On call all day, but the customers did not attack. Since I could not go grocery shopping, I was completely useless all day.

Stayed up too late reading: Shards of Earth (Adrian Tchaikovsky): The elements are not new: immense alien forces that destroy planets, FTL travel that has bad effects on human minds, humans modified to deal with hyperspace, untranslatable aliens, ruins of lost civilizations, etc. But they are well done, and hang together, and the humans are stupid in exactly the ways humans are stupid, and the aliens aren’t random, they obviously have something that works for them, and the various plot elements are connected, and probably will turn out to be even more unified in later books. I stayed up until 3:00 reading it, anyway.

Played: Zoomwarts, still with zoom. Bella and Rosamund both have dates to the holiday party, although Bella might get murdered by Slytherins first.

Words: check.