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I know that this will come as quite a shock to everyone living here in the Northwest, but it's too damn hot!
I don't really have a right to complain because most of the country and the rest of the world has to deal with worse heat and humidity. But I'm gonna complain anyway. I leave for work every day around 2:45 pm and my car is too hot to touch anything, and there's no air conditioning, which is my fault of course but it still sucks. ^_^
I finished The Hobbit on cd. Thorin died a noble death, but otherwise spoke his lines woodenly. I didn't remember most of the ending of the book... from what I remembered, the dragon was killed and they all came home happy. There's a lot more that happens after the dragon bites it that I didn't recall, but I read this book in like 9th grade or something and haven't really read it since.
It was interesting to contrast it with some of Philip Jose Farmer's books. After the climax, there's a good deal of story left. Tolkien tells us about Bilbo's return journey, and his arrival at home, and how he lived a long time after, and how Gandalf and one of the dwarves came to visit again. I can name at least two Farmer books that end right at the climax -- Farmer rightly knows that that's where the main story ends. But it certainly doesn't hurt to know that they all got back safe, and their cousins didn't get to sell off everything in their house, and they got to meet again later and talk of old times. Farmer can be right and still be wrong about how to end a book.
I've been listening to my Feel So Bad cds lately, and ripping them to my hard drive. I've made a collection of all my favorite Connells songs, and another of all my favorite Sleater-Kinney songs, and another of all my favorite Lush songs, and now I need to do one of all my favorite Feel So Bad songs. I've been thinking that I need to bring a "best of" collection to give away at every writer's night.
I also got Ranma 1/2 season 3 and 4 on dvd, and I need to give away the first four seasons on vhs tape so that I have room for all my dvds.
( and then I mangled my thumb a little )
I don't really have a right to complain because most of the country and the rest of the world has to deal with worse heat and humidity. But I'm gonna complain anyway. I leave for work every day around 2:45 pm and my car is too hot to touch anything, and there's no air conditioning, which is my fault of course but it still sucks. ^_^
I finished The Hobbit on cd. Thorin died a noble death, but otherwise spoke his lines woodenly. I didn't remember most of the ending of the book... from what I remembered, the dragon was killed and they all came home happy. There's a lot more that happens after the dragon bites it that I didn't recall, but I read this book in like 9th grade or something and haven't really read it since.
It was interesting to contrast it with some of Philip Jose Farmer's books. After the climax, there's a good deal of story left. Tolkien tells us about Bilbo's return journey, and his arrival at home, and how he lived a long time after, and how Gandalf and one of the dwarves came to visit again. I can name at least two Farmer books that end right at the climax -- Farmer rightly knows that that's where the main story ends. But it certainly doesn't hurt to know that they all got back safe, and their cousins didn't get to sell off everything in their house, and they got to meet again later and talk of old times. Farmer can be right and still be wrong about how to end a book.
I've been listening to my Feel So Bad cds lately, and ripping them to my hard drive. I've made a collection of all my favorite Connells songs, and another of all my favorite Sleater-Kinney songs, and another of all my favorite Lush songs, and now I need to do one of all my favorite Feel So Bad songs. I've been thinking that I need to bring a "best of" collection to give away at every writer's night.
I also got Ranma 1/2 season 3 and 4 on dvd, and I need to give away the first four seasons on vhs tape so that I have room for all my dvds.
( and then I mangled my thumb a little )
