books, General, Life
So before I start two reccomendations for books.
The Fair Godmother by Mercedes Lackey completely charmed me. A wonderful tale, light and fun, just enough actual characters to be entertaining, but not too serious with itself. An excellent read.
Seduced by Moonlight by Laura K. Hamilton nicely satisfied my taste for dark fantasy. While the story tends to be slightly melodramatic, the melodrama suits the tale. Fairy princesses of blood and flesh should be slightly melodramatic. A good read, particularly if sex and blood are just acts and liquid not morally heavy concepts.
So onto life....
I've been house shopping. For the record, nothing makes you feel as old as house shopping. You're always tired. There's always more questions. "Did I like the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the tiles, the plan, the gardens, the roof etc" Also, the houseshopping has made it abundantly clear that bekah and I do not make decisions in the same way. While this is fascinating, it's also somewhat irritating. I don't try to annoy her, and she doesn't try to annoy me, but we still do. Which is stressful. I think I'll be much happier with the house thing once we're past the first steps of new or used, or closer to actually buying the house. It's not owning a house that's stressing me out, or even the prospect of owning one, it's the worry about owning the wrong one, or perhaps commiting to another house that I'll want to leave in a month. I'm still pissed with myself for the APT fiasco (we shouldn't have signed our current lease if we were going to house shop, and I didn't even realize that when I was campaigning for the longer lease)
Enough about that....
Cat shopping is on hold waiting on the house. I'm still very much attached to maine coons, but have conceded that bekah can have a wedgie...presuming of course she finds one she likes.
School is actually pretty good, but not very convenient. It means I miss the best part of my social time with people non-bekah/non-work (tues night magic where I've got alot of friends of different ages so I get that oh so critical interaction with non-krabs) It also means I miss my usual bekah evening (Thursday) so it's rough. The work is interesting in the same way that going to a magic act when you're a magician is interesting. I've already had Calculus--but watching the prof explain it is really sorta neat--especially since I know where he's going (or in the case of my lab, she).
Work tends toward repetition at the moment. My current project is a large network install. I'm helping another company set up their Infastructure in a maintainable way. Alot of meetings and silly explanations. Things like why it's important to have a process for patching your systems, and that hosting your own mail implies a certain amount of budget needed for upgrades etc.
Family (for those of you who know them) seem to be fine...although kate is having a rough semester it seems she's finnally getting her feet under her.
Finnally, this, I thought, was rather good.
I stepped to the mirror. One last breathe across the glass to clear it. The vapor misted in the morning. The light reflected in my eyes. I leapt. Silvery sliding of images refracted and refined gone quietly through my mind and out and I was there. A solid spiderweb of glass the only remnants of my passage. Turned to dust across my chest and borne away on foreign winds into the sunset.
The Fair Godmother by Mercedes Lackey completely charmed me. A wonderful tale, light and fun, just enough actual characters to be entertaining, but not too serious with itself. An excellent read.
Seduced by Moonlight by Laura K. Hamilton nicely satisfied my taste for dark fantasy. While the story tends to be slightly melodramatic, the melodrama suits the tale. Fairy princesses of blood and flesh should be slightly melodramatic. A good read, particularly if sex and blood are just acts and liquid not morally heavy concepts.
So onto life....
I've been house shopping. For the record, nothing makes you feel as old as house shopping. You're always tired. There's always more questions. "Did I like the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the tiles, the plan, the gardens, the roof etc" Also, the houseshopping has made it abundantly clear that bekah and I do not make decisions in the same way. While this is fascinating, it's also somewhat irritating. I don't try to annoy her, and she doesn't try to annoy me, but we still do. Which is stressful. I think I'll be much happier with the house thing once we're past the first steps of new or used, or closer to actually buying the house. It's not owning a house that's stressing me out, or even the prospect of owning one, it's the worry about owning the wrong one, or perhaps commiting to another house that I'll want to leave in a month. I'm still pissed with myself for the APT fiasco (we shouldn't have signed our current lease if we were going to house shop, and I didn't even realize that when I was campaigning for the longer lease)
Enough about that....
Cat shopping is on hold waiting on the house. I'm still very much attached to maine coons, but have conceded that bekah can have a wedgie...presuming of course she finds one she likes.
School is actually pretty good, but not very convenient. It means I miss the best part of my social time with people non-bekah/non-work (tues night magic where I've got alot of friends of different ages so I get that oh so critical interaction with non-krabs) It also means I miss my usual bekah evening (Thursday) so it's rough. The work is interesting in the same way that going to a magic act when you're a magician is interesting. I've already had Calculus--but watching the prof explain it is really sorta neat--especially since I know where he's going (or in the case of my lab, she).
Work tends toward repetition at the moment. My current project is a large network install. I'm helping another company set up their Infastructure in a maintainable way. Alot of meetings and silly explanations. Things like why it's important to have a process for patching your systems, and that hosting your own mail implies a certain amount of budget needed for upgrades etc.
Family (for those of you who know them) seem to be fine...although kate is having a rough semester it seems she's finnally getting her feet under her.
Finnally, this, I thought, was rather good.
I stepped to the mirror. One last breathe across the glass to clear it. The vapor misted in the morning. The light reflected in my eyes. I leapt. Silvery sliding of images refracted and refined gone quietly through my mind and out and I was there. A solid spiderweb of glass the only remnants of my passage. Turned to dust across my chest and borne away on foreign winds into the sunset.