So I'm in the bookstore and there's this book see- on the shelf. And it's kinda battered and it looks like it's already been read, or maybe the shipping went wrong, but it's the only copy that particular Indigo had. And it was a book about Superheroes (and I distrust books about superheroes as I feel they work best with a Visual Medium) and it has two writers (though Good Omens made me rethink my distrust of that) and it has a really heavy handed back cover thing and title, I mean, Black And White, how obvious is that? But I bought it and brought it home and


MY GOD

I love this book.

And not in an ironic way. I mean, it's a lot better on the inside. Oh yes. I am going to go finish it now, though I have to get up early and it's getting late (for me).

So when my Carpal Tunnel wouldn't go away after two weeks, the doctor gave me another round of pills and scheduled an appointment with the hospital at the neurology department.

Between the scheduling of the appointment and the actual appointment, the carpal tunnel went away (I still have Tendonitis though, and am getting rather worried about it).

They tested my nerves by giving little electrical shocks to the nerves in my arm, and the static would continue down them making my fingers twitch involuntarily. They did this at multiple points and it felt Very Strange.

Also, my summer course is almost over, I have read several books (including a bunch of Sharpe novels, the new Tamora Pierce book, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, and Moribito), watched a season and a few episodes of R2 of Code Geass, completely failed to find Blackadder the Fourth, and designed my own fictional culture.

So, how are you guys doing?

Now, the funny thing about Summer Vacation is that all of a sudden I have nothing to do. Therefore, I suddenly have time for all those things I couldn't do before, and my Sister came home (with a copy of Persona 3) and so I've been quite busy, somehow.

I've been playing a lot of Persona 3, but fear not - I have started reading.

I just finished Peter Pan in Scarlet, for example. Before that I read the book Cid lent me, Anansi Boys. In both instances, I rather liked the second halves better. Though I did rather enjoy the narrator of Peter Pan in Scarlet.

I really do love Children's Books. When I went into the bookstore to get a copy of Peter Pan in Scarlet, I couldn't help but look around and see books I might like to read. It could take me an hour browsing the Fiction or Fantasy/Sci-fi section of the bookstore trying to find something to read, and approximately five minutes in the Children's section.

So, not only did I come out with the book I was looking for, but also five others. (My sister made me narrow it down to two, but I hadn't looked too closely at the second book [it sounded interesting, I swear], so I didn't notice it was Book 2 in a series, which means I'll have to pick up Book 1)

Here's the thing. I've officially finished classes. I finished Screnzy too.

Now I have absolutely nothing to do.

SO.

Recommend me books! Anything. That's right, anything. Just name the book, give a brief description and why you like it and I'll love you all for ever.

Cheers!

Oh, Wednesday, you magnificent bastard.

Normally, when I read a book, I read it in one or two days, almost all at once. American Gods I read in short bursts for a week. Though the final bit I read all this morning. I almost kind of wish the con went through.

I am getting ready for <a href="http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/>Script Frenzy</a>, which I am very excited about. I don't like to write long passages of narration about the shape of the window sill on which a dead bug is resting. I find it difficult and frustrating. I'm an artist - I want to <i>show</i>. What I do like, however, is writing dialogue. You know how I won Nanowrimo finally? First person narration, figuring that somewhere, Felix was talking to us in a bar, even if he wasn't. It was just one long stream of dialogue. That's why I'm excited for Screnzy - I can just write pages upon pages of dialogue. And for the description, it can just be me talking to the Artist (somebody else or Future!Me) And as a bonus, I can finally tell the tale of the Fizzgizet Fighters. I am tired of winter. I feel like exploring. And I'm still not used to this whole "only six icons" thing.

So I've had a busy day. I bought the first Thursday Next book yesterday, finished it this morning, and ran about today looking for the second one.

Most of what I've been doing, however, is obsessively running about the internet trying to find news, comments, posts and mentions of the whole Scans_Daily affair. I'm actually a little bit scared at myself at how much time that took up.

