Bah (aka the Best Laid Plans)
Mar. 9th, 2004 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Yeah, so, today was the day I was allowed to sign up for summer courses. So, naturally, I tried to sign up for the one course I need to graduate, the one I was talking about earlier. No dice. It's offered, but it's already full. Which means instead of graduating this summer, the earliest will be next Christmas. And that's assuming I get into the class in Sept (I can't even sign up for that until later).
I'll keep trying occasionally, sometimes someone drops out of the course before it actually starts, but I don't have very high hopes. I suppose with this in play there's still the chance that I'll move out and maybe even quit school without even getting that course, but chances aren't good. Pity, I was sort of looking forward to it.
Oh, yeah, and I feel like I didn't sleep at all last night. Yay.
Anyway, Book Foo:
Finished: Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl
Started: Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntyre
Minor spoilers after cut tag.
Man Plus started out fairly interesting... really, it wasn't so much the physical alterations they made to him that held my interest, but rather the slight emotional manipulations people behind the scenes were engaged in, in order to make the cyborg continue, and to distract him from thoguhts of his wife, who he was starting to suspect was unfaithful to him (and who was, in fact). That, combined with the whole alteration to his sensory system such that what he saw was sometimes filtered out, to avoid overloading him with too much irrelevant data, and how that affected his perceptions. Near the end, though, the book took a twist that, although it sort of left some of the ongoing plot without resolution, nevertheless made the story a lot more enjoyable and the book on the whole, a lot cooler.
Dreamsnake is (I believe) set in the far future, long after a nuclear war which set back society a good bit, where healers travel the country with specially trained snakes with special healing properties. I'm not too far into it, but I'm enjoying it so far.
I'll keep trying occasionally, sometimes someone drops out of the course before it actually starts, but I don't have very high hopes. I suppose with this in play there's still the chance that I'll move out and maybe even quit school without even getting that course, but chances aren't good. Pity, I was sort of looking forward to it.
Oh, yeah, and I feel like I didn't sleep at all last night. Yay.
Anyway, Book Foo:
Finished: Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl
Started: Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntyre
Minor spoilers after cut tag.
Man Plus started out fairly interesting... really, it wasn't so much the physical alterations they made to him that held my interest, but rather the slight emotional manipulations people behind the scenes were engaged in, in order to make the cyborg continue, and to distract him from thoguhts of his wife, who he was starting to suspect was unfaithful to him (and who was, in fact). That, combined with the whole alteration to his sensory system such that what he saw was sometimes filtered out, to avoid overloading him with too much irrelevant data, and how that affected his perceptions. Near the end, though, the book took a twist that, although it sort of left some of the ongoing plot without resolution, nevertheless made the story a lot more enjoyable and the book on the whole, a lot cooler.
Dreamsnake is (I believe) set in the far future, long after a nuclear war which set back society a good bit, where healers travel the country with specially trained snakes with special healing properties. I'm not too far into it, but I'm enjoying it so far.
