Driving, TV, reading
Okay so I got offered a job back in New Hampshire and I have to take it even though I kind of don't want to, not because I don't want the job, but because I don't want to be back in New Hampshire. I'm frustrated because I can't find a place to live. I start in a week and I still don't even have a plane ticket back there, let alone a place to sleep once I get there. The only thing keeping me from losing my mind is that I can come back to Oregon for Thanksgiving. So basically, job: yay! location: boo!
Also, so I've driven so freaking much since being back in Oregon for a month. First to Salt Lake City, then to Arches National Park, then back to Oregon. The second trip was Oregon, to southern California, then up to the San Francisco Bay Area, then back to Oregon. Then yesterday I drove to Portland and back. I added up the miles and it came out to 4000. I drove 4000 miles over the course of a month. I actually had a lot of fun on all my trips.
Here's a picture I took of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah:
Here's a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge:
Anyway. Also, the other good thing about fall: TV shows come back, yay! So this week sees the return of Supernatural. I cannot believe that there is a season 9 of that show. I'm going to watch and I hope to all that's holy that it's not as bad of a trainwreck as the first half of season 8. Don't get me wrong, for some reason it's like the show was rebooted for the second half and suddenly became watchable again and I ended up really liking it (as long as I just pretend the first half didn't happen), but still. Please god don't let there be a 10th season though. Don't run it so far into the ground that it's in the center of the earth.
The Mentalist came back last week and I really liked the episode. The end freaked me the hell out, but yeah, it was a good first episode back.
I also watched the pilot and half the second episode of Sleepy Hollow. I quite like it and I will definitely be watching more of it. I just...didn't make it all the way through the second episode because I started it in the middle of the night and got scared, lol. And I haven't gone back to finish because, well, I got distracted by rewatching Sherlock. Well, that, and looking for apartments ugh.
Okay also, books:
I read this book called Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein and it's basically become my favorite book ever (almost...). It's definitely one of the best YA books I've ever read and definitely on my top ten list of best books in general. It was intriguing and exciting and well-written. And the main characters were two totally kick ass girls. And, wonder of wonders, they were not completely distracted from life with boys or romance, but instead were too busy being totally kickass. It's set in World War II. The girls work for the British war effort, one as a pilot, the other as a wireless operator/special forces officer. IT'S SO GOOD. READ IT, I INSIST.
The other books I read in September were, Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro, which was very good, not the kind of book I'd normally pick out to read but really touching and a good read; The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman, which was...different; and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, which was definitely very good, and very Terry Pratchett-like and quite amusing.
Also, so I've driven so freaking much since being back in Oregon for a month. First to Salt Lake City, then to Arches National Park, then back to Oregon. The second trip was Oregon, to southern California, then up to the San Francisco Bay Area, then back to Oregon. Then yesterday I drove to Portland and back. I added up the miles and it came out to 4000. I drove 4000 miles over the course of a month. I actually had a lot of fun on all my trips.
Here's a picture I took of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah:
Here's a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge:
Anyway. Also, the other good thing about fall: TV shows come back, yay! So this week sees the return of Supernatural. I cannot believe that there is a season 9 of that show. I'm going to watch and I hope to all that's holy that it's not as bad of a trainwreck as the first half of season 8. Don't get me wrong, for some reason it's like the show was rebooted for the second half and suddenly became watchable again and I ended up really liking it (as long as I just pretend the first half didn't happen), but still. Please god don't let there be a 10th season though. Don't run it so far into the ground that it's in the center of the earth.
The Mentalist came back last week and I really liked the episode. The end freaked me the hell out, but yeah, it was a good first episode back.
I also watched the pilot and half the second episode of Sleepy Hollow. I quite like it and I will definitely be watching more of it. I just...didn't make it all the way through the second episode because I started it in the middle of the night and got scared, lol. And I haven't gone back to finish because, well, I got distracted by rewatching Sherlock. Well, that, and looking for apartments ugh.
Okay also, books:
I read this book called Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein and it's basically become my favorite book ever (almost...). It's definitely one of the best YA books I've ever read and definitely on my top ten list of best books in general. It was intriguing and exciting and well-written. And the main characters were two totally kick ass girls. And, wonder of wonders, they were not completely distracted from life with boys or romance, but instead were too busy being totally kickass. It's set in World War II. The girls work for the British war effort, one as a pilot, the other as a wireless operator/special forces officer. IT'S SO GOOD. READ IT, I INSIST.
The other books I read in September were, Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro, which was very good, not the kind of book I'd normally pick out to read but really touching and a good read; The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman, which was...different; and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, which was definitely very good, and very Terry Pratchett-like and quite amusing.