i go weak, i used to be your girl
More random crossovers for you - Alicia Florrick and Annalise Keating meet at some lawyers conference. Phryne Fisher and Billy Prior meet up during WWI. I still want the Code Name: Verity/Montmaray Journals crossover, possibly with Peggy Carter thrown in for good measure.
Crossovers! They're what's for dinner! Or something.
I didn't do the Wednesday reading meme, because I was still rereading Discworld: Thud! and I Shall Wear Midnight (♥TIFFANY♥ I wonder if she is eligible for yuletide) this time around, but then on my ride home last night I started Snuff, which I haven't read before so that is what I am reading now! I feel like there could be more first-time reading going forward. I certainly have a ton of books on the to be read pile/list. (I was going to say enough, but there are never enough books, are there? Nor enough time to read them all. Sigh.)
I did manage not to purchase anything while I was in B&N last night, killing time before meeting with
innie_darling. I carried around The Gift of Southern Cooking, so I could feel like I was going to buy something, but then I put it back before I left. Because I do want to own it! (And half a dozen other cookbooks I will barely use!) But I didn't want to spend the money right now. Sigh. My life is the hardest.
Anyway, after a nice dinner,
innie_darling and I went up to the 92nd Street Y to see the talk with Aretha Franklin and Clive Davis. I don't remember the seats there having so little leg room, but even though I am not a tall woman (there are some who would go so far as to say I am a short woman; I might even be one of them), my knees were pressed up against the back of the seat in front of me super uncomfortably.
That didn't detract from the glory of Aretha Franklin, though. She looked fantastic. The chatting was entertaining if not very enlightening, and they played us some songs off her new album, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. I have to say that while I didn't love a couple of her covers (I'm sorry, but nothing will ever top the Gladys Knight version of Midnight Train to Georgia; that is a TOP FIVE ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG for me), I thought the ones that contained mashups (Rolling in the Deep + Ain't No Mountain High Enough; I Will Survive + Survivor; I'm Every Woman + Respect) sent chills down my spine. So that was great, despite the knee pain.
Then I went home and fell into bed. Ugh, always so tired lately. A week of gray, rainy weather hasn't helped.
Oh, I don't think I mentioned this here, but I'm a notary public, and my commission expired back in August. I had sent in my renewal form and check on JULY 1, and they say that there is a huge backlog but as long as they cash your check, you are good to go. Except my check was never cashed. So I was like, you know, I am not going to keep notarizing on the off chance something bad happens (note: to me; afaik, documents notarized by a false notary don't rebound on the person who had the document notarized), which has meant more work for the two other notaries who work here. But lo and behold, yesterday while I was checking my account to make sure my asshole landlord didn't deduct extra money as threatened, I discovered that my check to the County Clerk's office was cashed on SEPTEMBER 30.
Now, I don't know about you, but I have NEVER had a government entity be so dilatory on the cashing of a check. On providing documentation or services in return, yes, but never on the check cashing part. So I am back to being a notary again. Whew.
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Crossovers! They're what's for dinner! Or something.
I didn't do the Wednesday reading meme, because I was still rereading Discworld: Thud! and I Shall Wear Midnight (♥TIFFANY♥ I wonder if she is eligible for yuletide) this time around, but then on my ride home last night I started Snuff, which I haven't read before so that is what I am reading now! I feel like there could be more first-time reading going forward. I certainly have a ton of books on the to be read pile/list. (I was going to say enough, but there are never enough books, are there? Nor enough time to read them all. Sigh.)
I did manage not to purchase anything while I was in B&N last night, killing time before meeting with
innie_darling. I carried around The Gift of Southern Cooking, so I could feel like I was going to buy something, but then I put it back before I left. Because I do want to own it! (And half a dozen other cookbooks I will barely use!) But I didn't want to spend the money right now. Sigh. My life is the hardest.
Anyway, after a nice dinner,
innie_darling and I went up to the 92nd Street Y to see the talk with Aretha Franklin and Clive Davis. I don't remember the seats there having so little leg room, but even though I am not a tall woman (there are some who would go so far as to say I am a short woman; I might even be one of them), my knees were pressed up against the back of the seat in front of me super uncomfortably.
That didn't detract from the glory of Aretha Franklin, though. She looked fantastic. The chatting was entertaining if not very enlightening, and they played us some songs off her new album, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. I have to say that while I didn't love a couple of her covers (I'm sorry, but nothing will ever top the Gladys Knight version of Midnight Train to Georgia; that is a TOP FIVE ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG for me), I thought the ones that contained mashups (Rolling in the Deep + Ain't No Mountain High Enough; I Will Survive + Survivor; I'm Every Woman + Respect) sent chills down my spine. So that was great, despite the knee pain.
Then I went home and fell into bed. Ugh, always so tired lately. A week of gray, rainy weather hasn't helped.
Oh, I don't think I mentioned this here, but I'm a notary public, and my commission expired back in August. I had sent in my renewal form and check on JULY 1, and they say that there is a huge backlog but as long as they cash your check, you are good to go. Except my check was never cashed. So I was like, you know, I am not going to keep notarizing on the off chance something bad happens (note: to me; afaik, documents notarized by a false notary don't rebound on the person who had the document notarized), which has meant more work for the two other notaries who work here. But lo and behold, yesterday while I was checking my account to make sure my asshole landlord didn't deduct extra money as threatened, I discovered that my check to the County Clerk's office was cashed on SEPTEMBER 30.
Now, I don't know about you, but I have NEVER had a government entity be so dilatory on the cashing of a check. On providing documentation or services in return, yes, but never on the check cashing part. So I am back to being a notary again. Whew.
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people have commented there.