Tripping
So we're going to Syracuse tomorrow, and my head feels horrible. It feels like I'm getting some type or ear/sinus infection. Which is bad. Really bad. I already have enough trouble as it is feeling like my head's going to explode when I'm on the plane. Now my ears already are primed to feel bad. I'll have to hop up on benadryl and chew gum.
I'm kind of excited about going, anyway. A little sad that I won't make it to New York city, it's just so expensive to take the bus in! Or the train. Or another flight! And Wm doesn't want to have a car in the city, not that I blame him. I'm sure there will be neat things to see, though. Hopefully it does not too closely resemble the Midwest. I am also going to try to attend half a conference on Information Resources while I am there.
Otherwise, we got a grill over the weekend. It's a pretty nice looking gas grill. I have yet to put it together. I also got a new griddle yesterday while we were at Macy's looking for a gift for my sister in law.
New griddles are nifty.
I was reading Good Omens, you know, the Terry Pratchett + Neil Gaiman awesome combo book of doom. And I totally lost it. I was halfway through with it too, and it just seems to have walked away.
Another thing I've started reading recently is the webcomic Dreamless. It's okay, so far. The art is good, though I wish the story wouldn't have gone for the "love" angle - there are other meaningful types of relationships. And the author is kind of a dick on the message space. (He's even pulling "well all the negative stuff happened off screen, I didn't think I'd have to explain they didn't have it perfect" condescending crap) It kind of tarnishes the whole thing.
But then I've always felt stories that are focused on romantic relationships a bit tedious. Even romantic comedies give me hives. When I was a little girl it irked me to no end that a female character, if she was there at all, would likely get paired up by the end of a book/series. I actually found the "Protector of the Small" series refreshing in that while the main female character had relationships all of them kind of petered out, I preferred it to Alanna who jumps into bed with someone at the first opportunity and is married off by the series end. I think I've said it before, so forgive me, but like Robin McKinley told herself she'd write stories of GIRLS having adventures, I told myself I'd write stories of girls having adventures and NOT falling in love!
It's so dully predictable as a storyline. I have less rage against it now, but I still feel somewhat disappointed when an interesting premise or mechanic is overshadowed by romance.
I'm kind of excited about going, anyway. A little sad that I won't make it to New York city, it's just so expensive to take the bus in! Or the train. Or another flight! And Wm doesn't want to have a car in the city, not that I blame him. I'm sure there will be neat things to see, though. Hopefully it does not too closely resemble the Midwest. I am also going to try to attend half a conference on Information Resources while I am there.
Otherwise, we got a grill over the weekend. It's a pretty nice looking gas grill. I have yet to put it together. I also got a new griddle yesterday while we were at Macy's looking for a gift for my sister in law.
New griddles are nifty.
I was reading Good Omens, you know, the Terry Pratchett + Neil Gaiman awesome combo book of doom. And I totally lost it. I was halfway through with it too, and it just seems to have walked away.
Another thing I've started reading recently is the webcomic Dreamless. It's okay, so far. The art is good, though I wish the story wouldn't have gone for the "love" angle - there are other meaningful types of relationships. And the author is kind of a dick on the message space. (He's even pulling "well all the negative stuff happened off screen, I didn't think I'd have to explain they didn't have it perfect" condescending crap) It kind of tarnishes the whole thing.
But then I've always felt stories that are focused on romantic relationships a bit tedious. Even romantic comedies give me hives. When I was a little girl it irked me to no end that a female character, if she was there at all, would likely get paired up by the end of a book/series. I actually found the "Protector of the Small" series refreshing in that while the main female character had relationships all of them kind of petered out, I preferred it to Alanna who jumps into bed with someone at the first opportunity and is married off by the series end. I think I've said it before, so forgive me, but like Robin McKinley told herself she'd write stories of GIRLS having adventures, I told myself I'd write stories of girls having adventures and NOT falling in love!
It's so dully predictable as a storyline. I have less rage against it now, but I still feel somewhat disappointed when an interesting premise or mechanic is overshadowed by romance.