Sep. 23rd, 2011

inmyriadbits: (tequilalimeotp)
So, remember how I joined a soccer team? I went to my first practice with them on Wednesday, which was good fun -- my endurance is wretched, but my ball skills have not atrophied as much as I feared, and the teammates I met all seem very nice and out for a good time. They also seem delighted to have me, so that's good for the ego.

I had forgotten, though, just how much more it hurts the second day after. OH MY GOD. I went for a test run on our front steps (there are three) after waking up, and the first one nearly defeated me, which is awesome considering that my ENTIRE JOB consists of running up and down stairs all day. Good times lay ahead.

Of course, the significant amount of tequila I drank at my friend's going-away party last night probably haven't helped.

Just a theory.
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (bookslibrary)
A friend of mine moved to Nicaragua recently, for whom I scanned a few essays to PDF from my first edition copy of Dorothy L. Sayers' Unpopular Opinions, which I have mentioned here before. The book is out of print, and the essays are wretchedly difficult to find elsewhere; I thought some of you might be interested, so I've uploaded them to Mediafire as well:

Foreword

Aristotle on Detective Fiction

Are Women Human?

Forgiveness

I'm completely in love with "Aristotle on Detective Fiction," which uses Aristotle's Poetics to analyze the detective genre. Sayers was an Oxford-trained scholar and a popular writer during the golden age of detective fiction, so she knew whereof she spoke. It's also slyly hilarious in the best Sayers style.

"Are Women Human?" is one of the most sensible essays on feminism that I've read, and it was written in the 1930s; this is why I love Sayers. I really wish I could give it to some of the people I went to school with. "Forgiveness" was interesting, but I mostly scanned it for my friend's sake.

[ETA: new links 12/18/11]

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