today i don't feel like doing anything
Went to a really nice steakhouse with a friend yesterday for her birthday. The food was amazing, there was way too much of it, and I continue to like my steaks barely dead. I like them still twitching! On the plus side, this was quite definitely the case here, as the center was bright red and leaking juices. Yum.
Also, I am working through a pile of summer reading. I would have finished Wintersmith, only the next book in the Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series came out (my trashy fantasy novel series right now) and I had to go devour the book. And since I speed read, I missed some stuff and it came off as jumbled, so I had to go right back and read it again, more slowly this time. Speed-reading comes in handy a lot, but it does trip me up when I want to actually take the story in. I remember reading 'Science of Marvel' and realizing a chapter in that I had no idea what I'd just read.
Summer Reading:
Loups-Garous, by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Heir to Sevenwaters, by Juliet Marillier
Cold Magic, by Kate Elliot
Storm Glass, by Maria A Snyder
The Concubine's Daughter, by pai Kit Fai
Something to Declare, by Julia Alvarez
The Swan Maiden, by Jules Watson
I, Elizabeth, by Rosalind Miles
The Stepsister Scheme, by Jim Hines
Hungry Woman in Paris, by Josefina Lopez
I really, really want to write something right now, but I don't know what. (aflightoffancy, I am still writing That Fic, I mean something nice and light on the side.)
Right now I am looking through the prompts on queer_fest , which I sadly discovered after the prompt claiming period. I'm very happy to see plenty of asexuality prompts in there, especially after all the asexual hating that has been going on in a feminism community I frequent. I left the comm over it and am now just occasionally lurking, but they still post hurtful things about asexuality, and any time it's brought up there are people being dicks about what asexuals can and can't call themselves. Ugh. I'll probably compose a post about this later.
Also, I am working through a pile of summer reading. I would have finished Wintersmith, only the next book in the Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series came out (my trashy fantasy novel series right now) and I had to go devour the book. And since I speed read, I missed some stuff and it came off as jumbled, so I had to go right back and read it again, more slowly this time. Speed-reading comes in handy a lot, but it does trip me up when I want to actually take the story in. I remember reading 'Science of Marvel' and realizing a chapter in that I had no idea what I'd just read.
Summer Reading:
Loups-Garous, by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Heir to Sevenwaters, by Juliet Marillier
Cold Magic, by Kate Elliot
Storm Glass, by Maria A Snyder
The Concubine's Daughter, by pai Kit Fai
Something to Declare, by Julia Alvarez
The Swan Maiden, by Jules Watson
I, Elizabeth, by Rosalind Miles
The Stepsister Scheme, by Jim Hines
Hungry Woman in Paris, by Josefina Lopez
I really, really want to write something right now, but I don't know what. (aflightoffancy, I am still writing That Fic, I mean something nice and light on the side.)
Right now I am looking through the prompts on queer_fest , which I sadly discovered after the prompt claiming period. I'm very happy to see plenty of asexuality prompts in there, especially after all the asexual hating that has been going on in a feminism community I frequent. I left the comm over it and am now just occasionally lurking, but they still post hurtful things about asexuality, and any time it's brought up there are people being dicks about what asexuals can and can't call themselves. Ugh. I'll probably compose a post about this later.