I'm lazing around at home (big surprise there) playing Angband on the Sun, and feeling mildly virtuous. I did a chapter of Perl today, and a chunk out of my algebra book, although I got really fed up with it when I ran into:

2|3-5|-3|2-4|

Because I found it so incredibly unreadable. If anyone writes me problems like that I'd just as soon refuse to answer them until they add in some nice parentheses so I don't have to spend five minutes figuring out how things group. Although perhaps I merely do not have the proper appreciation for Obfuscated Mathematics. Or maybe someone with a more math-oriented brain than mine would've grasped it immediately, I don't know. Anyway, despite that bit of self-doubt, I accomplished both Perl and maths today, which is a goodness.

I'm a bit stalled book-wise right now, having finished up The Inklings, which was a light biography of C.S Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the rest of their little circle who gathered at in Lewis's rooms at Oxford on Thursday evenings to read whatever they were working on, and gathered at a pub on Tuesday mornings to drink beer and gossip. With that done I'm not sure where I'll go next; there's a book of stories that Lewis wrote when he was a child, titled Boxen, which I'm enjoying, but a little of it goes a long way. It's a nice, cute book to read before bed, but what about the rest of the time? There's a scholarly one on mythology in the Silmarillion which is lovely but after a few pages I want to put it down and write, which isn't best for reading in short periods. So what else? You'd think with 22 books out of the library I could find something appealing, wouldn't you? But I'm not in the mood for more Christian theology yet, which cuts out a chunk, and I want to finish the book of Tolkien analysis that I'm on before going to another one, and the cookbook isn't leisure reading, it's a reference source, and...

Hmn. I guess I really want to be reading sf right now, for the first time in a long time. Perhaps I'll try rereading Nobody's Son, since I just got it back from Dave and in talking to him remembered how utterly I enjoyed it a few years ago.