[booklog 2005]

46. Sunshine, Robin McKinley. another on lend from jencallisto, and another that i'm tempted to pick up and re-read not three days after i finished it. magic and vampires and cinnamon buns.

47. The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan. i'm pretty sure i read this before, some number of years ago. she's good, but i think my mind wasn't in the right space for the book to really reach out and grab me.

...and now i'm out of new books to read, again. but i ran into asarwate this afternoon, and he said he'd lend me a pile more, and i should really get back to the library as well. i hear they've got books and all.

it's a small world...

work was slow today, and i was bored, so i was poking through Analytical Chemistry online. it was very odd to realize that the reason the name of the second author of the top article sounded kinda familiar was that, as it happens, she was my next-door neighbor during my third year at MIT/Haus. and the work's even roughly in my field, too, so i pretty much understood the whole article.
which reminds me: i noticed another MIT/Haus person's name in the presentation listings for this year's MicroTAS, too. haven't seen her in years, and last i knew she was doing aero/astro. ...and it turns out that an MIT person who i first met in New Mexico five or six years ago went on a field-test trip this summer to the Atacama desert with my boss, one of the grad students from my lab, and a whole pile of chips that i made.
freaky.
sometimes the small-world thing is neat, and sometimes it makes me want to move out to a little adobe house out in the high-desert middle of nowhere and let my world get bigger again.

[edit: Anal Chem updated this evening. the article's in the July 15 issue rather than the Aug. 1 issue.]