{"id":3744,"date":"2006-12-07T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/12\/07\/3744.html"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T03:55:29","slug":"general-notes-plus-more-crusie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/12\/07\/general-notes-plus-more-crusie\/","title":{"rendered":"General notes, plus more Crusie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes I am a little grumpy and a little glum, due mostly to having been sick on and off for the past week, and also to being tired, and generally groggy, and having too much on my to-do list. And then sometimes I pick up the reissue of Jennifer Crusie's 1996 book Anyone But You<\/cite>, which I bought the other day despite the fact that more books are approximately the last thing I need at the moment (with the possible exception of more coughing and runny noses, or more muzzy brains, or more to-do items), and I start reading, and within a couple of pages I'm laughing out loud, or at least grinning.<\/p>\n

As usual with the older Crusie books (unlike most of the newer Crusie books), there's not much substance to it. Forty-year-old Nina, recently divorced and new owner of a morose basset\/beagle mix named Fred, meets her neighbor Alex, a thirty-year-old ER doctor whose family (all prestigious doctors) want him to settle down into a more prestigious doctorhood. You can predict pretty much the whole plot (so far, anyway--I'm only a third of the way through it) from that description.<\/p>\n

But as is often true with all the Crusie books, it's so damn charming that I don't care at all. Who needs a plot when you've got this much charm? Also, this book doesn't require more brainpower than I can currently muster, which at the moment is a rare and valuable attribute in a book.<\/p>\n

But now that I've read a couple pages of it and cheered up, I really ought to get back to Getting Things Done. Or else give up and sleep.<\/p>\n

(My sleep pattern has been even crazier than usual lately. Several nights of 5 hours or less, punctuated by one night when I got 10 hours of (only mildly interrupted) sleep. That was a good night. Perhaps I'll try to replicate it.)<\/p>\n

I suppose I could take this opportunity to mention that Stephanie was in town this past weekend, and that I went to Beth & Catie's housewarming (very efficient of them to have one so soon; I've been here three years and still haven't had mine), and that I've made significant progress on my father's books but still have a bunch of them on my living room floor, and that we decided today on a Plan for my back yard (in theory, they'll start ripping out the deck and everything else in a week and a half), and I could even mention my new sf-related website that isn't quite ready for public consumption yet. But I'm not gonna mention any of that, because, as noted above, I really ought to get back to Getting Things Done. So here I go.<\/p>\n

No, really. I go. \"Yes, forward on the foe<\/a>,\" and all that.<\/p>\n

This time I mean it. Really.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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