Add speed-reading to indiscriminantly reckless diet/sleep habits and my once-perfect vision on the list of my abilities that have apparently begun to atrophy with age. I'm about halfway through TTW. I watched the movie, which merely confirmed many things I'd already deduced from the book (both what I've read and the stuff I've cheated and flipped ( Read more... )

-- Seeing New Moon has actually made me more curious to at least attempt the Twilight books. Yeah, why am I considering spending time on a series where it doesn't appear I'll much like the main romance or the two main characters? One, I'm curious to see if the books do any better on making the main characters/romance sympathetic. Two... I was ( Read more... )

-- Wow, a lot of the female SW fans (and several of the Twilight ones too) on my f-list feel strongly about that "Twilight = Girl!SW?" thing. I got more response from my off-hand comment to that issue than the CW episode discussion ( Read more... )

So, I'd asked Dad awhile back whether he knew if he'd be able to snag tickets to the big annual library booksale opening night pre-sale, like he usually does. He said he didn't know, I shrugged it off and resigned myself to going during the regular sale like everyone else ( Read more... )

It's going around, and I'm finding reasons not to go to bed, so why not?

( Fandom whore... me? )

Damn, I love book fairs. :D

Going back for round 2 tomorrow, though it looks like it'll be raining. No matter! :)

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Well, the drive to work wasn't nearly as bad as the drive home Friday - since I didn't have to go in until 10:00 and most of the local schools were closed traffic was light, and the freeway was pretty clear. The worst part was chipping/melting the damn glacier off my car, which took about an hour.

Bad thing... we're getting another winter blast ( Read more... )

I went to Wal-Mart tonight and I came home with season 1 of The X-Files. The heck with waiting for my birthday. :)

Something tells me I'm going to need an XF icon very soon.

(I also came home with this GoF poster, which I saw and just thought was cool ( Read more... )