I need to watch the newest episode of Leverage. I hate season finales. Give me a nice mid-season episode any day. (With the exception of the SG:Atlantis episode "The Siege: Part II". That was a good episode. Mostly because I like seeing Sheppard being a badass. Weird things about Stargate! While my favorite characters are Beckett and McKay, [honorary mention to Weir and Ronon and Sheppard] most of my favorite episodes are Sheppard episodes. Except for Duet, which I like for entirely different reasons).

BBC claims that the average person has read 6 of these 100 books. Prove them wrong.
( Meme! )

Found season two of Stargate: Atlantis, so watched Duet and Runner (in that order). There's nothing like a little McKay, Beckett and Ronon first thing in the morning. Now I just need to watch a Sheppard and Todd episode and a Weir episode and I'll be set. But I can't seem to find my dvd for the third season (which is the best overall, in my opinion). Le Sigh.

I also went and re-read Montmorency. Well, the first one. I love that one. The others... I don't know. I'm going to re-read them too, but I always liked the first one the best. For people who have never read Montmorency! (AKA almost everyone) It's set in Victorian England and is about this man who wants to restart his life after almost getting killed committing a crime. So he gets this plan for some ingenious robberies, and sets up a dual identity. Montmorency, the gentleman, and Scarper, the thief. There are lots of Secret Identity shenanigans and he falls in love with Opera.

Bored sick person is resisting the urge to spam her friends' lists. Also resisting the urge to run about TvTropes to add Montmorency examples everywhere.

EDIT: Stole a meme from starry_arte. Give me a fandom and a pairing or character(s), as well as a number between 1 and 999. This number will correspond to a song on my playlist that will serve as the prompt for your fic.

Note, however, that I don't actually have 999 songs on my playlist, so let's say 1 - 50 and call it even.

Dammit, radio! Stop waking me up with "Human"! What does "Are we human, or are we dancer?" even MEAN anyway? God, when I first heard the lyrics (somebody told them to me) I thought it was some song by some girly J-pop group trying to sing in English and instead they ended up with badly pronounced Engrish translated by Babelfish. And now I have it stuck in my head, which is hilarious in a trainwreck sort of way. _{It is catchy, however.}

On the subject of music, I realized yesterday that despite the subject matter, "Suicide is Painless" never fails to cheer me up. Oh M*A*S*H, I love you. That was the best scene in the Movie, by the way. The game of life is hard to play...

Random note! There doesn't seem to be any parents in Woosterverse. Just aunts. And the occasional uncle or cousin.

Currently I am reading PG Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves in particular. So far the plot of each chapter seems to be this:

Jeeves: Please do not wear that suit/tie/moustache, sir.
Wooster: I say! It appears that I am/my friend is in a spot of bother. Jeeves!
Jeeves: *solves*
Wooster: Great Scott! That was brilliant. In return, I will not wear this suit/tie/moustache.
Jeeves: Thank you, sir.

In other news, I am pretty much convinced that the makers of Batman: The Brave and the Bold are really big Jaime fans. I just want to see the Reach turn up eventually.

Because apparently Batman and Green Arrow's No-Killing rule doesn't count if you're slaying dragons. Who were formerly women. _{Somewhere, there is Maleficent/Morgan le Fay femslash, if Rule 34 is to be believed.}

I had a dream last night where we had a house, and the house could transform into a gigantic robot. Also, there was a wedding. I think I might have been crossdressing again. I mean, in the dreamworld. 'Cause, you know, I never wear Men's Clothing in Real Life. *is currently wearing the shirt for her Riddler costume*

Oh, and I just finished Small Gods. There's nothing like reading three quarters of a book in one sitting that makes me remember that I'm literate. On the other hand, there are no chapters to give me an excuse to stop.

Meme! Recommend me three books you think I might enjoy. Then, post this into your own lj so I can recommend you three books.

On that note, there's something that's been bothering me.
There is something very satisfying, sometimes, about being a fan ahead of the curve. When people do start talking about what you’ve always liked, you smile and grin and feel better about yourself for no good reason other than you were there first.

