"A First Course in String Theory" by Barton Zwiebach has arrived courtesy of the Amazon courier. This is my OU 'closed season' reading - although flipping through the contents it's pretty daunting: a full year's course for senior undergraduates at MIT.
After sniffing "I thought you were off String Theory" Clare has written a dedication in the cover. It says "Happy Christmas" which I read as faint irony.