Also, happy birthday to
And otherwise, finished Unseen Academicals. With all allowances made for 'first time reading newly published Discworld in hardcover' which, truly, has a different feel from 'reading all of extant Discworld any way I can get it to catch up to everyone else', I really think this is one of the best in the series. As proved by the fact that the staff of UU did *not* get on my nerves as they customarily do, because ordinarily UU ranks down there with Rincewind for 'stuff I can take or leave alone, and would preferably leave alone.' (Earlier I had a feeling the football thing was going to prove too British even for my second-gen appreciation, but I got over it.) Also-- Vetinari and his squeeze. Also Pepe. Also Glenda. Also Nutt. I am a happy camper.