Gah.
So, yesterday night I bought all the ingredients to make an exotic pureed vegetable soup. And, OF COURSE, when I came home I found out that OUR HAND BLENDER HAD JUST BROKEN.
WTF, Life? You wanna frell with me, Life? You really wanna frell with me?
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I have to write seven job applications in the next fourteen days. Joy. I mean, it's nice that there's actually such a lot of interesting job offers at the moment - that's not always the case. But, could they come at a *slightly* more manageable pace, maybe? Two days (with most of these 'days' being just the hours of the evening after I come home from work, i.e. maybe nine p.m. to one a.m.) per application just isn't enough. I'm not that quick yet.
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I forgot to mention this in my whining post recently: finished "The Windup Girl"; still not completely thrilled but I did like it for the way it took our actual current situation (Climate Change, genetic manipulation, Peak Oil...) and fashioned a plausible near-future from that.
Now I'm reading "Litany of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe, which is an omnibus edition of "Nightside of the Long Sun" and "Lake of the Long Sun". I'm surprised to say it's compulsively readable, so far - and a very easy read. I love Wolfe even when he's difficult - perhaps particularly when he's difficult - but with stress levels in my life being what they are currently, it's nice to find this book so easy and fun.
WTF, Life? You wanna frell with me, Life? You really wanna frell with me?
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I have to write seven job applications in the next fourteen days. Joy. I mean, it's nice that there's actually such a lot of interesting job offers at the moment - that's not always the case. But, could they come at a *slightly* more manageable pace, maybe? Two days (with most of these 'days' being just the hours of the evening after I come home from work, i.e. maybe nine p.m. to one a.m.) per application just isn't enough. I'm not that quick yet.
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I forgot to mention this in my whining post recently: finished "The Windup Girl"; still not completely thrilled but I did like it for the way it took our actual current situation (Climate Change, genetic manipulation, Peak Oil...) and fashioned a plausible near-future from that.
Now I'm reading "Litany of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe, which is an omnibus edition of "Nightside of the Long Sun" and "Lake of the Long Sun". I'm surprised to say it's compulsively readable, so far - and a very easy read. I love Wolfe even when he's difficult - perhaps particularly when he's difficult - but with stress levels in my life being what they are currently, it's nice to find this book so easy and fun.