I can't figure out if my pants have somehow got bigger, or if I just woke up thin this morning. I seem to be showing a highly unhealthy amount of midriff. I didn't even know it went down that far.

Today in brief: too much reading of novel. It is now finished. Third book by Jennifer Fallon - Harshini, it's called. Highly readable. Immensely readable. Not brilliant. Before this novel I wouldn't even have said very good. This concluding volume to the trilogy was, I think, better than the preceding too. Everything matured, came to fruition. It was more considered, I think, and much more interesting for it. Not counting, of course, the errors where the minutiae of expression had been overlooked in the rush to get it to the publishers. But for once the relations sorting themselves out in a non-linear fashion really, really worked for me. I felt immense satisfaction. Job well-done there, Ms Fallon. Plus the growth of R'Shiel was excellent.

More about today: Daylight saving. Stupid bloody idea. I needed that hour. Of course, I get in back in March, April, whenever, but who needs a fucking hour in March? Honestly.

In conclusion: Fnord.