what I am not

"I am more than just a code cruncher."

So said I this morning to my formerly-fellow-coordinator-and-now-my-coordinator. We may have once described ourselves as the Dynamic Duo, but we don't get along anymore now that the balance of power has changed. Today's latest was caused by her tossing a task to me after she discussed it with a third party instead of involving me from the word go in what is an area of our system of which I am THE expert.

a medicine for melancholy

I've been feeling a bit melancholy today and my choice of medicine was to either sip some Green Fairy, or go buy a book. I chose the latter and came back with not one but *two* books. One is Seanan McGuire's "Winter Long", an October Daye novel released this week. The other is the first volume in David Mack's "Star Trek: Seekers" series. It's been decades since I bought an ST novel, but I liked what Mack said when a fan criticized him for having homosexual characters in another ST novel. Also this novel's cover design was a clear homage to James Blish's novelizations of the original episodes, and this lifted my spirits without my imbibing any spirit.