4193: One Less Day

[jen_aside]

things:

1. I think I got a reblog by virtue of no one else posting a sketch today [for me, yesterday]. Not surprising this late in the game, but am I really only the one dedicated to this daily crap? At least I actually put a little effort into my pic this time.
   
   
2. THEY MOVED MY SCANNER D= which makes sense in the "why should she have to walk all the way across the building" and "we have to clear out that side of the building YESTERDAY" senses, but I now get NO exercise. I don't mind being a bit on the fat[-for-media] side, but my pants are fitting tightly again, and I LOATHE CLOTHES SHOPPING. So.
   
   
3. Finished An Acceptable Time. Summarized so:Girl hangs with ex-time/space-travelling parents/grandparents.
   Boy hangs with girl.
   Girl breaches 3,000-year-into-the-past time gate.
   Boy says he's dying from a heart murmur.
   Girl talks about all this with her folks.
   Boy also talks about all this with her folks.
   Boy drags girl 3,000 years into past.
   Boy colludes with primitive tribe to sacrifice girl for rain dance.
   Girl narrowly escapes by circumstance.
   3,000-years-in-past healers almost-heal boy's heart.
   Boy and girl return to future.
   Girl dumps boy FOREVAR.
   No, really. That's effectively the gist of it, and all the rest is, "Thing happens. They immediately spend the rest of the chapter talking about what happened." I don't know how this is the same author as A Wrinkle in Time, except maybe that was a bit of a tough act to follow.
   
   
4. Did I mention I bought The Hunger Games? It's in my prior photo post if you didn't see. Thing is, for "research" purposes, I still want to read the book AFTER I see the movie... which will be over Netflix post-Thanksgiving/Christmas at the rate I'm consuming free time ¬_¬ I'm reading The Pelican Brief in the bathroom--loving the short chapters, though I realize that's not what makes a book a winner--but I think it's one where the book definitely should preceed the movie.
   
   Still haven't done as many movie-then-book sessions: HP2, A Scanner Darkly, The Princess Bride, and The Neverending Story are the only ones that I remember offhand, and in the case of the first two, the movie made the book seemed SO DRAWN OUT. [I still haven't finished ASD.]

Not sure what I'm reading at work next. Maybe I will get back into walking at lunch break, though it means the usual chowing down before walking [doctor-prescribed: the other way around, actually].

Comic is going embarrassingly slow, which means it may have to go to bi-monthly after all. Ugh. Stupid "earning a living" stuff!

Uh.

I got nothin' =p