sparklehorse is ALSO out tour right now in the UK!!!
ok, enough with the awful news. onto something nice!!
woke up this morning and finished John Grisham’s The Painted House. This is only the 2nd Grisham novel I’ve read in my life, the other one being the firm, and part of me is wondering why I haven’t been reading more of him. He’s a surprisingly skillful storyteller, able to paint golden brown portraits of the Arkansas farm lands as he is in shading the figures he writes about. The dialogue was extremely well written, far from the stilted language of The Firm. He also paces the novel very well, able to languish in his descriptions of the rural life without sacrificing the excitement of the story, which is largely character driven instead of plot driven. fun read.
there’s nothing like curling up in bed with a good book. why don’t I do it more often? I’ve got all these stacks of books in my bedroom (because I don’t have a bookshelf for them anymore… long story), and I just recently went to marie’s bookstore opening last tuesday and bought even MORE books.
oh!! the bookstore opening! I forgot to write about that! so my old roommate marie recently started working for the new barnes and noble that was just opening up on Hawthorne in Torrance. And they had a friends and family night the day before opening to the public!! yay!! it was so awesome! got to see jen, marie, sue, crispy, and jen’s new roommate jen (I have no idea how that works), but I didn’t get to talk to them a whole lot. I was too busy running around the store! It was sooo nice! it’s sooo big! on top of the requisite bookstore, they also have a cafe and a music section that features the blue dot or red dot or whatever it’s called thingie so you can instantly sample music off any cd in the shop. freaking awesome! anyway, we didn’t get anything from the store, since it was all really overpriced, but we did get several books. jer picked up a few michael crichton books; I picked up a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories and a couple of travel guides for England and Scotland. the travel guides are really great: it’s doesn’t just talk about where to go in those countries; each also has a good history section, with the story being told by the people themselves. It definitely makes for interesting reading! and as for the Fitzgerald short stories… well, i’ve always been a stickler for Fitzgerald. :)
ok, so i’ve got LOTS to read. so what the heck am I doing instead of reading all those good books i’ve got?
1. gaming.
I’ve spent way too much time on NeverWinter Nights. Gosh, that game is evil. Worse than Diablo. sucks you in, and you just want to keeeeep plaaaaying! at first, I thought the story and the characters were kind of cheesy (having totally been spoiled by Blizzard’s too cool and eventually too hilarious characters — try clicking on starcraft or wciii units next time you play), but eventually, you just get into it. i’m developing an elven sorceress right now, and she’s really kick ass. granted, it’s because we cheated and gave her some kick-ass items (pearl’s determination, for one.. hehehe we get to name them!), but it just helps the story go along better. :) anyway, jer and I haven’t played recently because he’s been working a lot; hopefully we’ll play a little bit this weekend. :)
2. this stupid site
if you haven’t noticed, i’ve relocated my site AGAIN. thanks to thomas, I found out about a free public unix shell that offers webhosting for quite a reasonable price. and it’s a FREE PUBLIC UNIX SHELL!! I’m also having waaay too much playing with it. hehehe. it’s food for the inner geek. anyway, please update your links. i’ll be attempting to update portions of the site in the next few weeks (riiight), so there might be some dead links here and there. :( sorry!
3. going to school
it’s amazing how much better you do in school when you go. that’s my insight of the lifetime. -grins-