Scheming
My brother is coming to NYC for the weekend of the 4th. That means he can help move, though he has a herniated disc so I don't know how much he will be able to, but at least he can carry pillows and stuff. I'm even more excited about Monday, though, than about the extra set of hands for the moving on Saturday and Sunday. We are going to go to a Yankees game. Jonathan hates the Yankees and will undoubtedly wear his Red Sox paraphernalia even though they're playing the Orioles. Alison's not a Yankees fan, either (Mets, ew) so I will be alone in my support for the home team, unless Alison decides not to go. I haven't run this by her yet. Anyway, it seems like we'll either get 2 or 4 tickets, so if anyone might want to tag along for some cheap baseball action on the 4th of July, let me know now and that might change what seats we get. (No one ever comments on my journal so I don't expect anyone to respond to this offer.)
I've been listening to a lot of country music of late. And not the usual "cowboy country" that I always like. Instead it's the Q104 country I used to listen to my junior and senior years of high school. Hearing these songs again is such a flashback to driving around KC and singing along to the radio with the windows down. I don't know any country since leaving KC since there' s no country stations in or around New York, but I don't really need more than what I already know. Especially with LimeWire and iTunes random. It's like I have my own time capsule radio from 1999.
When it thunderstorms in New York (or at least downtown) the sky turns green. That doesn't happen anywhere else I've ever seen. Except bad sci-fi movies.
I was not really into my book (yet another Jordan thousand-pager) for a few weeks there cause I was so busy apartment-hunting and Scarsdale-ing and obsessively packing things I don't need for the next few weeks. Also I was frustrated that my favorite character is not in the book any more. He's just gone. Sure, the plot shifts from character to character, all in completely different parts of the world, and I like that about the structure for the most part, but when one of those stories and my favorite character are never shifted to for a whole book (he's not even in the glossary! A Ta'averen not in the glossary! So much for being a main thread in the wheel of time) it gets really frustrating. This is what Amelea warned me about when I first started the series. Except she used a different example, and now I know he's going to do it again with a different character! Grr. Robert Jordan, you! (Luckily I don't like Mat as much as Perrin, so I will miss him less, I think.) Anyway, I have, in the last few days gotten completely re-sucked into the story (or what's left of it) so I don't notice as much. I had planned on not going straight to the next one (Lord of Chaos, book six) after this one finishes, so I can read the new HP book which will be out shortly thereafter, but now I might have to. Cause Perrin's in the next one, in fact it centers on him, and that will almost make up for him being completely missing from this one. But I won't be able to read another thousand pages on top of the 400 I have left in this book before the middle of the month when HBP comes out. Oh what to do, what to do? The trials of a fantasy fiction addict....
I've been listening to a lot of country music of late. And not the usual "cowboy country" that I always like. Instead it's the Q104 country I used to listen to my junior and senior years of high school. Hearing these songs again is such a flashback to driving around KC and singing along to the radio with the windows down. I don't know any country since leaving KC since there' s no country stations in or around New York, but I don't really need more than what I already know. Especially with LimeWire and iTunes random. It's like I have my own time capsule radio from 1999.
When it thunderstorms in New York (or at least downtown) the sky turns green. That doesn't happen anywhere else I've ever seen. Except bad sci-fi movies.
I was not really into my book (yet another Jordan thousand-pager) for a few weeks there cause I was so busy apartment-hunting and Scarsdale-ing and obsessively packing things I don't need for the next few weeks. Also I was frustrated that my favorite character is not in the book any more. He's just gone. Sure, the plot shifts from character to character, all in completely different parts of the world, and I like that about the structure for the most part, but when one of those stories and my favorite character are never shifted to for a whole book (he's not even in the glossary! A Ta'averen not in the glossary! So much for being a main thread in the wheel of time) it gets really frustrating. This is what Amelea warned me about when I first started the series. Except she used a different example, and now I know he's going to do it again with a different character! Grr. Robert Jordan, you! (Luckily I don't like Mat as much as Perrin, so I will miss him less, I think.) Anyway, I have, in the last few days gotten completely re-sucked into the story (or what's left of it) so I don't notice as much. I had planned on not going straight to the next one (Lord of Chaos, book six) after this one finishes, so I can read the new HP book which will be out shortly thereafter, but now I might have to. Cause Perrin's in the next one, in fact it centers on him, and that will almost make up for him being completely missing from this one. But I won't be able to read another thousand pages on top of the 400 I have left in this book before the middle of the month when HBP comes out. Oh what to do, what to do? The trials of a fantasy fiction addict....