Last night, fleurdeleo and I met up at the new wine bar in my neighborhood and had a very enjoyable dinner and split a bottle of wine. That was a lot of wine. It was Prail sauvignon blanc, and it was very good. Then I had a glass of moscato with dessert (she had the brachetto), which was also very good; moscato always reminds me of my grandmother and aunt, since it was one of the things they used to like to drink.

So I watched Castle when I got home, but I can't really tell you if I enjoyed it. Then I went to bed and slept all the way through the night.

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Yesterday, I finished reading The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and I thought it was really good. I don't think I could say I enjoyed it - it's too sad for that - but I feel like I learned a lot, and even though I didn't always understand the chemistry or biology, I got the gist of what he was saying. It's really well written and worth the time it took (it took longer because sometimes I couldn't read it while I was eating lunch, or because it made me all teary so I didn't want to read it on the subway). The one complaint I have about the Kindle edition is that because of the way it's formatted, the book ends 64% into the document. I was like, "How are there still almost two hundred pages left? He's totally wrapping it up here!" and then I was right and it ended, but there were still a ton of pages left, full of notes, illustrations, acknowledgements and an index.

Anyway, I would recommend it, though possibly not if you're sensitive around the subject of cancer.

And this weekend, I read Nextwave: Agents of HATE by Warren Ellis. Did one of you recommend this to me? I can't recall. It's pretty hilarious - I laughed out loud a few times ("Fear my robot head!" "Nothing good can come of a robot in a bra!") - but there's no character arcs or development or anything. It's just, as advertised, five superheroes beating up monsters and blowing shit up. It is a pretty funny satire of team books, I thought, and though it's also possible I don't have enough obscure knowledge to get all the jokes, I think I got most of them. Also, Monica Rambeau is awesome, though I'm confused as to how both Marvel & DC wound up being able to use the Captain Marvel name. Don't explain! I prefer to imagine some kind of titanic copyright struggle, with skullduggery on both sides, that ended in a stalemate, except that most people think of the DC version if you say "Captain Marvel" so they clearly won the PR battle. (Probably the last PR battle they ever won, but let's not talk about that now.)

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Lastly, I posted a story yesterday:

The Weather Inside (at AO3)
Under the Red Hood; Dick/Jason; adult; 4,020 words
"I thought you weren't in the mood for games." "I thought you were."

I originally started this last Christmas Eve, as a yuletide treat, but I'd misread the request (I can't remember exactly how), and so the story ended up taking on a life of its own (this is the story where they just wouldn't take off their damn pants for the longest time), and I was stalled out for a while, but eventually I figured out how to fix it, and it is finally done, either ten months late or two months early for Christmas.

I'm also amused that the last two stories I've posted have been Christmassy, and both feature someone sneaking into someone else's apartment to leave a present. Things get a little pornier in this one, though. *snerk* And it's not in second person.

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