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Jan. 12th, 2009 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsMy first act on returning to work today was to spill Diet Coke all over myself. Auspicious! Vacation is very over. D:
It was awesome while it lasted, though - lots of wandering around the city and hearing three or four different versions of the same bit of history, eating some unfamiliar things, playing Apples to Apples with my family (we should never have introduced my mom to it, she is OBSESSED) and sitting around the beach and reading. A lot of sitting around the beach and reading. So basically, expect a lot of booklogging this week.
First, the very last book left unblogged 2008: The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why", by Amanda Ripley. My coworker lent me this one, because I'd told her I was trying to read more nonfiction and she had apparently been dying to talk about it with someone. Which is very cool, because I probably wouldn't have picked it up on my own and it turned out to be interesting! Basically, it's a book about disaster psychology, with case studies about different responses and helpful hints about what to do if you happen to get caught in your very own disaster scenarios. It made my coworker run out to figure out where the stairs were in our building; it did not make me do that, but it did at least get me to pay a little more attention to the safety video when I got on a plane this most recent time around. More interesting to me than the advice, though (because let's face it, with my coordination levels, there's no way I'm surviving any kind of major escape-requiring disaster) was the behavioral examination, which for the most part avoided over-simplification really well.
(But I was sad not to see 'zombie invasion' covered under case studies.)
It was awesome while it lasted, though - lots of wandering around the city and hearing three or four different versions of the same bit of history, eating some unfamiliar things, playing Apples to Apples with my family (we should never have introduced my mom to it, she is OBSESSED) and sitting around the beach and reading. A lot of sitting around the beach and reading. So basically, expect a lot of booklogging this week.
First, the very last book left unblogged 2008: The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why", by Amanda Ripley. My coworker lent me this one, because I'd told her I was trying to read more nonfiction and she had apparently been dying to talk about it with someone. Which is very cool, because I probably wouldn't have picked it up on my own and it turned out to be interesting! Basically, it's a book about disaster psychology, with case studies about different responses and helpful hints about what to do if you happen to get caught in your very own disaster scenarios. It made my coworker run out to figure out where the stairs were in our building; it did not make me do that, but it did at least get me to pay a little more attention to the safety video when I got on a plane this most recent time around. More interesting to me than the advice, though (because let's face it, with my coordination levels, there's no way I'm surviving any kind of major escape-requiring disaster) was the behavioral examination, which for the most part avoided over-simplification really well.
(But I was sad not to see 'zombie invasion' covered under case studies.)
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Date: 2009-01-13 02:47 am (UTC)Also, icon request my friend.
Picture this: Mytho, holding his sword in a very heroic manner, with the words "I'm going to kill a giant!"
Huh? Huuuuh? ( ﾟ ヮﾟ)
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Date: 2009-01-13 04:57 am (UTC). . . . *SHINY EYES* This is a request I will absolutely have to fulfill!
(Alternately? Same words/image, tiny Fakir!)
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Date: 2009-01-13 05:06 am (UTC)(Yes and yes.)
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Date: 2009-01-14 02:36 am (UTC)(Other non-fiction you might like, if I haven't recommended it to you yet: Laura Miller's The Magician's Book.)
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Date: 2009-01-14 05:51 am (UTC)(Oooh, I do not think you have - what is it about?)
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Date: 2009-01-14 11:42 am (UTC)