I Don't Want To Be Perfect Any More

Okay, Katie has beaten me about the head until I made another post. The writing exercises have evolved into me just writing every day, and the more I do it the easier it gets and the more I tend to write. Before I know it I might actually have a whole book, if only I could write in a linear fashion. What this also means is that my reality disconnect is getting worse and worse, so I have to be prodded to do things like this that are actually some form of contact with the outside world aside from AIM and my weekly excursion to Flying Saucer.

School is...school. I am essentially sleeping through two of my classes and getting an A because I learned nearly all the subject matter via actually working in a library. It might also have something to do with the fact that my final project for one of them is an 8-12 page literature review... that we're doing in three person groups. Ah, well, it leaves me more time to build my digital library for my digital libraries class, which is actually teaching me a great deal and making me work besides.

I finished reading Tigana a while back, and I have to say it was very enjoyable. The reviews on Amazon are all 'oh my god the characters are so amazing I've never read anything like this,' and to some extent there is a grain of truth there. The characters are very well done, with very personal motivations for what they're doing. It's not 'let's save the world because it's the right thing to do,' it's 'let's take this king out because he screwed over our country, even though doing so is going to get a lot of other people killed in the crossfire,' which is a refreshing change. I also read the newest (I think) book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which was enjoyable per usual and a good quick read that was a much-needed break for my brain. I've just started Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson (who happens to be the man finishing the Wheel of Time books) and I am certainly intrigued by it, though I haven't gone much further in than 30 pages at this point.

Katie knocked me off the Lady GaGa train with this amazing mashup, which I had on for a few days almost continuously while writing horrible things, and then I knocked myself off that by acquiring pretty much all of BT's music and I've been tripping on that ever since (These Hopeful Machines is a great album).

Also, Ben bought me Settlers 7, which is waaaaaay more fun than it has a right to be, and one day I will play through FFXIII.