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I think I posted on LJ about the Mertensia nomenclature problem a while back - I finally figured it all out today. You can also read there about my adventures in vermicomposting, if you are so inclined.
Someday (and it is something I should take notes for as I go along) I need to write an essay about how historians fail fiction writers, without meaning to of course, but oh dear God it should not be so difficult to find out when things happened. Though the above example is more about people who blindly copy from Wikipedia failing fiction writers who are eccentric enough to name people after plants.
Speaking of historical fiction, I'm launched on reading another mystery series, which I'm quite impressed by: C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels, which I found out about by looking Thomas Cromwell up on Wikipedia (which is good for lots of things, really) after reading Wolf Hall. They are set slightly later (starting with Jane Seymour's death) but concern a lot of the same people and events (the first one is called Dissolution; you get the drift).
Early voting this evening! I would really have time on election day (next Tuesday) but I will be gardening all morning and getting on a plane in the early evening, and I don't want to count on fitting it in. And my 18-year-old will not be here then so has to vote now (his first time!), so I'll do it now too. We have been moved to a new congressional district, which provides some minor drama.
Someday (and it is something I should take notes for as I go along) I need to write an essay about how historians fail fiction writers, without meaning to of course, but oh dear God it should not be so difficult to find out when things happened. Though the above example is more about people who blindly copy from Wikipedia failing fiction writers who are eccentric enough to name people after plants.
Speaking of historical fiction, I'm launched on reading another mystery series, which I'm quite impressed by: C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels, which I found out about by looking Thomas Cromwell up on Wikipedia (which is good for lots of things, really) after reading Wolf Hall. They are set slightly later (starting with Jane Seymour's death) but concern a lot of the same people and events (the first one is called Dissolution; you get the drift).
Early voting this evening! I would really have time on election day (next Tuesday) but I will be gardening all morning and getting on a plane in the early evening, and I don't want to count on fitting it in. And my 18-year-old will not be here then so has to vote now (his first time!), so I'll do it now too. We have been moved to a new congressional district, which provides some minor drama.
