So...ElJay? Yes? Maybe? Sheesh. Remains to be seen if this entry will actually post. Although I suppose if you're reading it, it posted.
1. Review of
Incarceron at The Roth Project. Did not like. Multiple reasons. Have now finished The Devil's Candy which brings me up to 27 books read. Woot! I need to be at least up to 33 by the end of the month. Am now reading three things:
-The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is the Big Ass Novel for April and will be the Bedroom Book (yes, I read different books based on where I am in the world) until I finish it. So far it's quite good. I'm not sure what it's about yet (I'm only like twenty pages in out of 600+). I think vampires are involved somehow. Hopefully they don't sparkle.
-The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter. What's with all the books lately with the word "devil" in the title? This is another true-crime thingie. This is the current Living Room Book. Knocked off fifty pages on first crack. I'm fascinated and all Schechter is doing so far is sketching in outlines of the relevant people.
-The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr. Historical book about the birth of forensic science. This is the current lunch-and-coffee-break Kindle book.
2. There are not enough hours in the day. I've got two after-work walks this week, dinner club on Friday, an early hike (weather permitting) on Saturday, possibly an expedition on Sunday to scout a potential hike, again weather permitting, and I'm supposed to be writing. While reading 2-3 books per week if I'm going to make my project goal. Plus tonight is my biweekly two hours with a needle in my arm. I find myself half-hoping that my hemoglobin is too low to donate again. I did make time last night to watch "RuPaul's Drag Race" because how can I not, and it was so awesomely entertaining. I've found that my increased reading time has resulted in me spending less time looking at pointless stuff on the Tubes, but then somehow I wasted an hour reading "Sherlock" fanfiction. RUN AWAY. Plus cooking and laundry and oh yeah, sleep. I'm not complaining. I realize that my busy-ness is largely taken up by stuff I love doing and do happily. I'm just continually amazed by all of you who have husbands and kids and such and manage to have lives, too.
3. My first attempt at making hummus went okay. It's a bit too lemony and I messed up the recipe a little.
4. My new Kindle is wonderful but it feels so naked and caseless. For my old Kindle I had this awesome leather hardbacked flip case that had hooks that clipped the Kindle right to the case with the notches in the device, but I CANNOT find a similar thing for the Kindle 3. Everything either holds the Kindle in with elastic bands, or slides it into a slot, or something. That's not what I want. I want a jacket you can clip the thing into. I did order it a custom skin, that ought to be coming soon. I used one of my Lake Tahoe pictures as the image so my Kindle will soon be sporting scenic mountains and a lake.
5. I realized today that I get kind of excited to check my bank balance each day after the credit union closes business so I can see my newly-updated account status. This is absurd because I already know how much money I have because I religiously track each expenditure and deposit on a spreadsheet. Why do I get excited about this? Am I hoping that money will magically appear in my account? Here's a hint: it won't.