happy Monday!

[electricland]

I slept a lot this weekend and was not wildly productive. I did make it to lostvoice's birthday pub night, also to chamber choir practice. I had fun at the former and think I'm going to enjoy the latter -- it's a nice group (of whom, bizarrely, three people plus me are from my choir and four are from my mother's choir; small world) and the music is tricky enough to be interesting, but not impossible. Granted, we were only doing four parts yesterday, not eight, and when we get to eight I will be all alone at Alto 2, but I have hope. The conductor seems really nice.

[Edit: The reason I slept a lot on Saturday was I went to the Rivoli for monkeycommando's birthday on Friday night and drank a lot and played pool, which I haven't done in far too long. It was great, although Dan and I had something of an arms race of ass-grabbing that, in retrospect, may have been a little disturbing to the casual onlooker. I am not sure why I forgot to mention this in my original post; possibly my brain was searching only the "Saturday" and "Sunday" archives.]

I attempted pot roast, but fear it may have been overcooked. We didn't actually eat it because pariah_ink came over and I'd made it with wine, so that was no good. Jen made curry instead.

Still obsessed by Killer Sudoku.

Books read this week:

The Ill-Bred Bride, Rosemary Edghill, of which more later.
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware. Have to admit I only skimmed this -- I may go back and read it properly. Technically impressive and surprisingly moving, but I didn't actually like it very much.
Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier.
Jennifer Government, Max Barry, which was uneven but hilarious.
Flirting in Cars, Alisa Kwitney, who has apparently been gone from Vertigo long enough to have written 7!!! books. I liked this one very much. (It also made an inadvertent single-mother diptych with Jennifer Government.) I don't, however, think much of the cover.
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Fun -- I'll hope the movie is decent.

Comments

[kaelsu2.livejournal.com]

Wow, I wish I had as much time to read... well that is, other than school related articles and books!

Good for you!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

you also need to understand that Ell's sooper-seekrit super power is the ability to read LIGHTENING fast. She doesn't so much read books as INHALE them ;). Us mere mortals simply look on in awe....

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Also, most of the time, it's not like I'm reading wildly complex books that I have to struggle to understand. Those take me longer.

Although I believe monkeycommando is still a little bitter about the time I read Foucault's Pendulum in 2 1/2 days.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

you read it in 2.5 days?!!! Un.Be.Liev.Able.

Also, some of us still take months to read Gaudy Night....

It's really a wonder I EVER got all them funky letters that follow my name that suggest I have read lots of stuff....

(though I think 13 years of post-secondary education with a focus on matters literary and discoursal may well have broken me, or at least my desire/ability to read like a mad fool ;).

[electricland.livejournal.com]

though I think 13 years of post-secondary education with a focus on matters literary and discoursal may well have broken me, or at least my desire/ability to read like a mad fool

It would sure as hell break me!

[kaelsu2.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sadly, although I love to read, I not a fast reader at all. Sometimes it feels like I read painfully slow. Which, can be troublesome when trying to get at my readings done for school!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

oh, do I empathize. I don't read particularly quickly either. I went to school for a VERY long time. I realized I could never be a Victorian Lit scholar, as Victorian writers were LONG winded (or rather, often paid by the word, which amounts to the same thing!) and I do Not. Read. QUickly. Enough if that is my JOB.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

What raithen said... also, I'm not exactly reading things that are any kind of struggle, most of the time.

How are you? Haven't seen you in a while!

[kaelsu2.livejournal.com]

hey there! I'm good, very busy with school stuff, work and advertising for Polaris! It must have been great fun going to see Kath in Dublin! Are you doing anything special for your B-day? I can't believe how quickly October is flying by!

Hugs!