On the other hand, it’s also very annoying. Last week I bought the new book from the Godspeaker trilogy by Karen Miller, and now I’m rereading the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker books. But I don’t know anybody else that’s read them, and this frustrates me. There is no fandom for these books at all. I haven’t been this disappointed in the internet since the Black Magician trilogy.
I’m half-tempted to make a fangroup for Karen Miller’s books, if only so there is one.


New page! A rescue attempt.

I purposely got exactly on-the-dot 42000 words today. Because, you know, forty-two.

Who's nerdier than me right now? Nooooobody.

I just finished the cane for my Riddler costume. Snazzy! And lightweight. Now I just need a purple tie, pants, and more question marks. Maybe a mask? What's hilarious it the main problem with my costume is my face. I have such a girly face.

I think I'm going to try to get most of it done today, even though I have a lot of work to do.

Oh, and help! Other than the pig, what makes you think of Lord of the Flies?

I finally went and made myself a Riddler icon, though I really should be studying and/or working on homework.

I can now name most of the major bones in the human body off the top of my head (which is made out of parietal and frontal bones of the skull, btw)!

And I've been reading Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, which was a birthday present. It's good! And the Mike Mignola art is so pretty. ♥

A few hours later: I just love the Desert Peach.

Out of artistic interest, I checked out James Jean (who does the Fables covers).

Now, go to his website.

Click on Info. Then Biography.

Well played, Mr. Jean, well played.


PS: I bought the Coldplay cd. I think that brings the total of non-soundtrack cds I own up to three or four. Don't judge me.

PPS: I forgot how much I like Sherlock Holmes.

I can't find my Mythologica, which boggles my mind because that book is friggin' huge.

*eyes empty wallet* I knew going to the comic book store again would be a bad idea, but I didn't realize just how expensive it would be.

Am slightly panicking from my workload. Egh.

So somehow I knew about Jack Ryder, and the Creeper, and never knew they were the same person. So while researching this, I found the B:tAS episode "Beware the Creeper". Hee.

I went to my class today only to discover that I didn't have a class today. At 8:30 am. I would be more frustrated, if, y'know, I didn't always wake up before 8:30. But I'm not actually used to going anywhere at that time. *complaining for no good reason*

I want to write a story with this crazy old lady as the main character. Just sayin'.

Last but not least, according to FUBAR: Soldier Slang of WWII, the Japanese nicknamed a Type 1 toxic gas hand grenade "chibi" (although I know enough about Japanese to know its probably spelled differently). There was a little part of me that really wanted to draw a chibi Chibi. Also, I want to draw Wolverine shooting a wolverine.

I'M SO HAPPY.

So Cid's here, see? For dinner. And afterwards I pull off a book from the bookshelf behind me (FUBAR, btw), and read from it, and suddenly he says that I should read something else, so I'm like "what?" and he points to a book behind me, and I read the title and he says "yeah."
(I'm paraphrasing here)
And then Dad says "She can't read that."
To which Cid replies, "Why not?"
And Dad says "Well, because we don't have the book."
Me n' Cid: "? ... OH."

So I pulls off the book off the shelf and two other books come off with it and it turns out to be one of THOSE books. You know, the books that have the inside hollowed out and are actually a box.

I always wanted one, and for some odd reason the idea that there was always one under my nose without me realizing makes me unbearably happy.

I'm strangely awake even though I slept in 'till eleven (sleeping past nine always makes me groggy, so being perfectly fine after eleven is almost unheard of). However, I think this is because I was up 'till three yesterday.
That's right - I saw The Dark Knight. I'm not going to tell you anything, though.

On a somewhat different note, I had a really strange (and long) day yesterday. Going out to buy buns, being unable to get in through the front entrance and having to throw rocks at my own window (that had the opposite effect I was intended: When my sister finally picked up the phone, she realized it was me that was throwing rocks and absolutely refused to let me in, even though I only had an hour to relax before heading to my field trip. In hindsight, throwing rocks was a really poor decision).
I had class too.

And I was reading Prisoner of Azkaban all day between all this. The third book always reminds me why I love Lupin so much. Him and his chocolate.