Day in the Life of an Idiot

 I'd ask what the heck happened to this week, but I know the answer. I've still been head-down over my novel. I can report that I'm actually enjoying revisions somehow? It's very strange, but I'm rolling with it.

Today was an interrupted day, however, because Shawn stayed home with a migraine. The nice part of that was that we were able to have lunch together (I made her a thing she loves called "cheesy goodness" and I made myself falafel because we had extra tzatziki sauce around.) Afterwards, she came with me as I walked around my little patch of Como, picking up garbage. We pretended we were in a murder mystery and so she walked my area like a grid and then put her hand up and pointed whenever she found a bit of garbage, like they always do when CSI team is sweeping an area for clues. It was silly, but it passed the time. I picked up a ridiculous amount of garbage considering how small an area I patrol. There was a big branch down in my area, too, which I emailed the volunteer coordinator about. We had a lot of crazy wind last night here in St. Paul. I was a little surprised there were not more branches down, honestly.

I have been doing some reading, and since today is "What Are You Reading? Wednesday," I will list them out:

• Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! by Itsuki Kuro
• Neko no Massageya-san / Cat Massage Therapy by Hisakawa Haru
• Hate no Shoutsuushin / Correspondence from the End of the Universe by Menota
• Hikari no Hako / Box of Light by Erisawa Seiko

Of these, I have to say that the one I would most recommend is Correspondence from the End of the Universe. It is deeply weird, but very compelling. I'm not sure I can describe it very well, but, in a nutshell, it's about a recent college graduate from Russia who gets abducted by aliens and conscripted to work in a laboratory that makes stars and planets for an absentee God. Yeah, you were fine right until that last bit, right? SAME, friend, SAME. And I kind of hate that, because if you can get beyond the wacky premise the story is quite good. When he's not trying to escape back to Earth and a fiancée of indeterminate gender,  Marko, our Russian abductee, is very kind-hearted in the way of many shounen heroes (though be warned this is josei, not shounen,) and ends up adopting a little alien child who lost a twin in a freak accident. The core of their relationship is heartwarming in a "is it dusty in here??" kind of way. Anyway, I enjoyed that one a lot. I picked up volume one at the HarMar Barnes & Noble. 

Actually, you can get all four of these books there. I only ended up buying Correspondence... and Box of Light when I was there, but I took pictures of the covers of the other two and hunted up... let's just say.... alternate ways of reading them. 

Anyway, that's all from me right now. What have you been up to since we last chatted?