I'm currently reading a YA novel called Delirium. It's another dystopian romance, and the schtick behind this one is that love is considered a disease, and everyone has to have a brain surgery as of age 18 to "cure" them of it. It's like the film Gattaca in that the society spends a hell of a lot of time and resources gender segregating teenagers ( Read more... )

Oh, who can forget about the Hunger Games! I honestly had no idea what the fuss was about, but then Moogles3Ever started ranting about it and got me interested, not to mention all the publicity. It sounded like a huge thing. You can't ignore "the next Harry Potter or Twilight" (god, why must those two be lumped together?), after all. Despite the ( Read more... )

So Dracula is really awesome. Since actually getting my hands on it and starting after mentioning needing to do so in my last entry, I have felt the compulsive need to talk about how good it is. When I first looked over it and saw that the chapters were comprised entirely of journal entries or letters I will admit to having been a bit surprised and ( Read more... )

-"This culture always treats sex with suspicion. It constructs and judges almost any sexual practice in terms of its worst possible expression. Sex is presumed guilty until proven innocent. Virtually all erotic behaviour is considered bad unless a specific reason to exempt it has been established. The most acceptable excuses are marriage, ( Read more... )

-You disdained the coupon because of the sin of pride, didn't you. Charles Axis wasn't enough for you. In your greedy brain you cherished an unspeakable desire. You wanted to be Blue Beetle. you wanted to be Captain Marvel. You wanted to be Plastic Man. Robin wasn't even good enough for you, you wanted to be Batman ( Read more... )

Somehow I'm actually staying mostly on-track for NaNoWriMo! *dances ( Read more... )

My eyes feel super funny and it hurts a bit when I blink, but after 15 minutes I finally got em both in! This was my third try, after using the sample pair at the doctor's office some time ago and then putting them on again today to make sure they fit (I apparently almost scratched my cornea and a new pair with a better fit will be coming in later ( Read more... )

So you know what sucks? Being sick. If you have something to do or are missing something you want to miss, okay. But it's summer, I have friends I want to see, volunteering I want to do, and the weather has been really nice one out of every three days. Basically I'm staying sane by reading Harry Potter, drinking lots of soup and yummy tea and ( Read more... )

New Year's Eve was my last day in Florida. Was woken up at a time that felt earlier than it was by the usual loudness of the family, then we all headed to the beach, where I played with the cousins. After some convincing, I got Becky to come with me for lunch, and though she whined at first we walked along the ocean, and chatted a lot as we waited ( Read more... )

Nobody seems to have found/brought my pencil case to Lost and Found. Gonna try again tomorrow, as well as the security desk ( Read more... )