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Oct. 8th, 2008 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsToday: relatively pleasant and peaceful.
Tomorrow: all hell breaks loose, as I try to do a.) my own work, as scheduled; b.) the work of my immediate supervisor, who is off for a week getting married (which, yay! I am very happy for her, though it means not so much fun for me) and c.) attempt to find occupation the new trainee who has been dubbed by the boss Not Experienced Enough to do anything helpful without immediate supervision that takes up time that I need to do my work and my spuervisor's work. Training, I add, from my vast experience of 1.5 months on the job. All on no food and, more distressingly, no caffeine from sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow.
So, uh, if you see any screaming, flailing or meltdowns from me in the middle of the day tomorrow, don't take me too seriously, is all I'm saying.
Anyways, while I'm here: brief booklogging, since I have gotten behind again. Nnedi Okoborafur-Mbachu's Zahrah the Windseeker is fairly standard YA in plot - girl is Different from peers, nervous and insecure, goes on a successful quest, encounters Strange Things, gains confidence and returns a self-actualized hero - but stands out due to the extremely cool Africa-based AU civilization, which is definitely not something you see enough of in any kind of fantasy lit. It was a fun read but I didn't adore it, I think in large part because it was very much a journey of Self-Discovery and there really wasn't much behind the interpersonal interactions. (Also possibly because I read it shortly after The Sunbird, which despite being similar in the way that it spends much of its time following a young character on a solitary journey of self-discovery manages to put a whole lot of feeling and depth into the relationships that that character has with other people.) However, I will still definitely be reading Okorafor's other published book, partly because I think this one read like a first novel, and, uh, partly because it is recced on the back by Diana Wynne Jones.
Tomorrow: all hell breaks loose, as I try to do a.) my own work, as scheduled; b.) the work of my immediate supervisor, who is off for a week getting married (which, yay! I am very happy for her, though it means not so much fun for me) and c.) attempt to find occupation the new trainee who has been dubbed by the boss Not Experienced Enough to do anything helpful without immediate supervision that takes up time that I need to do my work and my spuervisor's work. Training, I add, from my vast experience of 1.5 months on the job. All on no food and, more distressingly, no caffeine from sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow.
So, uh, if you see any screaming, flailing or meltdowns from me in the middle of the day tomorrow, don't take me too seriously, is all I'm saying.
Anyways, while I'm here: brief booklogging, since I have gotten behind again. Nnedi Okoborafur-Mbachu's Zahrah the Windseeker is fairly standard YA in plot - girl is Different from peers, nervous and insecure, goes on a successful quest, encounters Strange Things, gains confidence and returns a self-actualized hero - but stands out due to the extremely cool Africa-based AU civilization, which is definitely not something you see enough of in any kind of fantasy lit. It was a fun read but I didn't adore it, I think in large part because it was very much a journey of Self-Discovery and there really wasn't much behind the interpersonal interactions. (Also possibly because I read it shortly after The Sunbird, which despite being similar in the way that it spends much of its time following a young character on a solitary journey of self-discovery manages to put a whole lot of feeling and depth into the relationships that that character has with other people.) However, I will still definitely be reading Okorafor's other published book, partly because I think this one read like a first novel, and, uh, partly because it is recced on the back by Diana Wynne Jones.
