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Nov. 12th, 2009 10:18 amI'm at my favorite coffee shop today because today is Thursday, and Thursday is my busy day.
First of all, it's always recycling. It's also fish tank changing day. Thursday is the day that I volunteer to stuff folders at Mason's school, as well. Tonight is Wyrdsmiths, which means that soon I need to go home find the handouts from last week, read and critique them, AND print out what I'm going to hand out tonight. By chance this evening is also a meeting for parents, etc., of gifted students and I agreed to go to that since it's downtown and they're going to provide my dinner (and it gets done before Wyrdsmiths starts).
Did I mention busy?
Oy.
Even so, I managed to finish Scott Westerfeld's SO YESTERDAY, which I enjoyed. The hero is a teenager named Hunter whose job it is to spot trends, sniff out cool just before it hits the mainstream. His love interest is a girl named Jen who is an Innovator, someone who invents cool just before it hits mainstream, but, consequentially, is also a bit odd and out of step in her own way. They get caught up in a mystery involving shoes. (Seriously.)
I'd really wanted to read Westerfeld's UGLY/PRETTIES series, but my library only had one that seemed to be far along in the series. SO YESTERDAY was the only one of his that they had that was self-contained. As I mentioned before I was actually a fan of Westerfeld's and didn't know it. I read both the short story and what eventually became the novel EVOLUTION'S DARLING, which I found weird, but compelling. Westerfeld has some kind of funky writing juju, I think. I suspect he shouldn't be as popular as he is, but his narrative tone/voice is strangely compelling. I wish I could figure out how to harvest that, and make it work for me.
Shawn and I also watched "My Life in Ruins" a chick-flick about a 40-something woman who works as a tour guide in Greece who finds true love with a scruffy bus driver named "Poopy." (Seriously.)
Say what you will, but I tend to really enjoy feel good movies where people find love. One thing I've learned about myself is that I'm not terribly discriminating about what I want from a movie. I was a terrible movie reviewer when I did it for focusPOINT because I'm not all that critical of these kinds of sappy, formulaic films. I get wound up about my science fiction or my angel movies and I tend to find art films obtuse and irritating, but the Hollywood formula works for me. I like my action films to run like a big advertisement for the video game with a lot of explosions, and I want my romances to be sappy and predictable.
It's embarrassing, really. Shawn inevitably looks over at me and says, horrified, "Are you sniffling???"
I don't want to talk about it. I'm easy, okay?
My folks are coming up this weekend to celebrate my birthday with me (early), and to see the Louvre exhibit at the MIA. I should probably add "clean the house" to the list of things I need to do today. Oh, but that reminds me. I need to pick up a cheese pizza for Mason and Shawn. They're going to have a movie night in my absence.
Well, I should go do something constructive... or start on my to-do list!
First of all, it's always recycling. It's also fish tank changing day. Thursday is the day that I volunteer to stuff folders at Mason's school, as well. Tonight is Wyrdsmiths, which means that soon I need to go home find the handouts from last week, read and critique them, AND print out what I'm going to hand out tonight. By chance this evening is also a meeting for parents, etc., of gifted students and I agreed to go to that since it's downtown and they're going to provide my dinner (and it gets done before Wyrdsmiths starts).
Did I mention busy?
Oy.
Even so, I managed to finish Scott Westerfeld's SO YESTERDAY, which I enjoyed. The hero is a teenager named Hunter whose job it is to spot trends, sniff out cool just before it hits the mainstream. His love interest is a girl named Jen who is an Innovator, someone who invents cool just before it hits mainstream, but, consequentially, is also a bit odd and out of step in her own way. They get caught up in a mystery involving shoes. (Seriously.)
I'd really wanted to read Westerfeld's UGLY/PRETTIES series, but my library only had one that seemed to be far along in the series. SO YESTERDAY was the only one of his that they had that was self-contained. As I mentioned before I was actually a fan of Westerfeld's and didn't know it. I read both the short story and what eventually became the novel EVOLUTION'S DARLING, which I found weird, but compelling. Westerfeld has some kind of funky writing juju, I think. I suspect he shouldn't be as popular as he is, but his narrative tone/voice is strangely compelling. I wish I could figure out how to harvest that, and make it work for me.
Shawn and I also watched "My Life in Ruins" a chick-flick about a 40-something woman who works as a tour guide in Greece who finds true love with a scruffy bus driver named "Poopy." (Seriously.)
Say what you will, but I tend to really enjoy feel good movies where people find love. One thing I've learned about myself is that I'm not terribly discriminating about what I want from a movie. I was a terrible movie reviewer when I did it for focusPOINT because I'm not all that critical of these kinds of sappy, formulaic films. I get wound up about my science fiction or my angel movies and I tend to find art films obtuse and irritating, but the Hollywood formula works for me. I like my action films to run like a big advertisement for the video game with a lot of explosions, and I want my romances to be sappy and predictable.
It's embarrassing, really. Shawn inevitably looks over at me and says, horrified, "Are you sniffling???"
I don't want to talk about it. I'm easy, okay?
My folks are coming up this weekend to celebrate my birthday with me (early), and to see the Louvre exhibit at the MIA. I should probably add "clean the house" to the list of things I need to do today. Oh, but that reminds me. I need to pick up a cheese pizza for Mason and Shawn. They're going to have a movie night in my absence.
Well, I should go do something constructive... or start on my to-do list!