random blatherings about the last two days...

[katster]

so, it's oh dark thirty, and I should have gone to bed hours ago, but...ah well.

Lesse, been a busy few days. Monday, hit up the coolest used bookstore in town (it may be boringtown, but there's *three* used bookstores in town, this is the one place where it's definitely *not* boring), and got the last book in the Homecoming series by Orson Scott Card, and Door into Fire by Diane Duane, which is the book ac's talking about reading as a group. And I hope to be properly introduced by that point (just a raftered lurker at the moment, but I'd like to be more involved...).

Also went to Walmart and got myself a shiny new pair of hiking boots which I should start wearing so that both pairs of shoes are broken in by this summer. I know Patrick's going to be dragging me around Halifax, and I remember the *pain* of walking down Geary from Divisadero into downtown on hiking boots not properly broken in. Painful. But those shoes were comfortable after that.

Speaking of Patrick, he's got a presentation this afternoon, and I want to wish him luck on that. Even though he's going to do fine, as long as he remembers that Napoleon's legions of Zulus had nothing to do with the Battle of Acinum, or whatever the heck he's talking about. :)

...and there are times I wish windows had grep, so I could find the right spelling for that word in my colleciton of IRC logs...

but I'm off subject. Tuesday. I didn't go to class today, I've come down with another round of the Bronchitis from Hell, and went to the doctor. He said to get rest. Thus, I am getting rest, the best way I know how, which is going to Barnes and Noble and buying sixty bucks in books. Yes, I'm a bibleophile. So I have now Learning XML and XML in a Nutshell, thus adding to my zoo. (and those two books were forty dollars together, but...).

I also bought three scifi/fantasy books: Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer, an author Patrick got me hooked on (Calculating God sent my mind off on new spiritual tangents, which is something I find important); So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane (the first book in a series that I'm told puts Harry Potter to shame); and Lifehouse by Spider Robinson. So I've got lots of reading material...

Interestingly enough, Sawyer and Spider are Canadians, and Duane is a Brit, so none of my scifi/fantasy purchases today were that of an American author, which I found funny. :)

Oh yeah, I have two shiny new Great Big Sea albums: Turn and Sea of No Cares. The latter is what I referred to when I said I was waiting for goldfish to ship, because the cover of SoNC has a great big goldfish on the cover. I am happy with both these albums, and I want it to be known that my favourite GBS song is now "Sea of No Cares." However, "French Perfume" wins for both most graphic imagery and song I cannot get out of my head...

Anyway, I think that's enough for this level of random blather. Congrats if you made it to here.

Last thing. I got a Googlewhack! yay. :) It doesn't take much to make me semi-happy these days.

Comments

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Meant the previous comment to be in reply to fearghail. Oh well. Here's the comment I meant to be in reply to the LJ entry:

Duane's Wizard series rocks, or at least the first three boks did: So you want to be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry.

And Spider techncially isn't Canadian. He's an export from Long Island. I'm still convinced that he fled the country to avoid returning some books to the SF4M library...

[katster.livejournal.com]

Duane's Wizard series rocks, or at least the first three boks did: So you want to be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry.

Yeah, I've heard really high recommendations of her works from alt.callahans, which seems to me to be a place of well educated folks who have good taste, so...we'll give it a try.

And Spider techncially isn't Canadian. He's an export from Long Island. I'm still convinced that he fled the country to avoid returning some books to the SF4M library...

Heh, yeah, I knew that. But I think he's naturalized Canadian now, and Halifax proudly claims him as one of their own. (Ask Zibby about the reception he got to reading Spider's books (his birthday present) on the bus to and from school...) Although I hear Spider's living out Vancouver way now. Which still makes the statement true, although Sawyer is definitely more Canadian than Spider. (The blurb in one of the back of Sawyer's books read something like "the only native born Canadian in science fiction", which I pointed out to Zibb would be something that neither he nor I could claim...) :)

And if you can read that paragraph, my hat is off to you.

I should quit responding to LJ comments at two in the morning.

-kat

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Two in the morning? Heck, it's not 2, it's 5:30!

;)

[katster.livejournal.com]

And it's 6:30 where a certain Haligonian who is deeply in love with me is, which means that I'm going to get squawked at whenever I wake up, and he wakes up.

And this is the third time this week I've been up this late with the full knowledge I have school in the morning, so...

I need to figure out why I'm having troubles sleeping. Because I am badly out of phase.

-kat

[tropism.livejournal.com]

I've got the exact same problem right now. at the moment, I've decided to stay up in an attempt to get myself back into phase...this, of course, may or may not work, and I'll pobably just wind up crashing sometime around 10 Am, but hey, it's worth a shot.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for me, the weekend is the earliest I can try that game of shifting phase, and my parents think very poorly of me falling asleep while there's still sun out. what I ought to do is try desperately to get myself on Atlantic time as best I can. ;) (difficult, because I start a class at 11 PM Atlantic, so...)

-kat, burning out, she suspects.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Bad Katster! ;) I guess it's partially my fault too, keeping you up like this. ;)

Me, I got pretty much permantly set on Pacific Time in '96, when I first hit IRC.

Your parents not wanting you to fall asleep during the day sucks -- that's one of the thigns I need to do most of the time to correct a shift...you could always claim you're not feeling well, or something, I suppose, but...*grins and shrugs*

[katster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. It sucks for Zibb, because I've got him set on Pacific time as well, with 9:30 AM AST classen (which is 5:30 AM here...). Ah well, he'll get his chance to convert me when I get up there this summer, if I can get him to nag his mom about my coming... ;)

As for keeping me up, I couldn't sleep anyway, so...better randomly typing and starting long threads on LJ, eh? :)

and yeah, I may have to do that. But first things first...

-kat, who should really sleep...blah.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

You're getting up there for the summer? When? Crap, I'm gonna have to see if I can't kill two birds with one stone and manage to find my way up there for a weekend or something ... I haven't visited any net.people for a long time, and this'd kill two lovebirds with one stone...*duck* *grin*

[katster.livejournal.com]

Late June to mid July, if all goes well. I fully intend to spend Canada Day celebrating with the Canadians, and then see what it feels like to spend my own national holiday in a country not my own... :) I've been dying to do this since my friend Luns (a native Torontonian) and I spent one memoriable Fourth of July running around San Francisco on what we called our joint Canada Day/Independence Day celebration. (And I'm coming up a bit early because we mark six months on June 29th, and the ever sweet Zibby has asked me out on a date to celebrate. *grin*) :)

And it's possible my flights could route through Newark, so I'll keep you posted...

-kat, going to bed now,possibly, unless she finds another distraction, which isn't hard to do...

[fearghaill.livejournal.com]

If all else fails, feel free to whack 'im upside the noggin and drag him north with you. The more net.ppl the merrier.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Well, that would involve actually meeting him first. Contrary to popular opinion, New York and California are thousands of miles apart... ;)

-kat