bento

bottom layer:
hummus
raw baby carrots
corn ships

top layer:
2 chocolate chip cookies
corn chips
peanut butter

apparently

The odor of natural gas is blanketing the city and 911 is receiving hundreds of calls about it and no one knows what's going on.

(no subject)

They are assuring us the smell isn't dangerous and that it's not a massive gas leak. They think it's some sort of leak or spill of the chemical they add to gas to make it smell like gas. This would be reassuring, but let's remember, they also told people to stay in the towers.

Meanwhile, masses of dead birds have closed parts of Austin.

All of this coupled with the freak weather, and I imagine some people are looking at their watches and hoping the Rapture comes before their lunch break is over.

I have fencing tonight. This makes me happy.

books

I finished Fall of the Kings the other day (and I have a lot to say about it, probably on _riverside, when I have time, although I am uncertain of when that will be).

This leaves the question of what to read next. Kali got me a Guy Gavriel Kay book for Christmas, and I've never read any of his work and her book choices for me have always been excellent, but it's hardcover, and so ill-suited to subway reading (much better suited to when I am less busy and can read it in a weekend or am stranded on a set). I have The Grass Crown onhand, but with ROME starting again this weekend, that could get muddy in my head, so I think I want to wait. I could also pick up the next Kushiel book, but as much as I hated to leave that world when I finished the first one the thought of reimersing myself in that world makes me vaguely nauseated at the moment, albeit for reasons of which I am not entirely sure. Perhaps I should finally start the Temeraire books, or for rare change, give my brain some damn space.

ETA: I'm an idiot. It wouldn't kill me to gobble down a couple of the fencing texts on our recommended list.