Cryptonomicon
Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell
Trinity
Snow Crash
The Sparrow
LOTR
This Alien Shore
Mists of Avalon
(another book that I embarrassingly can't remember) Sabriel - how could I forget thee?
A gift certificate for 5 free books on Sunday

All for $18.

Rock!

EDIT:  Stopped by the Book Bay at the main library on my way to check out some books.
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It's an amazing feeling to read a manuscript that the public has never seen (at least in English), to feel yourself carried away by it, and to know that, if you are able to convince the rest of the editorial committee that it's as wonderful as you know it is, you will be involved in bringing it to the world.

Happy international talk like a pirate day!

(Have you noticed that LJ is talking like a pirate? It's a little distracting.)

Saturday night, Eliz came over and we figured out which house on Alamo square was THE Full House, and then we made/ate risotto, and then we went to see ADRIENNE RICH ( Read more... )

Now that my boss is on maternity leave, there are often going to be times when I'll simply not have anything to do. Hopefully these will be few and far between, but I don't think that's going to be the case, so I'm trying to come up with things to do. I know I could fill my entire day with webcomics, but I'm trying to avoid that for as long as ( Read more... )

Someone, if fact many someones, the number of someones it takes to make a movie, decided that a movie about AUSTRALIAN TAP DANCING STEEL WORKERS was a good idea.

It was halarious, I'll give you that. Fantabulously, awfully, amusingly bad. Amazing.

My friend Jeff has instructed me to come up with an adventure in San Francisco for Sunday morning. This is proving surprisingly difficult. Any ideas?

I was supposed to go dancing on Friday, but my dancing buddy was having a rough day, so we postponed until today ( Read more... )

For the first time in months, I'm on a semi-normal schedule. Today is a Saturday, and it actually feels like a Saturday. Granted, I'm in the TWO LINES office logging submissions at the moment, but I'm doing so voluntarily and only for a few hours, and this morning I slept in and made banana mocha chip pancakes (thanks to a mix Rachel brought me ( Read more... )

Between Eliz and I having jobs, I'm beginning to have more faith in the world.

Development Assistant at the San Francisco Education Fund. I'll be quitting Patagonia and Starbucks and keeping my fantastically cool internship.

I'm really excited. I start in two weeks. More sometime when I'm not on my internship computer supposed to be doing work