current reading.

Beauty
A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

by Robin McKinley

i really like this one. her first retelling of the fairy tale is definitely different than her second (Rose Daughter). in the foreword to the second, she says she was never intending to come back to the tale. Rose Daughter is much more, well, fairy tale in nature. more fanciful, more flowy. Beauty is told first-person and is much more down-to-earth in style. i may have to buy this one as well. assuming it's still in print anymore.

breaking rules.

circumstances have conspired to make my birthday really inconvenient for everyone this year. it's depressing. i try to keep this refreshingly angst free, but just in case someone decides to talk to me in the next couple of days, i might not be feeling so hot.

happy new year!

it is 5767. well. for some of us :)

it is also the first day of autumn. funny how sometimes the lunar calendar and the solar calendar have these little meetings.

pain and recovery.

he had all four of his wisdom teeth out on thursday. there was quite a lot of blood. for a few hours, even the whole bedroom smelled like it. but now he is recovering pretty well, actually. he says the sutures are already dissolving. insisting on going to work today, although as of right this moment, he's still asleep under the influence of the lovely, lovely hydrocodone. he's also got penicillin and some kind of anti-inflammatory, to try and keep the swelling down.

the weirdest thing about all these prescriptions is that the vicodin was the cheapest. $9.99 for 16 500mg tablets. no wonder people abuse this stuff. it's ridiculously cheap! my sister even says it's cheaper for her to just pay for the pills rather than bother with the insurance co-pay. i can't help but think that at these prices, no one is really concerned about "prescription drug abuse." cheap narcotics! whee! and no, you can't have any ;)

previous reading.

Angels and Demons

by Dan Brown

my mom gave me Angels and Demons to read while on the plane to california. so i did, because i've honestly been curious about the whole dan brown phenomenon.

i have to say, i don't understand it.

about 150 pages into the book, i looked up and said to no one in particular in the airport gate area, "this is a horrible book." and it is, really. the writing is about on the level of a 12-year-old who just took his first creative writing class, with boring, barely developed characters, plot points that rely on ignorance, and horriby overwrought foreshadowing. the language is cheesy and stereotypical (the italian heroine glowers. well, who would have thought?). it's just a horribly written, stupid book.

they tell me The Da Vinci Code is better, and quite frankly, i can't see how it could be worse.

marketing schemes.

so, two months after we acquired our DS lites, nintendo announces they are, in fact, releasing DS lits in the u.s. in different colors. knew he should have waited. i could have a black DS. *sniffle* i might have to look into selling my white one. aww.

arrival.

my tshirt has arrived! whee!

in an unexpected twist, the mailman shoved it in our pigeonhole mailbox. it was a good thing i checked the shipping status this evening, or it might have remained there all week (we don't check mail often).

protection.

i have run into the software copy protection conundrum. having come back from vacation, i had an urge to play warcraft 2 again. i have a bought and paid for copy. i even still have the manual.

what i don't have any more is the CD case. this is because it was run over while we were moving. i have discovered that the CD case was the only place the serial number is stored. so now i am in the awkward position of having to scrape the net to find an illegal serial and/or crack for a game which i legally own.

this is irritating.

happy birthday.

this blog was two years old yesterday. awwwww.

i'm suprised i kept it going this long. i must be somewhere weird on the bellcurve by now.