Stuff and Things

[annundriel]

I went to church with Grandma this morning. First time I'd been since, hmm, Christmas I suppose. It wasn't too bad, but there seemed to be some weird undercurrent going on. Or maybe I'm just bored and looking for subtext where there's only text. The priest at my home parish is fairly regularly late to mass, but today he was, according to some people's watches (not mine), on time. Grandma turned to me before hand and said something amounting to, "I guess someone called him on it." Maybe that put ideas in my head. But then the deacon gave his sermon and midway through said something about, "No offense to Father." Either I missed something, or there's been more tension than usual at our rinky-dinky church. It's quite possible I missed something though, I kind of zoned out at one point. Shame on me.

Mostly I went because I feel guilty not going when I'm at home. And I won't be around next week.

Anyway, after mass I talked to a few people. Twice people mentioned how wonderful they've heard my writing is and asked when am I going to be published. Before mass Neesha's grandma asked me the same thing and reminded me that when it happens she gets a first edition signed copy.

And all I could think was, wow, I'm going to disappoint all of you.

And then I was a bit depressed.

So we came home and I finished reading Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime. It was fun and enjoyable in the way that all of Fforde's writing has been so far. (I still highly recommend his Thursday Next series. Especially if you're into literature.) It was slow reading for me, though. I don't know if that was because of a fault on the writing's part, or just me having trouble focusing on anything. I think mostly it's the latter. There was some strange word-thing going on at the beginning of the final chapter, and either it was an editing/publishing error, or Fforde just didn't explain it. Sometimes you can't tell with his stuff.

I think I'm going to finish reading Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. It was the final novel assigned in Ethnic American Literature and as I already had the focus of my final paper, I let it fall behind.

Amazon.com is my friend. The other day I ordered, among other things, Sports Night. Because I need to see the rest of it! And because I love every character. And it's great. I'm excited to get it.

I'm going to Seattle on June 28 to return on July 5. Mom and I will be house- and dog-sitting. Sometime during that period we're going to kidnap pick up Natasha at SU and go apartment supply shopping. Mom says it's also highly likely that we can see Superman Returns as well. Now if only I was in the Seattle area for Pirates of the Caribbean as well. I've got the theme music stuck in my head already. And every time a preview comes on I'm like, "OMG Norrington!" and Mom goes, "Where? Where?" So I pointed out his arm. And then I showed her pictures and she went, "ooh."

And, wow, the week after that's out, SGA and SG-1 come back. The beginning of July is going to be good.

Comments

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

You will need to come see me when you are around! We move into our new place on the 1st and 2nd! Yay.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I will be able to. Will have to talk Mom into it, 'cause I don't go anywhere without her (scary traffic). Yea for moving in!!