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I don't really have anything to say.   Except congrats again Shannon on becoming an aunt!

I am just being silly because I do not have to be in class for another 11 days.  O.O  Whoa.  I do not know what to do with myself.  And I managed to get the best schedule ever:  Mondays 8-11:40 and Tuesday 9-8.  No TDC next semester, either! 

I just have to say, it makes me feel very cozy, to be in bed reading and have all the cats in bed with me (Oz is usually on me; it's like he's not convinced I am sincere in my petting unless he is draped over my chest).  Even Olive, I am always faintly surprised when she actually sits still for a minute and wants me to pet her.  She's still pretty wild, even for a kitten. 

And now, what I have been most anxiously waiting for, I finally was able to read the new Valdemar book, Foundation.  !!!  I was not disapointed, at all.  It was the literary equivalent of wrapping myself in a warm fleece blankie and sipping a mug of hot cocoa in front of a fire.  I know that they tend to get a little formulaic; mistreated youth grows up in adversity, finds out she/he has special powers, and ends up saving the kingdom, or at least something else heroic.  There are some deviations from the pattern; Exile's Honor and Exile's Valor for two.  That was something I think you would like, Shannon.  It's one of those, what you call, bilgunsomething.  Anyway.  I feel to lazy right now to give it a proper review.  But really, mistreated youth grows up in adversity, finds out he has special powers, and ends up savig the kingdom really sums it up, although he hasn't saved the kingdom (yet, I imagine that will come in the following books).