That's what my dog does when getting bathed, just stands very still looking miserable. The cats, on the occasions when I had to try to bathe them for whatever reason, managed to levitate and run down my back leaving trails of blood.

I should do stuff around the house, but perhaps I will lounge and finish reading The Obelisk Gate first.

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH.

I got all mentally prepared, put on my earphones, and fired up the database to make some updates (because the person who usually does this for me left!), and.... I only had a half-hour in me. Ah well, better than nothing.

Sigh. The orders that we started prepping for before Thanksgiving, that I told the customer we were ready to receive two weeks ago, came in today with a note that they know there is a 5 business day lead time between receiving the POs and shipping the goods but can we please expedite as a promotion is ongoing. And we will, but come on.

Mmm, Obelisk Gate. I just started the Dreamblood Duology.

I just started the Dreamblood Duology.

I really liked those, but I think Jemisin's abilities have really improved between them & the Broken Earth books. So. good.

Can't argue with that. I started reading her with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and fell in love, and she just gets better with each book. I guess Dreamblood just came out in one volume? When I was reading all the short stories and novellas of hers I could find I decide to pre-order this rather than getting them separately, which put me in that enjoyable drop-everything-and-read-my-new-book space when I got the notice it was available.

So funny. I really don't love the Broken Earth books, but I adore all her earlier work.

I once had a dream that Satan fell in love with a girl named Masada, and her love made him compassionate, and that made G-d so angry He tried to kill them with lightning bolts but they got away by hiding inside a mountain. I don't know why I remember that dream.

Because that would make a pretty good three issue run of Sandman.

I spent about half an hour standing around an upscale gift shop sniffing super fancy expensive candles to decide which one to get for my deluxe candle aficianado.

The winner: [link]

Ooh, that looks nice.

I am checking off to-do items like a motherfucker. Since work, went to TJ's, started pork spread, wrote notes to my team. Check check check!! (On the pork, I threw in a little bacon fat and a little crisco and it looks to be OK. We'll see.)

Dear body

This is a stupid time to come down with a cold. Please just don't. We'll take a sick day in January if you can pull it together for the days we already have off.