Personal Note: That's no handsaw!

On the walk to work this morning I watched a flock of pigeons scatter into the sky, including one extremely well-fed -- wait, is that a seagull? -- no, by golly, it's a hawk! A healthy specimen, too: built like a linebacker. Evidently he wasn't too hungry for pigeon (or human) because he let the flock go, swooped over my head, and settled atop a piece of campus abstract sculpture, master of all he surveyed. Most abstract sculpture is improved by the addition of a roosting hawk, I think.

Fandom: Faith manages

Over at Making Light, Abi Sutherland is rewatching Babylon 5 and is moved to remark in a footnote:

My particular aim, back in the 1990's, was to grow up to be Susan Ivanova. Looking at the work I do now, I see that somewhere in the intervening years, I've pretty much achieved that. Now I can go on to my next goal, which is to grow up to be Cordelia Vorkosigan.

When I was younger, I wanted to grow up to be J.R.R. Tolkien, myself, but that didn't work. I'm not quite sure who I am now (so to speak) ... :-)

Random: And ere a man hath power to say, “Behold!” / The jaws of darkness do devour it up ...

Sniggled from metaquotes: The Ravenous Book-Eating Beast of Swindon.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.