Bad idea of the day: “I’ll be back before the rain starts again. No need to bring my umbrella.”

I’m sure you can see where this is going.

I actually would have made it if I hadn’t decided to finish re-reading The Briar King. Three pages from the end - WHOOSH! Instant cloudburst ( Read more... )

My brother and his fiancée drove down from San Francisco to visit last weekend, and we ended up spending a lot of time hanging out with them at my parents' house. And playing Munchkin. Which was fun, except for the interminable turns when someone needed to discard a bunch of cards and, because most of us were new at the game, agonized over which ( Read more... )

Finally started getting my sleep schedule adjusted, only to send it completely out of whack this weekend.

Friday I just took a break from everything and caught up on comics. I read the first issue of Madame Xanadu (looks promising), re-read the first volume of Welcome to Tranquility and finally read the second ( Read more... )

After spending Friday night and most of the daylight hours Saturday and Sunday moving furniture and boxes around, putting stuff on shelves or in closets, hooking up electronics, sorting stuff to keep/sell/donate/take to storage, and generally trying to make the new place liveable, I decided to just relax on Monday ( Read more... )

Spent Saturday afternoon shopping for alenxa's parents' birthdays. Not terribly exciting, though we did go to Javier's for lunch. We've never been there for dinner, because they're always terribly crowded and they won't take reservations for only two people. But we've always walked straight in for lunch. Sunday was mostly spent with the previously- ( Read more... )

Finished reading Wicked. Very good. Also very different from the musical. And I don't mean in a Les Mis or Phantom condensed-the-heck-out-of-it way. I mean in a took a few high points from the book, then connected the dots with its own story way.

At least it wasn't on the level of, say, Starship Troopers.

After ***Dave, it's the top 40 responses to a poll of British librarians on "Which book should every adult read before they die?"
( The List )

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has released the 2005 results!

I was fixing tags on recent LJ entries (every other web app I've used tags with makes them space-separated, not comma-separated) and noticed that I'd mentioned where I was in HBP several times. It got me thinking ( Read more... )

After katyakoshka and maldis

( You’re what you own )