Today I went back to my four online ethics classes in the morning (well, one starting at midday directly after an 11am). This had been interrupted for the past several weeks by my university teaching on Monday afternoon, which meant I had to move one or two classes to Tuesday instead. But now the semester has ended I’ve got them all back on Monday. Which meant some students could return; ones who couldn’t make the replacement Tuesday classes.
After those I walked Scully up to my wife’s work to drop her off for the afternoon. I would have just caught the train back home, but today was a fare-free day on the trains. The New South Wales State Government announced it as a compensation for multiple train service interruptions last week caused by the bad weather. So I took advantage of this and caught a train into the city instead, to check out some book and game shops.
I planned to visit several of my favourite shops, but unfortunately a rain front was approaching and I realised I could be caught in the rain on the way home, without an umbrella, and carrying books, if I didn’t hurry. So I restricted myself to one book shop and game shop, and raced abck home. I bought one book: Raina Telgemeier’s Guts, the third of her graphic novels, and the only one so far I hadn’t bought. I realised this after I recently got her most recent work—The Cartoonist’s Club—a few weeks ago.
I had a very quick browse of the game shop, and dithered over buying a copy of the Pendragon roleplaying game book, but decided not to. Then I raced home. It was just starting to rain as I got off the train and sprinted home with my book (in a non-waterproof paper bag!). I made it without getting too wet, and the book didn’t get wet, so that was good.
Now I have another book in my to-read queue! 😃