Anticipation and the like.
and so I need some entertainment for the various downtime that will be spent at airports waiting for planes and junk at various locations. Thus I obtained a new DS game -- Puzzle Quest 2, which is the most awesome game ever -- basically you roam around a dungeon and you beat trolls and orcs, etc, with the power of your bejeweled action -- all battles are games of like strategic bejeweled. XD. So this is good. And I've played quite a bit -- enough to get to level 20 something -- but I have to ration the rest of this so it will actually, you know, last until the vacation later this month.
And I also got a book. The whys and hows of purchasing this particular book is quite convoluted, however it started with that I was in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section at my local B&N and I saw this book called Loup-Garous...and it was Japanese and it seemed interesting but also slightly random, so I researched the book when I got home -- found nothing about it -- so I wikipedia-ed the author and was intrigued by another work I guess, so I basically ordered that from B&N kind of sight unseen -- I skimmed the summary on wiki. So I picked up the book the same day as the game, but I've been kind of absorbed in said game and SG-1 eps, so haven't even looked at it (because basically I am a devourer of books and it would not have survived unscathed if my interest had been even remotely piqued). But I chanced a look last night and now I'm excited for my vacation most definitely because on the back of the book it says, " The Summer of the Ubume was the debut work by the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction - Natsuhiko Kyogoku." ---- I FREAKING LOVE NEIL GAIMAN. YAY. So this will be very interesting to see if I like the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction.
And I also got a book. The whys and hows of purchasing this particular book is quite convoluted, however it started with that I was in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section at my local B&N and I saw this book called Loup-Garous...and it was Japanese and it seemed interesting but also slightly random, so I researched the book when I got home -- found nothing about it -- so I wikipedia-ed the author and was intrigued by another work I guess, so I basically ordered that from B&N kind of sight unseen -- I skimmed the summary on wiki. So I picked up the book the same day as the game, but I've been kind of absorbed in said game and SG-1 eps, so haven't even looked at it (because basically I am a devourer of books and it would not have survived unscathed if my interest had been even remotely piqued). But I chanced a look last night and now I'm excited for my vacation most definitely because on the back of the book it says, " The Summer of the Ubume was the debut work by the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction - Natsuhiko Kyogoku." ---- I FREAKING LOVE NEIL GAIMAN. YAY. So this will be very interesting to see if I like the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction.