books! also olympics, natch
What I just finished reading:
the next big one, which i really, really liked. the very end reminded me a little of the very end of 28 weeks later, except without the rage zombies and with slightly more queer boys. i remembered chunks of it but not enough to know where the story was going until i got there, so it was like reading it for the first time again. in any case, two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
What I am reading now:
monstress vol 1, written by marjorie liu with art by sana takeda, and since i just started it about all i can say is that the art is fantastic. it's kind of art deco steampunk with monsters and lots and lots of ladies.
What I'm going to read next:
i said the avengers last time, so that. altho i can make "graphic novels/trade paperbacks" a theme.
this morning i missed my bus by thismuch and waited half an hour for the next one. they're supposed to come more frequently than that. i was consequently late for work but stayed late to make up for it. yesterday tamalinn called and asked if i wanted to go out for one beer (not "do you want to go out for a drink/drinks", but "do you want to go out for one beer"), so we did that. and monday i came home to discover that the light in my fridge was out, because the fridge was off. >.< which turned out to be due to a dead outlet, which was determined after i involved the landlady's son (on the phone), his sister (in person), and her sister (also in person). we plugged the fridge into different outlets, including the one in the bathroom, with varying degrees of success. eventually the first sister went down into the basement and flipped some switches or something, and everything started to work again. which was good, because my ice cream was turning into soup. which, ew.
i spent more time than i wanted to tonight trying to get syfy.com to show me all of killjoys from last week, but it kept freezing on me so i gave up halfway through the episode. so i only caught a couple running olympics - the women's 200m, which was won by a very excited jamaican, and the women's 100m hurdles, which was won by a bunch of americans. (i don't think countries generally sweep events like that.) all the runners hugged each other after the hurdles! medal winners and not! i love that. i love how supportive and congratulatory the female athletes seem to be in the events that i've seen. there's a lot of hugging. it's really nice.
now i'm watching women's beach volleyball, which isn't really my sport but is still exciting to watch. dunno why the ladies have to wear bikinis, tho.
and that concludes your olympics news for the night. :D oh, a thing i just learned from twitter - chierika ukogu won silver for nigeria in the women's single sculls, an event nigeria has never actually been in before. also it was their first medal this olympics. cool, huh?
remains of actual sixth century castle found at tintagel, king arthur's purported birthplace.
i could never live in a tiny house - they're too tiny - but i love the way people make furniture and stairs and storage so everything fits. here's some stairs.
you can grow an armchair in your yard. it's basically a frame filled in with dirt and covered with grass seed. and it's very, er, green. :D
photos of fictional meals - the photographer makes the food himself (he even learned how to make turkish delight), and when he's finished taking pictures, he chows down.
super cute tea infuser.
for the d&d players in the audience - the coolest 3d d&d map ever. it's got a port and a castle and towns and farms and a labyrinthine dungeon, and it is massive.
the next big one, which i really, really liked. the very end reminded me a little of the very end of 28 weeks later, except without the rage zombies and with slightly more queer boys. i remembered chunks of it but not enough to know where the story was going until i got there, so it was like reading it for the first time again. in any case, two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
What I am reading now:
monstress vol 1, written by marjorie liu with art by sana takeda, and since i just started it about all i can say is that the art is fantastic. it's kind of art deco steampunk with monsters and lots and lots of ladies.
What I'm going to read next:
i said the avengers last time, so that. altho i can make "graphic novels/trade paperbacks" a theme.
this morning i missed my bus by thismuch and waited half an hour for the next one. they're supposed to come more frequently than that. i was consequently late for work but stayed late to make up for it. yesterday tamalinn called and asked if i wanted to go out for one beer (not "do you want to go out for a drink/drinks", but "do you want to go out for one beer"), so we did that. and monday i came home to discover that the light in my fridge was out, because the fridge was off. >.< which turned out to be due to a dead outlet, which was determined after i involved the landlady's son (on the phone), his sister (in person), and her sister (also in person). we plugged the fridge into different outlets, including the one in the bathroom, with varying degrees of success. eventually the first sister went down into the basement and flipped some switches or something, and everything started to work again. which was good, because my ice cream was turning into soup. which, ew.
i spent more time than i wanted to tonight trying to get syfy.com to show me all of killjoys from last week, but it kept freezing on me so i gave up halfway through the episode. so i only caught a couple running olympics - the women's 200m, which was won by a very excited jamaican, and the women's 100m hurdles, which was won by a bunch of americans. (i don't think countries generally sweep events like that.) all the runners hugged each other after the hurdles! medal winners and not! i love that. i love how supportive and congratulatory the female athletes seem to be in the events that i've seen. there's a lot of hugging. it's really nice.
now i'm watching women's beach volleyball, which isn't really my sport but is still exciting to watch. dunno why the ladies have to wear bikinis, tho.
and that concludes your olympics news for the night. :D oh, a thing i just learned from twitter - chierika ukogu won silver for nigeria in the women's single sculls, an event nigeria has never actually been in before. also it was their first medal this olympics. cool, huh?
remains of actual sixth century castle found at tintagel, king arthur's purported birthplace.
i could never live in a tiny house - they're too tiny - but i love the way people make furniture and stairs and storage so everything fits. here's some stairs.
you can grow an armchair in your yard. it's basically a frame filled in with dirt and covered with grass seed. and it's very, er, green. :D
photos of fictional meals - the photographer makes the food himself (he even learned how to make turkish delight), and when he's finished taking pictures, he chows down.
super cute tea infuser.
for the d&d players in the audience - the coolest 3d d&d map ever. it's got a port and a castle and towns and farms and a labyrinthine dungeon, and it is massive.