i'm sitting in the kitchen. the windows are open, but i've left the blinds down, and there are people laughing in the street. i was listening to an old episode of old harry's game and i just wanted to say that i'm a great admirer of andy hamilton. i was being asked paradise lost questions last week by a miltonist and i could barely suppress the andy hamilton jokes to answer.

thud and night watch home; now i have no comfort books with me (having also sent off my wimseys and cassons.) i resorted to reading quotes and annotations on L-space. fortunately, or so i thought, guards, guards! came on on bbc7 - oh good! i said, genuinely surprised and pleased, i shall listen to it instead of rushing out to buy a watch book, but this was very foolish of me. guards was being serialised in six episodes - and i discovered you only get one a week. i couldn't possibly stand the wait - i'd practically be in australia by the time it finishes. also it's reminded me that i don't reread the earlier four watch books as often as i do the last three - so i do rather want to read this one. widener library is on summer hours, and i owe the cambridge public library $14 which they'd make me pay as soon as i go to check books out - it's no good - i could buy myself three copies of pratchett and have them to keep with the same amount, couldn't i? having just put it like that i realise my course is decided - obviously the thing to do is to go out and buy one. so i shall. back in a bit.

p.s. they gave carrot an irish/welsh accent. it really is not right.

i am back from the bookstore - i have bought a copy of thrones, dominations which was out in paperback, you see. it's a book i have mixed feelings about - this review captures some of what i feel - though overall, accepting it in its own right, and accepting it as "non-canon," it was a good novel, and i suppose i long for more wimsey that i am glad for it anyway.

and i got guards of course.