of course she'd rather be the cowboy
What I just finished reading:
hopeless savages: break, which was just as cute as i was expecting. i even got used to the art. one of the things i like about the hopeless savages series is that the books all have happy endings, but they're very sweet, very appropriate happy endings rather than feeling pat and easy and trite.
What I am reading now:
the wind-up girl, by paolo bacigalupi, which is a massive paperback and slightly more book than i was expecting. it's set in bangkok, and i feel like such a white westerner because even tho there's eventually enough context to figure out what the random thai words mean, i still wish there was a glossary in back. of the three pov characters we've met so far i only really like one of them, which could be an issue, but the future it's set in is fascinating (i think there was something like a worldwide power blowout, so computers are powered by treadles and big warehouses are powered by megadonts, which are kind of like elephants but bigger, and there's a lot of genetic modification and gene hacking, and the major corporations all seem to be in the food business - like agribusiness and genetic modding - the people who work for them are "calorie men" and the thais have a lot of contempt) and i'm really curious where it's going.
What I'm going to read next:
give me a couple weeks to make a dent in the wind-up girl and then we'll talk.
still don't know what smells weird in my kitchen. i took out the recycling but that didn't help. i can't even figure out what it smells like! at first i thought expired dairy, but i just bought milk on sunday and my yogurts are still good, and then i thought expired broccoli, but the broccoli in my fridge passed the sniff test. (and i just bought it on sunday too.) so now i don't know. i facepalm at myself.
i keep missing agent carter and having to catch up online, and it's a good thing i like the show because abc.com lags like hell during the ads, so what should take me an hour takes about two and a half. get your shit together, abc. other networks don't do this to me. anyway. jarvis is still THE BEST, him helping peggy is THE BEST, thompson is still reliably thompson, sousa is still adorable, howard is an ott caricature of a wealthy playboy but so cute when he gets his science on, i really like mrs jarvis, and some stuff about the overarching case is pretty cool. the only thing is that the way wilkes comes on to peggy in the premiere is wildly anachronistic, so much so that their budding relationship throws me out of the story. i like him, and i like that he's highly-educated and super smart - howard is impressed! - and a scientist, but while i don't know what race relations were like in the la of 1947, and while i don't think it was, like, deep in the heart of klan country, it was still 1947 and a black man and a white woman making eyes at each other, not to mention the black man fairly blatantly coming on to the white woman, and her not totally pushing him away, would have gotten them at the very least some serious side-eye. but aside from the guy at the doughnut shop thinking peggy was in danger because she came in with wilkes, the show kind of blithely goes along as if there are zero obstacles (aside from her job and him being, you know, incorporeal) to them being together, like there are zero societal issues. and after the way the ptb handled sexism last season, i'm kind of disappointed.
totally unrelated to wilkes, i hope we get to see dottie again. and i'm bummed there's no angie.
oh wait, a thing about last night's episode too. about halfway through the episode i thought whitney was going to turn out to be another black widow like dottie, but no! she's a scientific genius! which is just as cool, possibly cooler. i didn't catch the hedy lamarr parallel because i never remember that hedy invented radio tech during ww2, but now that i know, it's kinda fabulous.
oh and also, peggy's clothes continue to be gorgeous and peggy continues to kick ass and it continues to be a fun show.
check out some pics taken by the opportunity rover. it was only supposed to last ninety days on mars, and it's still going after twelve years. man, i love space science.
lego now has a minifig in a wheelchair, apparently with a service dog. neat!
a comedian has written erotica about donald trump. and a bellboy. it's only ten pages and is #1 on amazon's gay erotica and kindle erotica charts. and it's gay erotica. about the donald. and a bellboy at the trump hotel in hong kong.
today was apparently chocolate cake day so we had cake at work. it was delish, and i'm not just saying that because a. i'm pretty easy when it comes to cake, and b. i got a big ol' frosting rose with my piece. i do love me some frosting.
hopeless savages: break, which was just as cute as i was expecting. i even got used to the art. one of the things i like about the hopeless savages series is that the books all have happy endings, but they're very sweet, very appropriate happy endings rather than feeling pat and easy and trite.
What I am reading now:
the wind-up girl, by paolo bacigalupi, which is a massive paperback and slightly more book than i was expecting. it's set in bangkok, and i feel like such a white westerner because even tho there's eventually enough context to figure out what the random thai words mean, i still wish there was a glossary in back. of the three pov characters we've met so far i only really like one of them, which could be an issue, but the future it's set in is fascinating (i think there was something like a worldwide power blowout, so computers are powered by treadles and big warehouses are powered by megadonts, which are kind of like elephants but bigger, and there's a lot of genetic modification and gene hacking, and the major corporations all seem to be in the food business - like agribusiness and genetic modding - the people who work for them are "calorie men" and the thais have a lot of contempt) and i'm really curious where it's going.
What I'm going to read next:
give me a couple weeks to make a dent in the wind-up girl and then we'll talk.
still don't know what smells weird in my kitchen. i took out the recycling but that didn't help. i can't even figure out what it smells like! at first i thought expired dairy, but i just bought milk on sunday and my yogurts are still good, and then i thought expired broccoli, but the broccoli in my fridge passed the sniff test. (and i just bought it on sunday too.) so now i don't know. i facepalm at myself.
i keep missing agent carter and having to catch up online, and it's a good thing i like the show because abc.com lags like hell during the ads, so what should take me an hour takes about two and a half. get your shit together, abc. other networks don't do this to me. anyway. jarvis is still THE BEST, him helping peggy is THE BEST, thompson is still reliably thompson, sousa is still adorable, howard is an ott caricature of a wealthy playboy but so cute when he gets his science on, i really like mrs jarvis, and some stuff about the overarching case is pretty cool. the only thing is that the way wilkes comes on to peggy in the premiere is wildly anachronistic, so much so that their budding relationship throws me out of the story. i like him, and i like that he's highly-educated and super smart - howard is impressed! - and a scientist, but while i don't know what race relations were like in the la of 1947, and while i don't think it was, like, deep in the heart of klan country, it was still 1947 and a black man and a white woman making eyes at each other, not to mention the black man fairly blatantly coming on to the white woman, and her not totally pushing him away, would have gotten them at the very least some serious side-eye. but aside from the guy at the doughnut shop thinking peggy was in danger because she came in with wilkes, the show kind of blithely goes along as if there are zero obstacles (aside from her job and him being, you know, incorporeal) to them being together, like there are zero societal issues. and after the way the ptb handled sexism last season, i'm kind of disappointed.
totally unrelated to wilkes, i hope we get to see dottie again. and i'm bummed there's no angie.
oh wait, a thing about last night's episode too. about halfway through the episode i thought whitney was going to turn out to be another black widow like dottie, but no! she's a scientific genius! which is just as cool, possibly cooler. i didn't catch the hedy lamarr parallel because i never remember that hedy invented radio tech during ww2, but now that i know, it's kinda fabulous.
oh and also, peggy's clothes continue to be gorgeous and peggy continues to kick ass and it continues to be a fun show.
check out some pics taken by the opportunity rover. it was only supposed to last ninety days on mars, and it's still going after twelve years. man, i love space science.
lego now has a minifig in a wheelchair, apparently with a service dog. neat!
a comedian has written erotica about donald trump. and a bellboy. it's only ten pages and is #1 on amazon's gay erotica and kindle erotica charts. and it's gay erotica. about the donald. and a bellboy at the trump hotel in hong kong.
today was apparently chocolate cake day so we had cake at work. it was delish, and i'm not just saying that because a. i'm pretty easy when it comes to cake, and b. i got a big ol' frosting rose with my piece. i do love me some frosting.