As usual:
Favorites
Re-reads
1) Dune by Frank Herbert
2) Bone (Volume 1): Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith
3) Bone (Volume 2): The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith
4) Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
5) Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewwelling
6) Traitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling
7) The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling
8) Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson
9) Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling
10) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
11) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
12) The Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling
13) The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling
14) Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (again! I love it THAT MUCH)
15) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
16) Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
17) The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
18) Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich (the movie 21 is based off of this book)
19) Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
20) Paper Towns by John Green
21) Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso
22) Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
So far so good on the count, hopefully I can keep it up!
- Mood:
sleepy
+ The Music Man is going great! Just finished our second weekend of shows with two more to go! I'd recommend going here, here, and here for pictures (!!!) and a review :D
+ Got my laptop back FINALLY, I missed it so much! It's a bit slower now but hopefully I get to do something to fix that. I'm also beta testing Windows 7, the new one coming out soon after Vista. Generally I like it, it's pretty and all but so far my sims games are not working the way I want them to which is ;_;
- Which led to me having to re-install them today and trying everything I can to get previously backed-up files to show up which worked the last time I had to do it and NOW IT DOESN'T. Hopefully taking a break from it will help...
+ Working at Six Flags is, in general, good. It has been hot here lately and they don't have much shade for us, which I really wished they would do something about and have mentioned before, but we'll see. It keeps me sane knowing that I don't plan to be there forever, or at least not as long as I was in retail. Also, working animal exhibits at a theme park is MUCH better than in foods or something. However...
- To: Visitors of the park, Just because an animal is not moving does NOT mean it is dead or fake. I know common sense is severely lacking in a lot of you people, but we would not have a dead animal on display and do you REALLY think that we would spend all that that effort on new expensive exhibits just to put fake animals in them? Also, WE treat our animals fine, thanks for asking, YOU do not. WE do not spit at alligators to make them move, YOU do, WE do not pull on the tails of stingrays, YOU do, and WE do not bang on the glass windows of the marine animals, YOU do. Also, not every shark you see is a great white, not every stingray is a manta ray and not every penguin comes from Antarctica. But I just explained all of it and you would know this too if you had been listening. No love, me.
+ To end this on a non-ranty ending...
I HAVE SEEN THE TRAILER FOR AVATAR AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT, AANG LOOKS BADASS
ALSO HARRY POTTER MOVIE IS GETTING CLOSER TIME TO START LOOKING FOR EARLY RESERVE TICKETS AT IMAX FTW
SO IS THE RELEASE OF THE NEW NIGHTRUNNER BOOK (!!!!)
- Mood:
bored
- 12:15 Getting my computer back today finally!!! I've missed it so much! #
- 12:18 Apparently i'm also going to be beta testing windows 7, the new one after vista... I wonder how that will go #
- 13:35 Listening to Stargate podcasts is more entertaining than I thought! #
- 12:05 At cousin Ryan's graduation. Congrats to everyone! #
- 21:58 @sodaboy581 I was trying to reload windows and it seemed like it was working okay until it shut off for no reason :( #
- 21:24 I has contacts again! Just in time for the show AND summer! #
- 21:24 @realjohngreen finished reading Paper Towns loved it & found another use as prop during Music Man! Promoting books thru musical theatre FTW! #
- 22:06 Computer STILL sick. Now it keeps shutting off and I can't find the reboot disk, ack. It's very sad... #
- 12:46 Have ALL DAY off tomorrow. This is huge since it hasn't happened in a while yay! #
- 12:55 Rehearsal + work all day = my feet as a giant ball of pain #
- 17:12 I currently have: boyfriend, a/c, and ice cream. It is a good day :D #
- 20:27 At rehearsal for music man! #
- 19:44 At work with the penguins, dolphins, walruses! #
- 19:51 But ugh am outside all day and forgot my allergy medicine *sniffle~ #
Made some plans for things and such to do Sunday:
11am - CLAMP gathering for
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ky313. Dunno if we'll get there in time though, too early O.o2pm - Panel "Whose line is it Anime?" Anime + improv! Will probably stop by for a bit.
2pm - Ballroom, swing dancing in preparation for the Black and White ball :D
3:30pm - Avatar gathering! We can make it this year!
4pm - Panel "So you wanna live in Japan?" for
ky313.4:30pm - Kenshin gathering for
ky313. Gonna have to decide on which ones to stay at...5pm - Signings, Ken Lally from Heroes.
6pm - Panel "Gaia Online". Must not miss this time but worried it may be boring.
6pm - Black and White Ball. Tempted to go considering we haven't done this before! Plus, dressing up is fun!
8:30pm - Some kind of Yaoicon raffle thing. Not sure what this is but I'm thinking we could drop in to find out :D
Nothing we want to do on Monday so we'll do what we did last year and hang around in our cosplay taking pictures!
One of these years I'll be able to go the WHOLE weekend AND have more than one cosplay :D
- Mood: about to be in bed...
- Music:some random bird chirping at midnight
- 14:36 Computer has swine flu lol and is at the doctors for a couple of days #
- 19:05 Comp is sick ... May not have it for a few days... Will read instead lol #
I had wanted to read this book ever since I heard that it was about a boy who lived in a graveyard and was raised by ghosts. Finally bought the hardback because the wait at the library was too long!
A MUST READ.
It's wonderfully spooky and there are twists and turns, not sharp ones but more like a winding road because of the amazing way that Neil Gaiman writes! And Bod Owens is such a charming and loveable main character! I also fangirl his guardian Silas. Not sure how much I can say about the man Jack without giving things away except that the thing that he's involved in is really clever and I wish we learned more!
And aww the end almost made me cry but it was SUCH a good way to end it because of the possibilities for Bod Owens, not in the way of sequels but for his character :D
And I almost forgot about the artwork by Dave McKean! The black and white drawings are anything but simple and they really make you feel like you're a part of the story.
So yes, go read this right away, it's so worth it (like all of Neil Gaiman's work!)
- Mood:
contemplative
- 23:58 Rehearsals for Music Man start Monday! So excited to be in it again (with The Boy), it's one of my faves... #
- 23:59 Also, The Producers this December! Can't wait! Want to be an old lady/dancer! #
- 00:04 eeee! I got books today too! Three Terry Pratchett and two John Green! Now to finish Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book, it's awesome :D ) #
