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Could friends who have borrowed books from me please check and see if you have Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time? I need it back and can't work out who actually borrowed it.

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I spent this morning resolving small problems. The only thing I've done that's of substance is an outline for my research for the next two years.

I meant to do some actual research, but I was relying on the memory that I had the books. Alas, time changes. When I looked, they were not there. Not where they ought to be, but also not where books-for-sorting wait for me to notice them. Not anywhere, in fact. That's why I sent out an appeal earlier for Uttley's novel. In fact, my copy of A Traveller in Time is so very read that it's falling to pieces (or was, when I last saw it), so I'm getting a new one. I still wouldn't mind my old one back, since I've had that copy since I first read it (early 70s?).

All this is exciting only to me. I've got the current virus, and it turns everything mundane. Books are half-read and thoughts are curiously unfinished. I have a bunch of messages that are all ready to happen, but I think will have to wait til tomorrow (Cat Sh. says I will be significantly improved very soon - she's already over her version of the virus).

Thursday is normally my day for exciting news. Well, my exciting news today is that I have work to do. I've got a few course proposals that must go in if I want to eat next year and I've got someone's manuscript to read, and I want to work on the cookbook for an hour (if I don't, it will niggle me and I'll worry I won't meet deadlines and so many people have been upset that the cookbook won't be out till this time next year, that I really don't want to think about what they'll say if it fails to appear at all) and, now I've got a workplan and an outline for the dissertation, I have absolutely no excuse not to do a bit of research.

Unexciting and unwell, but solid, that's today. It's also me. My secret identity. I need a superhero costume that represents these values: unexciting, unwell, solid. I'm totally awesome against supervillains because they look round and don't see a threat...

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PS When I was looking for my other missing books, I found the Delia Sherman book I was looking for before AussieCon so that I could introduce her with intelligence and verve. A bit late now. No intelligence and no verve: the other panellists were good, though (especially Sherman), and I'm going to re-read the book anyway. It's one of those books that's good to re-read.

PPS Yes, my library is in need of some sorting. Also in dire need of more shelving. There's lots of stacking and sneaking into gaps above other books going on right now.

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I did my messages! Small miracles. Also, my day was redeemed because Paul Ewins sent me the little namething for my Ditmar. A day cannot be completely bad when you get to stick your name on a big block of Ditmar.

Also, I have some really, really cool round-table interviews coming up on Bibliobuffet. Watch this space.