to get her undergraduate degree in mathematics, and ended up learning programming despite never having seen a computer before. Today, she's a nuclear physicist, working in enormous cyclotrons with equipment that ranges from state-of-the-art to almost-falling-to-pieces; she writes her own simulations and teaches herself new programming languages every now and then, just because. And she wants me to teach her CSS, as soon as I get better at it (because lord knows I suck right now, but I'll learn).
   
   
2. MCR's twitter continues to be a source of JOY and ADORABLENESS, even when (especially when) Frank bitches about grammar or Bob makes fun of everyone. Also, it's now canon that they're sort of at a loss without their wives--the entire band spent hours and hours on twitter the night their wives went to a show. I'm ridiculous, I know it, but that band and the way they love their awesome significant others makes me so happy. (Did you know Lindsey is awesome at oil painting? (AND EVERYTHING EVER?) &THEM;
   
   
3. Another source of JOY is Georgette Heyer: I spent all my in-between time last Friday (subway, lunch, subway, fifteen minutes in the dressing room at the swimming pool) finishing Friday's Child, which was delightful and caused my inner monologue to sound like a Regency novel for the rest of the night. Be glad I didn't post then, it was very ridiculous. If anyone has read a lot of Heyer and could tell me which one to read next, I'd be most grateful. I want ones that end like this one, with the couple being on equal footing (my politics are showing, I'm aware), because an ending where the girl is a silly little idiot who needs taking care of will spoil the whole book for me. It's fine if she starts out that way, but not if she doesn't develop.
   
   
4. The fic I've been bitching about for a month and a half is so close to done, I can't even. The course which is partly to blame for the fic taking this long is also almost over--Tuesday I turn in the aforementioned take-home exam, and then I am FREE...to do research for my mini-thesis. Which is, at least, a lot more fun.
   
   
5. Lastly, thank you (you as in plural, obviously) for the support and the help and the beta-reading and the compliments and the everything, really. ♥

Comments

[nightlilac.livejournal.com]

Now I want to re-read Friday's Child again! Georgette Heyer is pretty good at strong-willed heroines and love stories that end in a 'marriage of true minds', so I could just go on and on recommending books, but I think you might like The Nonesuch or The Grand Sophy, or Venetia. (And I really envy you, getting to read them for the first time!)

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

There seriously is nothing quite as awesome as getting to read The Grand Sophy for the first time. ♥ ♥ &Sophy;

(in other words, read that one next!)

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Hee, I totally will. :D

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

\o/!!!!


my favorite Heyer books, in a rough approximation of order:

1.These Old Shades (which isn't regency OR hits your requirements from above, but seriously, read it anyway. It ALWAYS makes me flap my hands with glee)

2. Devil's Cub (which continues with the family in #1)

3. Frederica (omg, read this one after Sophy. *flappy hands*)

4. The Grand Sophy

5. The Convenient Marriage

6. The Masqueraders

and then every other book she ever wrote, pretty much. \o/

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Oooh, fantastic! I shall start with 3 and 4 and save the rest for my post-research and big bang reward.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you! The reason I asked is I read Faro's Daughter before this one, and the ending there, well, let's just say I didn't like it. But I loved Hero and her scrapes, and I reread the last chapter about three times on the bus home on Friday.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

I love Georgette Heyer! My favourites are Reluctant Widow (which has an excellent heroine), Black Moth and Sylvester.

Re d. YAY! I'm trying to finish my post-op Bob fic because my big bang is too stressful.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I have an awesome list now. *beams*

Oooh, fantastic! That fic is also fabulous and I'm really glad you're finishing it.:D And as far as advice about the story-related stress goes, here's what you told me: really, however big a story is, it's really only a collection of scenes so if you look at it that way and just work on them one by one it should be less scary? *nudges* It's going to be so great.