Dear Stephen King:

The Journals of Eleanor Druse isn't very satisfying for someone who only got to watch one episode of Kingdom Hospital. In fact, the utter lack of an ending is pretty vexing, especially at 2 a.m. However, I am prepared to forgive you for this and every other fault, because you named the drugs in Druse's treatment regimen ( Read more... )

Surely Tuesday the 13th has to be bad luck somewhere. *rubs temples*

I got my car fixed, flushed, and formatted, and for reasons unfathomable they gave me a twenty-dollar discount. WIN. I got home to find my Christmas BPAL order had come in--double win. They left out a bottle, but I got what I need for the office gift swap, and I'll be emailing ( Read more... )

A pretty productive weekend! And emphasis on "pretty", because there were two beautiful, clear, dry fall days in a row.

I slacked off NaNo on Sunday, although my sporadic returns to the computer helped me make the bare-minimum daily word count, and I mean I did not go a word over what I needed. In the interim I played a lot of video games and did ( Read more... )

Been angsty, stress from many sources this month. Know this is because I'm hormonal but this does not quell the angst. This week I have cried (pointlessly) in bed, at work, in the car, and in front of the TV screen. Have been pissed off at friends, family, work, church, self, volunteer job, God, science, the Walt Disney company, and society. No-one ( Read more... )

I'm re-reading All Quiet on the Western Front over my lunch breaks--awesome book, everyone ought to read it ( Read more... )

Let's update, shall we ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Esther gave this answer to take ( Read more... )

You know what I really love? Postapocalyptic and society-rebuilding stuff. I don't even need a plausible excuse, I'm willing to just jump in and go, "Okay, great. The world got destroyed. What now?" I'm only saying this because I just realized how much of the media I've enjoyed in the past few months--LOST, 28 Days Later, the Twilight Zone, Day ( Read more... )

I started reading King Lear, and honestly I don't think I'll finish it. I don't know, maybe it's that half the characters have similar names and titles, maybe that Cordelia's total inability to play the yes-man game just doesn't impress me, maybe I'm equally unimpressed with Lear's big hissyfit--and was that a hint of a hidden agenda to keep ( Read more... )

sit_good_dog tagged me with a meme, so...here.

1. Total number of books I've owned: Hang on a minute.

*counts*

There are 152 in my living room. I'm guestimating roughly that in my bedroom, and another amount like that in storage with my parents, so ... four hundred fifty?

2. The last book I bought: Oh no, I have to be honest. La Bella Durmiente, which ( Read more... )