Travel plans for the transfer are being modified. Ugh! The egg donor hasn't gotten her 'day 1' yet so she can't start the meds for egg stimulation and that means that egg retrieval can't be on the 12th and THAT means I won't be leaving for transfer on the 16th. Looks like I'll just have to sit in limbo with my drugs and my cycle until she has eggs to use. Bummer on that.

I opted for the bike today. I really wanted to get in another run but I just don't want to risk anything hurting for the 8k. I made SURE to get to bed at 10 so I could get up at 5 (which I've been failing misserably at lately) so I could have a decent time to work out and still get into work on time. That meant that I could get in the 45 minutes on the bike like I should be doing.

The bike also lets me read more - probably because it is so much easier but I'm choosing to ignore that. Anyway, I finished all the Golden Compass books and even 'Lyra's Oxford' and now I'm reading the science book behind the series, 'His Dark Materials' I think is the title although I'm not sure. It is written by a couple of scientists that were intrigued by the series. It's a little elementary, to be honest, but it is fun to read even just the very basic science stuff. I think a lot of it was on accident that he got it close to right - and a lot of it was just the talent of the scientists to draw conclusions - but it is still interesting.

The series was not so anti-god as I was thinking. It was anti-organized religion and anti-people controlling brain washing, to be sure. It also was pretty blatent in the accusations he was making against the current day Christianity leaders. Then again, one has to realize that he was saying specifically that the religious authorities in Lyra's world, a MADE UP world, were MUCH more controling and power hungry than they are in our real world. They even called scientists experimental theologists. He invented a world that took the things that bugged him about current day organized religious leaders and amplified them to the point of obviousness. I don't see that as saying that our world is like that now.

On the other hand, his overt and obnoxious way of pushing his viewpoints into the story, and indeed the concept that he wrote and came up with the story to do just that, NOT for the sake of the story but because "The Chronicals of Narnia" bugged him so much, made the series a little cumbersome. I enjoyed the story for itself but I don't like to be told what to think about anything. His efforts to throw down brain washing were not free of brain washing itself so he doesn't get a 5 star in my book just for that. In contrast, Narnia was just plain a good story and the religious aspects that were there were only there as inherent constructs in CS Lewis's mind that he never thought to question. It wasn't "I need to make a statement and I'll use this book to do so." it was instead "I have a wonderful story to tell." And ya, some religious crap got thrown in but oh well.

All that aside, Lyra and her world are fascinating imagery and very alluring. I love being emmersed in it just like being in the Tolkien and JK Rowling and CS Lewis and even Charles Dickens worlds.

That's it for my book review. After biking I did some stretching and knee strengthening stuff and that was that. I even had time to run my straightening brush/iron through my hair a bit before work. Oh, and to fill my car up with blood, erm, I mean gas.