Stars and conversations
Feb. 8th, 2012 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraA surprisingly pleasant afternoon in New London yesterday. I handled a variety of errands both personal and professional, had a chance to catch up with my mother over tea, and enjoyed dinner with a couple of astronomer friends.
(Students: I’m working on arranging a visit from one of them, likely in March, to talk about the new telescope designs and related charms. I promise she’s a lot more interesting than that description sounds, and she has some very funny - in hindsight, anyway - stories about ways the charms went wrong in testing.)
I came back to find a draft article waiting for my comments, too. Those of you who’ve helped with data collection for the royal star project may want to have a look, as it talks about the process to date and some of the early results. Copy will be up in my office, of course.
(Students: I’m working on arranging a visit from one of them, likely in March, to talk about the new telescope designs and related charms. I promise she’s a lot more interesting than that description sounds, and she has some very funny - in hindsight, anyway - stories about ways the charms went wrong in testing.)
I came back to find a draft article waiting for my comments, too. Those of you who’ve helped with data collection for the royal star project may want to have a look, as it talks about the process to date and some of the early results. Copy will be up in my office, of course.
Re: Private Message to Aurora Sinistra
Date: 2012-02-09 12:49 am (UTC)And yes, quite, on the matter of Mister Diggory. Though honestly, I'm more proud of him every day for handling it as well as he is, and setting the example he is. (And especially since he's got nothing like the more overt support of the other champions.)
Re: Private Message to Aurora Sinistra
Date: 2012-02-09 01:41 am (UTC)It's been good to chat with you, my dear, but I fear my pile of parchments to mark may start to grow legs and devour my houseplants if I leave it any longer.
Re: Private Message to Aurora Sinistra
Date: 2012-02-09 02:14 am (UTC)And you know I've been keeping an eye on him, as much as I can. He got a few treats from Mum's latest, too, mind.
Excellent to chat with you, as well, but I quite know the problem of the looming parchments.
(And goodness. Responding to Narcissa still ties my fingers in knots. At least it's a distraction from indexing all the YPL messages.)
Do have a wonderful night.