Ein Fall fur Barbie und Susan

Well, ugh. I left a message for the eye doctor guy about a slight shadow I've been noticing now in my periphery since the surgery, and he wants me to come back to the hospital tomorrow so he can have a look. More poking and prodding, oh joy. Eye's still pretty sore. Yesterday I found it difficult to read or even to watch tv by the evening, so I ended up lying in the dark listening to an audio novel from Audible.com.

Had lunch downtown with Allison today, which was fun (lots of catching up), and then we went browsing at Chapters. I bought Orson Scott Card's Shadow Puppets. My favourite OSC book is still Ender's Game, which I reread at least once a year.

Today's picture is one of my purchases at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo. Translation: "A Case For Barbie and Susan". Carolyn Keene is the pen name for the author of the Nancy Drew series. I wonder if Barbie's hair described "titian" like Nancy's, assuming she's the girl on the right? I do so hope that Ms. Keene didn't choose to name her blonde character Barbie.

I also now have a wonderful Rainer Maria Rilke collection of poetry (thank you, Rand!) in which each poem is presented in both German AND English, translations by Robert Bly. Not only will I have fun studying the German, but it will be interesting to see how Bly translates it into English.

I'm trying to learn the German verb dative case right now, and I think my brain is going to explode.

I wonder if laser surgery can fix that as well.

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