Something I learned today: extraterrestrial law is NOT the same as extraterritorial law. The field of extraterrestrial law as such does not exist. There is space law, but it is not the same thing. So, if there is anyone out there interested in extraterrestrial law, the area is currently wide open. Make your mark!
This is what happens when you should put your reading glasses on to read a title before typing it into a search field and decide eh, the type is big enough I can read it. Silly Stef. You should know better by now.
The Middles have moved to Almost Finished and that is a good thing because there are gobs of books I want to dive into and um, I am also about to be deluged by books from the library. Maybe not deluged, more like showered. I have China Mieville’s newest, The Census-Taker waiting for me to pick up. It is a novella so shouldn’t take too long to get through. In theory. Then I am next up for The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie. I am looking forward to this especially since I got the second volume of Squirrel Girl from the library last week. The squirrels are lively right now and I need some squirrel literature to help me feel less animosity towards them and their garden-destroying ways. I am also next up for Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Mulligan. I have been waiting for that one a very long time.
That’s not bad. Only a few library books. A light shower. And I should be able to get back to the Richard Mabey book, The Cabaret of Plants, that I had to set aside for Herman Melville and Charlotte Brontë and Tarot Cards.
I have a feeling, however, that very soon it is going to get difficult to juggle reading and all my other goings on — the chickens, finishing the coop, gardening and cycling. Cycling is becoming a major “distraction” at the moment. I have a professional bike fitting scheduled for this coming Sunday. I just found out there is a women’s racing team here called Koochella and they are offering a clinic April 10th on bike handling skills and racing for beginners. Having enjoyed some virtual races over the winter months I am curious about the real thing. Then I have another cycling clinic on April 24th for the gravel race I registered for at the end of May. This one is informational, the how-tos of gravel riding like tires and what to wear and bring for food and how to read a cue sheet (route map) so I don’t get lost because it is not a closed course or well-marked with fans and media lining the roads. After the two clinics I will have a better idea about how much I want to try racing and how much time it might take up if I do.
So perhaps I should read as much as I can these next couple of weeks just in case reading time ends up being cut back significantly. I have a four-day weekend coming up in honor of my birthday so if I can tear myself away from cooing over the Dashwoods I will be reading. Say, maybe I could read to the Dashwoods! Do you think they’d like Jane Eyre?
All the best with all the non reading stuff you’re taking on. Remember the benefits of reading as your squirrel empathy is developed by Squirrel Girl!
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Thanks Ian! Oh yes, I am working on the squirrel empathy and who knows what other benefits I might find in reading too!
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Definitely start the Dashwoods off early to reading, so they’ll grow up loving books! 😉 You do sound busy, but a good busy and isn’t it nice that the weather is (mostly) turning more springlike and you can actually do things (or think about doing things) outside again. As for loads of reading material….I think I am watching the horizon for a threat of serious downpours!
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Danielle, early and often to create good readers 🙂 We’ve had some really nice days but of course those are during the work week! Very soon the weekends will be more consistently nice. I am going to have to find some iron will or I will be having some bookish downpours for certain. It’s so hard to say no! 🙂
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You might want to start the Dashwoods off with something a little less daunting than Jane Eyre…until they are old enough for chapter books, anyway. Start with something like the Mrs. Goose (not Mother Goose) series by Miriam Clark Potter: Mrs. Goose and Her Funny Friends, Hello Mrs. Goose, Just Mrs. Goose. I absolutely loved that series and they were my usual library fare until I discovered The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and chapter books. They can graduate into more substantial literature. Then, before you know it, they’ll be demanding Virginia Woolf or Aeschylus. But don’t rush their childhood…it lasts such a short time after all! (If I knew how to add a winking emoji here, I would).
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Grad, Heh, you’re funny 🙂 I’m not sure stories about geese are appropriate though, it might make them feel inadequate in some way. I don’t want Chicken Little to give them ideas. So maybe some stories about squirrels and rabbits, or frogs and toads. Their childhood will very brief so I will see what I can do 🙂
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Wait! Why is space law not the same thing as extraterrestrial law? I don’t get it!
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It’s my understanding that space law is an extension of international law into space and governs things like satellites and space exploration. Extraterrestrial law would require there to be aliens/land/ownership/colonies on other planets or moons. At least I am assuming it would, since it doesn’t exist I have great latitude 🙂
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I like reading “in progress” posts. They make me feel less alone in my simultaneous-multiple-book-reading insanity. 🙂
Happy soon-to-be Birthday!
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Laila, ha! I know! I like to read in progress posts too for the same reason 🙂 And thanks for the birthday wishes!
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The clinics sound interesting, Stefanie. I look forward to reading your thoughts on it. 🙂
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Thanks Deepika, I will be sure to share the experience 🙂
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Hmmm, I think it would be an insult to the Dashwoods to read them Jane Eyre, given the Brontë’s insults about Austen, but if you didn’t tell them who the author was you may get away with it.
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Grand plans! I am really excited to hear about your biking trips! By the way, this may be a cliche, but why not read Sense and Sensibility to the Dashwoods?:)
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