Three surprises must make a post
Jun. 5th, 2012 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance1) Surprise fiction: Aubrey, Maturin and I have reached HMS Surprise, and are currently becalmed in mid-Atlantic. Not for the first time, and probably not the last.
2) Surprise food: I thought I was having chicken curry for lunch; it turned out to be lamb-and-spinach. Which is sort of a double surprise, because I didn't recollect cooking lamb-and-spinach. (Karen rightly observes that it must've been leftovers brought back from a restaurant. Indeed, I do now recollect the occasion, the company, the dish in question. But oh, it's so unEnglish, fetching food home from a meal out...)
3) Surprise astronomy: Cliff's picking me up sometime in the next half-hour or so, and we're going to NASA to view the transit of Venus. Sheesh. How cool is that? What I reckon is, if Cook went halfway around the world to see this thing, I can travel, oh, a mile from my home, give or take. (NASA. On my doorstep. *giggles inanely*)
2) Surprise food: I thought I was having chicken curry for lunch; it turned out to be lamb-and-spinach. Which is sort of a double surprise, because I didn't recollect cooking lamb-and-spinach. (Karen rightly observes that it must've been leftovers brought back from a restaurant. Indeed, I do now recollect the occasion, the company, the dish in question. But oh, it's so unEnglish, fetching food home from a meal out...)
3) Surprise astronomy: Cliff's picking me up sometime in the next half-hour or so, and we're going to NASA to view the transit of Venus. Sheesh. How cool is that? What I reckon is, if Cook went halfway around the world to see this thing, I can travel, oh, a mile from my home, give or take. (NASA. On my doorstep. *giggles inanely*)