Sick again, from sitting in an alternately too hot and too cold room for four and a half hours in a department meeting virtually without a break. If I hadn't asked for one, I'm not sure we would have gotten one. So now I have a sore throat, cough and stuffed head and didn't sleep well last night.
From whence this arises, courtesy of Miss Snark, who is a literary agent:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Page 123, Sentence five of Jennifer Ouellette's Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, which is sitting on my desk because I intend to do a longer review of it for both my site and Amazon, as soon as the Highfields' book is done:
By opening a camera's shutter for a split second, you expose the crystals to light and transfer energy from the photons to the silver halide crystals.
This from the chapter, "Shadow Casters—February 2, 1893: Edison Films a Sneeze." It was either that or Fowler's Modern English Usage. All my books not related to writing or software are in the bedroom.
Speaking of which, I'm getting a new bookcase today, so I'd better get my butt dressed, and clear out the old shelves to make way for the new.
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