And all this, for just $9.95!!

[the_benj]

So, I spent $9.95 today.

This amuses me.

It was split neatly into:

$3.00 - Train ticket to Central
$3.95 - One (1) copy of The Minotaur takes a cigarette break (this month's Book Club (justonemorepage) volume of choice)
$3.00 - Train ticket home from Central

Lunch was free, provided for "Men's Health Day". Mmm, delicious orange. Also sausages inna bun, though these were less delicious (certainly more meaty, however).
Also a cookbook, a condom and some other jive!
I'm not convinced that "Men's Health Day" is as valid a response to "Women's Health Day" so much as simply making it "Health Day" would be, but two days of free stuff is acceptable, say I.

Morning class (before lunch, naturally; I'm just playing with narrative structure, it would appear) was okay. Due to more train screw-ups, I was fourty-five minutes late.
But then I completed the assessment, a quarter of my "major" project and was out of there half an hour early, so no big loss, hey what?

Mosied up to Manning. FrenchSoc waved complimentary croissants at me.
People were around, for conversing.
I lent Danny (*waves in the direction where Danny's journal would lie, if it existed*) A game of thrones, which he already seems to be enjoying.

Dan (danoot) - in between cries that I was a torus - attempted to woo me into coming along to his Maths tute.
I was sorely tempted (I've been feeling sorely under-edjumakated in the mathemagical scientistics of late, DYS?), but I declined.

Which is a shame, because this would have made my uni class attendance two-thirds tutorials, which amuses me greatly.
I'm a little doubtful that I could repeat my previous tute performance with Maths, even if it was a first-year tute, however. Especially I know for a fact that at least one other person would be a clever-clever, what with Dan being there.

So instead I stayed behind and wagged chin with droogs.
And beat Luke soundly, for insisting upon calling matrices "matrixes".
Heh, that took eight attempts to type, as my fingers were simply refusing to type "matrixes" without incredible effort.

"I am Latin reincarnate, come to destroy you, Luke!"

Read a bit of The Minotaur.... It's tops, so far.

One afternoon (and a liberal quantity of grumbling about totally not feeling like going to class) later, I headed to my evening class.
Which wasn't torturous, I suppose.
I spent the class doing the last task out of the excercise book for the class. Which is, of course, two tasks ahead of what I was meant to be doing.
Near the end of the class, we got answers passed around for the task everyone else was finishing, so I checked my work and fiddled with bits, for neatness.

For neatness!

One of the lasses in my class, Kel, gave me a mini-toblerone. It's mini!
I munched at it gently on my way to the train station.
Passing a homeless guy who was begging, I donated about half of it to him. He seemed very happy with this result.

After class, I dropped into Tom (furpants_tom) and Julia's (juliadactyl) to watch Law & order : SVU with Julia.
Tom arrived home (from working on a presentation at Fisher) about halfway through the show, bearing curry.
So I got fed some more!
Hurrah!

A pretty good day :)
Apart from missing certain people. :(

Furthermore: In looking up "torus" to be certain I had the spelling correct, I rediscovered Greg Egan's website (which is no surprise, as that's where I searched for in said quest, as I knew it was there.
So now I'm reading The Planck dive*. Mmm, Greg Egan. Scrumptious quantum physics-based fiction.

Now I must flail my limbs wildly until Harry (hswift) gives me more Egan novels (I've only read Diaspora and i>Permutation City). But first I should dig through more of the other things that are atop this pile.
Accursed queuing system!

* Also I reiterate my approval for putting your works up on the web, for cheap-as-free enjoyment.

Comments

[danoot.livejournal.com]

gorra copy of Axiomatic here, iffn you want it.

Fourty?

Really?

[hswift.livejournal.com]

I have Quarantine, Teranesia, Schild's Ladder and Axiomatic with me now. Distress and Luminous are currently on loan, and I am unlikely to see them until next semester. I don't know how to get them to you. P&G?

The Planck Dive hurts my brain. I think that was a story where I preferred the characters to the crazy stuff.