return to the virtual realm
SO. after much time moping because my laptop, after nearly six years of valiant service, finally gave up the ghost, i am now equipped with a franken-computer salvaged and restored by Brent and Dave, supplied with some internet access, and twinked out with a wireless mouse/keyboard combo.
in other words, I'm back online, folks.
so, my apologies for being a bit incommunicada for the last like, months. it's just that spending my time going up to the public library for internet access was awkward at best. don't get me wrong--I like the library and all the free shit one can obtain from it--but checking up on my friends' private lives in the midst of, well, the homeless and the mentally ill just seemed like a bad idea. hence, the long LJ hiatus.
anyway, so how are you all?
fortunately, you haven't missed too much from me in the meantime. still with the job, but now getting some benefits at least. have a new guy--it goes well, it goes less well, it goes well again... still love my tiny little place. am working on this D&D campaign, for which i have discovered the coolest monster EVER. still have my evil little bird, though, at 17, he's beginning to show signs of aging. still trying not to fight with my dad.
really, the only good part about not having internet was the amount of "free" time i suddenly had to read, which i've been doing almost nonstop. got through most of the Neal Stephenson books, which were fun, and the novel of Let the Right One In, which i absolutely loved and could barely put down even when i wanted to. it has this gift of being genuinely creepy--way more like Dracula than like an Anne Rice novel. (the reccs on the back compared it to Anne Rice, which strikes me as silly.) i'm also slogging through Atlas Shrugged, which i find that i kinda like in spite of myself--or rather, would like it, if Rand had had an editor as ruthless as her characters. someone who would have cut her pages of philosophizing down to say, a few sentences. there's a good story hidden somewhere in this story, i swear!
OH. and if ever you happen to be bored and want to see a good movie, go rent Un Prophet. It's this very indie-looking French gangster movie about the new guy in prison, and how he rises to the top. When we got it, all the reviewers were comparing it to The Godfather... a really, really, really French version perhaps, but the comparison is not out of line.(Looking in your direction, kat9y.) totally worth two and half hours of your time.
right. anyway, i love you all. ♥
in other words, I'm back online, folks.
so, my apologies for being a bit incommunicada for the last like, months. it's just that spending my time going up to the public library for internet access was awkward at best. don't get me wrong--I like the library and all the free shit one can obtain from it--but checking up on my friends' private lives in the midst of, well, the homeless and the mentally ill just seemed like a bad idea. hence, the long LJ hiatus.
anyway, so how are you all?
fortunately, you haven't missed too much from me in the meantime. still with the job, but now getting some benefits at least. have a new guy--it goes well, it goes less well, it goes well again... still love my tiny little place. am working on this D&D campaign, for which i have discovered the coolest monster EVER. still have my evil little bird, though, at 17, he's beginning to show signs of aging. still trying not to fight with my dad.
really, the only good part about not having internet was the amount of "free" time i suddenly had to read, which i've been doing almost nonstop. got through most of the Neal Stephenson books, which were fun, and the novel of Let the Right One In, which i absolutely loved and could barely put down even when i wanted to. it has this gift of being genuinely creepy--way more like Dracula than like an Anne Rice novel. (the reccs on the back compared it to Anne Rice, which strikes me as silly.) i'm also slogging through Atlas Shrugged, which i find that i kinda like in spite of myself--or rather, would like it, if Rand had had an editor as ruthless as her characters. someone who would have cut her pages of philosophizing down to say, a few sentences. there's a good story hidden somewhere in this story, i swear!
OH. and if ever you happen to be bored and want to see a good movie, go rent Un Prophet. It's this very indie-looking French gangster movie about the new guy in prison, and how he rises to the top. When we got it, all the reviewers were comparing it to The Godfather... a really, really, really French version perhaps, but the comparison is not out of line.(Looking in your direction, kat9y.) totally worth two and half hours of your time.
right. anyway, i love you all. ♥