STAGNATION

I think that I hate 80% of the people I am around on a daily basis. Today is no different. I need a change of...environment. This one is stagnant.

OPTOMETRISTS NEED APPLY

I'm beginning to suspect that I really need glasses.

BOOKS OF 2008

These are all of the books that I have read and remembered, from the year of 2008. Pretty sure I stole this idea from Anna. Lets just say that I had a lot of free time this year.

1. The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld: Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras
2. Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus In Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin
3. Alvin Maker Series by Orson Scott Card: The Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, Heartfire, The Crystal City
4. Ender series by Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow(companion novel to Ender's Game)
5. Dante Valentine series by Lilith Saintcrow: Working for the Devil, Dead Man Rising, The Devil's Right Hand, Saint City Sinners
8. Sarah Tolerance series by Madeleine E. Robins: Point of Honour, Petty Treason
7. Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer: Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger, In the Belly of the Bloodhound, Mississippi Jack, My Bonny Light Horseman
8. Tithe series: Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
9. Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare: City of Bones, City of Ashes
10. Stephani Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn
11. Rachel Cohn: Gingerbread, Shrimp, Cupcake, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
12. Chuck Palahniuk: Diary, Choke, Lullaby
13. Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
14. Ever by Gail Carson Levine
15. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
16. Leather Maiden by Joe Lansdale
17. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
18. Airhead by Meg Cabot
19. Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
20. The Iron Hunt by Marjorie Liu
21. Better Than Running At Night by Hillary Frank
22. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
23. Vibes by Amy Kathleen Ryan
24. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

VOYEUR

Once again, QC is using my life for comedic purpose.

I WOULD BE MORMON FOR ORSON SCOTT CARD

I am in freaking love with Orson Scott Card. After my initial reluctance to read his books (due in large part to being obstinately against whatever Peter was worshipping that month) I started reading The Seventh Son. After I finished off what there is of that series in record breaking time, I decided to take a break from his literary greatness. Then, at the Humboldt Public Library, I felt the gnawing ache to read him again. I chose Ender's Game and was not disappointed. The book was effing great and so was its sequel Speaker for the Dead.

I am currently reading Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer. Not similar reading at all, but still awesome nonetheless. After I finish that book though, I am going directly to Xenocide, the continuance of the Ender quartet. Card amazes me, mostly because I can get into his books that are sci-fi, even though most science fiction novels bore me to tears.

I want Orson Scott Card's lovechild.

The end.

DO YOU STILL GET INTO SANDWICHES IN A BIG WAY?

So, Trevor recently got me into this Folk Parody duo, Flight of the Conchords. They are hilarious. Also, I fucking love their Kiwi accents. New Zealand produces beautiful musicians, I found while surfing the Last.fm. Goldenhorse, Jonathan Coulton, and Evermore are prime examples. They briefly made me think of moving there. However, I think I am still headed for Iceland, birthplace of Bjork. It is the most developed country in the world, you know.

In anycase, check out Jenny, it is my personal fave.

Brian: "...We talked about how the lights from the buildings and cars seemed like reflections from the stars that shine out so pretty and bright, that night..."

Jenny: "It was daytime."

Brian: "....the daytime of the night!"

Jenny: "Do you remember what you said to me?"

Brian: "Not word for word, actually, Jenny...but I remember there was some verbs."



ps. I want Jermaine's body.

HAPPY MAY!