also: tacos yesterday were delicious, as was the company.
oh man, work is almost back to normal. (except for the robot today. that wasn't normal. he was less creepy than the tiger at that insurance show, but more creepy than the guy in the giant energizer bunny costume at that hurricane show.) I LOVE NORMAL. when i got back to the office this afternoon, everyone was being giggly and stupid. it was fantastic. and tomorrow i'm in daytona all day with either one of my favorites or someone who i should be able to ignore while i get some reading done, so hopefully i can finish this stupid book and start a new one.
i mean, ok. going bovine (by libba bray) isn't really HORRIBLE, i guess. it's just stupid. he's a good kid and interesting enough, and the mad cow thing is a little heartbreaking, but then the wacky hijinks are just too much. the midget and the angel and the fire demons and dr. x and whatever the stupid guy in armor is called? TOO MUCH. (we can keep the lawn gnome though. i pretty much love him.) i can only roll my eyes so many times before i put the book down and play with my phone, is the thing.
plus yesterday i finished tigana (by guy gavriel kay), which i love a stupid amount. i might have tentatively started a five things fic today. actually i was just daydreaming about ways baerd might have found out about dianora (maybe they look alike, and alessan saw something of baerd in her eyes at the ring dive. or maybe a portrait surfaces. or maybe she used to sing herself to sleep on the bad nights, and scelto recognizes one of the songs now that tigana is back. or maybe her body washes up on shore. or maybe she tried to write a letter to him once, and it gets discovered now. or or or. the real problem is, i have no idea how baerd would react. i think there was a point where his finding out would have killed one or both of them- baerd has a lot of rage in him for most of his life. but toward the end of things, after he meets elena and allows himself to feel again, i just don't know. would he curse her? would he just be thankful to have closure? would he regret ever finding her? i don't know! i don't think anyone who loves him would tell him her identity though, for much the same reason.
and yesterday i started a fic in which bob bryar is not a werewolf. it's part of the series tentatively titled "jon walker: he ruins lives" or something. (also in the series: the one where ryan decides he wants to be sherlock holmes, the one where pete and patrick somehow get involved in a youtube feud, and. wait, there was one more. was there a pete one before the youtube feud? oh bother.)
in conclusion: i need to start carrying a moleskin again. ugh.
i mean, ok. going bovine (by libba bray) isn't really HORRIBLE, i guess. it's just stupid. he's a good kid and interesting enough, and the mad cow thing is a little heartbreaking, but then the wacky hijinks are just too much. the midget and the angel and the fire demons and dr. x and whatever the stupid guy in armor is called? TOO MUCH. (we can keep the lawn gnome though. i pretty much love him.) i can only roll my eyes so many times before i put the book down and play with my phone, is the thing.
plus yesterday i finished tigana (by guy gavriel kay), which i love a stupid amount. i might have tentatively started a five things fic today. actually i was just daydreaming about ways baerd might have found out about dianora (maybe they look alike, and alessan saw something of baerd in her eyes at the ring dive. or maybe a portrait surfaces. or maybe she used to sing herself to sleep on the bad nights, and scelto recognizes one of the songs now that tigana is back. or maybe her body washes up on shore. or maybe she tried to write a letter to him once, and it gets discovered now. or or or. the real problem is, i have no idea how baerd would react. i think there was a point where his finding out would have killed one or both of them- baerd has a lot of rage in him for most of his life. but toward the end of things, after he meets elena and allows himself to feel again, i just don't know. would he curse her? would he just be thankful to have closure? would he regret ever finding her? i don't know! i don't think anyone who loves him would tell him her identity though, for much the same reason.
and yesterday i started a fic in which bob bryar is not a werewolf. it's part of the series tentatively titled "jon walker: he ruins lives" or something. (also in the series: the one where ryan decides he wants to be sherlock holmes, the one where pete and patrick somehow get involved in a youtube feud, and. wait, there was one more. was there a pete one before the youtube feud? oh bother.)
in conclusion: i need to start carrying a moleskin again. ugh.