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The Creeping Dolly Partons
Aug. 25th, 2005 01:31 pm
Today is very mellow. There've been a few people in to sell books, but in general it hasn't been a big deal. There are also the same endless phone calls from the same college students asking for textbooks, but that, too, is no big deal. It's a day like any other day, but I'm really enjoying it.
There's no internet over at the apartments, and I'm not sure why. I'm positive Delphinios is on top of it, though. In the meantime, I get to update from work!
Next month or two is going to be a little chaotic, but nothing bad. I'm definitely going to have to get more practice keeping expenditures to a minimum. I've been disappointingly lax with money as of late, and I'll see if I can't tighten up the purse-strings next week. To my credit, I haven't been terrible about infractions, but I could be better.
I could put something generic about love and contentment and...serenity, or something, here, but there are no words that don't sound like a Hallmark card. I'm just in a really good place right now. :)
I love Tube.
Fell in to Remnants again, and it boggles the mind why this hasn't been made into a kick-ass TV show. For those not quite up on their semi-obscure juvenile fiction, Remnants is a series of young adult/juvenile novels written by K.A. Applegate, who also wrote Animorphs, which should be a bit more familiar. That *was* turned into a TV show, but it didn't fare too well. I think it was on Nickelodeon.
Anyway, this series is about a group of people (known as The Eighty) who were put on a retrofitted shuttle and shot off into space as humanity's last hope; an asteroid broke the world apart right after they left. It's very grim, surprisingly gory, surreal and bleak. I absolutely love it. :) There are a few conventions that will remind you that it's a kids' book -- the names are the biggest giveaway (who in their right minds would name themselves Mo'Steel, 2Face and all of that?), but if you look past those...great visuals! The Eighty, in the first few novels, get stuck in an Ansel Adams photograph, and a pastiche of the paintings of Heironymous Bosch(sp?). Yes, it's as weird as it sounds, but damned good reading. With a bit of tweaking, it would make for damned good television, too. But this is just how my mind works.
There's no internet over at the apartments, and I'm not sure why. I'm positive Delphinios is on top of it, though. In the meantime, I get to update from work!
Next month or two is going to be a little chaotic, but nothing bad. I'm definitely going to have to get more practice keeping expenditures to a minimum. I've been disappointingly lax with money as of late, and I'll see if I can't tighten up the purse-strings next week. To my credit, I haven't been terrible about infractions, but I could be better.
I could put something generic about love and contentment and...serenity, or something, here, but there are no words that don't sound like a Hallmark card. I'm just in a really good place right now. :)
I love Tube.
Fell in to Remnants again, and it boggles the mind why this hasn't been made into a kick-ass TV show. For those not quite up on their semi-obscure juvenile fiction, Remnants is a series of young adult/juvenile novels written by K.A. Applegate, who also wrote Animorphs, which should be a bit more familiar. That *was* turned into a TV show, but it didn't fare too well. I think it was on Nickelodeon.
Anyway, this series is about a group of people (known as The Eighty) who were put on a retrofitted shuttle and shot off into space as humanity's last hope; an asteroid broke the world apart right after they left. It's very grim, surprisingly gory, surreal and bleak. I absolutely love it. :) There are a few conventions that will remind you that it's a kids' book -- the names are the biggest giveaway (who in their right minds would name themselves Mo'Steel, 2Face and all of that?), but if you look past those...great visuals! The Eighty, in the first few novels, get stuck in an Ansel Adams photograph, and a pastiche of the paintings of Heironymous Bosch(sp?). Yes, it's as weird as it sounds, but damned good reading. With a bit of tweaking, it would make for damned good television, too. But this is just how my mind works.
