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Aw, I missed Blonde Redhead. I need to up their count on my last.fm profile.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about the book I finished long enough ago that I'm almost finished with the book I started reading after it. It was "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson, one of those new fiction books that I'd always kind of seen floating around, read by other people, etc. (Apparently it was made into a movie in 1999? Starring Ethan Hawke? Random.) There's not a whole lot I have to say about it, though. It's one of those "character developing" stories, where not a lot of action happens, and the focus is more on people's thoughts as they wander around and think all the time. Not that I need a book with like, tons of guns and people being beaten up...that's not the kind of action I mean. But really, in this, not a lot happens. More of the book takes place in flashback anyway. Ishmael Chambers is kind of a wuss. I mean, he's still obsessing about a girl he "loved" back in high school, even though they're all like, in their 40s now? Come on. Then again, maybe it was because he went to war? I don't know. I just know I got kind of annoyed with him after a while. This is really sounding like I hated the book...I didn't. I kind of nothing it, as Jordan from Scrubs would say.
In other news, everything with school friends is sort of on pause. Last Tuesday it looked like things might have gotten better...the three of us decided that if Dave and Jonah came to visit that weekend together, it would be awkward, but not horrible. However, a package Sarah received in the mail from Dave which contained a puzzle book similar to one they had worked on together over break really upset Jen, as it was kind of a clear indication of Dave's liking-ness of Sarah, and also because it was the kind of nice thing that Dave never really did for Jen herself. So. Jen decided, wisely I think, that if Dave came she'd be really upset/angry at him and she just would have stayed to herself. Jonah came, which was okay, if a little awkward for me personally, but things are really weird with him right now. Drinking to get wasted almost every night, saying things like "life isn't worth it" online to Jen (online is where he is really strange), having some kind of quarter-life crisis...I don't know man, I don't know if I should be really worried or if he's just being a drama queen, which he has a tendency to be. Reason number one I would never date him ever. In conclusion, I think Jen's at least not as depressed as she was last week, but she and Dave definitely aren't friends, at least not in her mind, and probably won't be for a good while.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about the book I finished long enough ago that I'm almost finished with the book I started reading after it. It was "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson, one of those new fiction books that I'd always kind of seen floating around, read by other people, etc. (Apparently it was made into a movie in 1999? Starring Ethan Hawke? Random.) There's not a whole lot I have to say about it, though. It's one of those "character developing" stories, where not a lot of action happens, and the focus is more on people's thoughts as they wander around and think all the time. Not that I need a book with like, tons of guns and people being beaten up...that's not the kind of action I mean. But really, in this, not a lot happens. More of the book takes place in flashback anyway. Ishmael Chambers is kind of a wuss. I mean, he's still obsessing about a girl he "loved" back in high school, even though they're all like, in their 40s now? Come on. Then again, maybe it was because he went to war? I don't know. I just know I got kind of annoyed with him after a while. This is really sounding like I hated the book...I didn't. I kind of nothing it, as Jordan from Scrubs would say.
In other news, everything with school friends is sort of on pause. Last Tuesday it looked like things might have gotten better...the three of us decided that if Dave and Jonah came to visit that weekend together, it would be awkward, but not horrible. However, a package Sarah received in the mail from Dave which contained a puzzle book similar to one they had worked on together over break really upset Jen, as it was kind of a clear indication of Dave's liking-ness of Sarah, and also because it was the kind of nice thing that Dave never really did for Jen herself. So. Jen decided, wisely I think, that if Dave came she'd be really upset/angry at him and she just would have stayed to herself. Jonah came, which was okay, if a little awkward for me personally, but things are really weird with him right now. Drinking to get wasted almost every night, saying things like "life isn't worth it" online to Jen (online is where he is really strange), having some kind of quarter-life crisis...I don't know man, I don't know if I should be really worried or if he's just being a drama queen, which he has a tendency to be. Reason number one I would never date him ever. In conclusion, I think Jen's at least not as depressed as she was last week, but she and Dave definitely aren't friends, at least not in her mind, and probably won't be for a good while.