is it the weekend yet?
I'm currently following a fanfic that has become such a guilty pleasure. I am totally okay with utter suspension of disbelief at the beginning of a story. It's when the author requires the reader to continually accept more preposterous things in their story that it gets a bit tough for me to not bitch at how massively silly things are getting. The problem now is that the narrative is really engaging...It just requires really bad judgement from a lot of characters who totally should know better to keep going the way the author obviously wants it to go. *sighs* I will probably read faithfully to the (bitter?) end...
I was reading a blog post on how to travel lightly and just died laughing at one of them: "Bring one book, and when you’re done, find a book-exchange and trade it for a new one." Suuure, that'll work if you don't read the entire book during the wait at the airport to get on the flight (or halfway through the flight) and die of boredom in the meantime. I know that these tips are general (like how in every "how to save money" list there's always the "don't buy books and just borrow from the library" tip--obviously not book-lovers, these people), but still.
Writing up Sasra 2 took a lot more time than I ever thought I'd spend on it...I was planning on doing a bare-bones summary, but I just got caught up in the stories. It didn't help that I spent hours reading the history and trying to correlate English versions of terms and names I come across online with the Japanese versions in the book. I'm probably going to cut back drastically for volume 3.
I ran into and spoke with a neighbor when I got home from a long day at work, and ended up with a deep appreciation of just how not sucky my life is compared to what other people have to deal with.
Things I looked at today:
Free electronics recycling at post offices in selected locations--I'd like to have this nationwide, it'd be so easy to drop my old gadgets in the mail instead of trying to figure out who will take them...
Julian Beever's optical illusion pavement drawings
Various versions of Strawberries Romanoff
Getting started with bento making: Variety and saving money
I was reading a blog post on how to travel lightly and just died laughing at one of them: "Bring one book, and when you’re done, find a book-exchange and trade it for a new one." Suuure, that'll work if you don't read the entire book during the wait at the airport to get on the flight (or halfway through the flight) and die of boredom in the meantime. I know that these tips are general (like how in every "how to save money" list there's always the "don't buy books and just borrow from the library" tip--obviously not book-lovers, these people), but still.
Writing up Sasra 2 took a lot more time than I ever thought I'd spend on it...I was planning on doing a bare-bones summary, but I just got caught up in the stories. It didn't help that I spent hours reading the history and trying to correlate English versions of terms and names I come across online with the Japanese versions in the book. I'm probably going to cut back drastically for volume 3.
I ran into and spoke with a neighbor when I got home from a long day at work, and ended up with a deep appreciation of just how not sucky my life is compared to what other people have to deal with.
Things I looked at today:
Free electronics recycling at post offices in selected locations--I'd like to have this nationwide, it'd be so easy to drop my old gadgets in the mail instead of trying to figure out who will take them...
Julian Beever's optical illusion pavement drawings
Various versions of Strawberries Romanoff
Getting started with bento making: Variety and saving money