Timing

I'm still only about half way through The Darkest Road, and I need to pick up the book at the library by Saturday. And go to class, read for class, prep a paper, get ready to help host a student conference, and see a friend who's in from out of town. Yeesh.

We also have to register for classes in a few weeks, and I'm still waiting to see if I get a stipend for the summer for doing public interest work. If not, I'm going to have to get a job so I can make some money, on top of my real legal job. And create a public interest directory and possibly volunteer for another organization... Thank god this is all stuff I want to do (with the possible exception of getting a part-time paying job). And keep reading and try to finally finish a story I start. And breathe.

I am so ready for summer. This week we are getting a hit of it, sunny and highs in the high 60s - low 70s :) I'm starting to think I'm solar powered - which makes it a little odd that HB and I are thinking of moving to Seattle after graduation. And by thinking, I mean we REALLY want to. It's a great town. The job market sucks, but at least apartments are cheaper! Timing is everything...

Will power

The new Kim Harrison Book, Black Magic Sanction, is ready for me to pick up at the library :) I'm about half way through The Darkest Road, and I need to finish this week, since the library will only hold the new book until the 3rd. (How is it almost April???)

More reading this morning, then off to help with another epic food night with JBH and HB. I think there will be around 10 of us tonight. I'll have to try not to overindulge...but it's hard when the indulgence is so delicious! Empenadas and margaritas and pina coladas, oh my!

In other news, it's raining, and I don't like this. But highs in the 70s are predicted next week, and I'm starting to believe it's almost real spring!!

40% off coupon at Borders extended through today. I don't really NEED anything, but it would be 40% off!! I'm such a sucker. And I do love buying books, and bookstores generally. Bookstores are to me what Tiffany's was to Holly Golightly. If I can refrain from buying a book and having several too many of anything at dinner, I will bow in awe to my own will power. If...

Book 5

Finished The Wandering Fire and immediately started on The Darkest Road (Finovavar Book 3), which arrived from amazon just in time. In the same shipment was the Griffin AirCurve Amplifier for iPhone, which works like a charm. It's nice to see that, with all the stunning technological advances of the last century, we have finally come full circle back to the gramophone.

I'm still loving the Fionavar trilogy, and the major Arthurian tie-in seems to work. I was a little worried at first: "After such a great start in The Summer Tree, please don't turn this into King Arthur fanfic! Please!" Oh me of little faith. Book 2 was great, and book 3 so far is, too - though I'm only about 50 pages in so far.

I was going to go right in to more Kay after Finonavar, but I think something different, as a breather from the intense awesome, is called for. Sort of the opposite of a palate "cleanser." Maybe one of the detective novels that is on the list, something like that. I'm 3rd in line for the new Kim Harrison book from the library, too. That would be good. Read faster, people ahead of me in line! Read faster!

New Books

I bought The Hours and A Song for Arbonne at Elliot Bay Books today. The used books were pretty picked over, so I just went for retail. I really just wanted to buys SOMETHING because it was 80% off, but then I realized that that would be kinda stupid...

I'm still working on The Wandering Fire and will probably rely on amazon for the last book in that trilogy. Arbonne is also by Kay, and may be next after Fionavar, unless I need a break from high fantasy. I was going to buy A Game of Thrones since HBO is making a series out of the book, but a friend of mine owns it, so I'll just pillage her library.

Long trip home Sunday, so I'll get a bunch of reading done, though that will mean that break is over. Good thing I only have one class on Mondays!

Delay

Well, the Elliot Bay trip got postponed due to icky weatherness. But that led to shopping with my mom, so it's not too tragic. Tomorrow!

Also: A list of things I have not read and am not reading now:
Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law (it's part of the Summa Theologica you know)
Ginormous excerpt from something else about "law" that is really too long to be called an "excerpt." It's a work in its own right. I don't even want to see the book it came from. You would think that law school would have cured me of a fear of big books, but you would be wrong.

Student fail. But it's spring break, damn it! ;)

Morning

I work up early and thought about going back to sleep, but then I realized if I had some coffee, I could just stay up and read! (Of course, now I'm blogging instead...)

Today is going to be a booky day, because this afternoon I have big plans to go to Elliot Bay Books, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere. They're moving at the end of the month, so I'm hoping to find some good "clear it out so we don't have to pack it!" sales :) http://www.elliottbaybook.com/

The other big wonderful news is that I got a MacBook! iHappy :D I went to turn on my old PC and it flipped me off and refused to function. Nice. So on to the Apple Store! It's like a shiny white promised land, and my pretty white MacBook is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. They tell me that in a few years, IT WILL STILL WORK! Golly!

I hope the legions of people who read my blog are all having lovely days, too!

BREAK!

Oh, spring break, how I love you.

I'm visiting my parents for the week, and my sister is here for a long weekend. Lovely.

I finished The Summer Tree on the flight out here and moved right on to The Wandering Fire. I still like it, though I have some hesitation about how the second book started... But I think it will be OK. I still like the language and the epic, high fantasy tone. Yay for book four! I'm really going to have to pick up the pace come summer, though, if I have any hope of completing this project. 48 to go!

I woke up a little cranky this morning, because I did not wish to be conscious. My parents and sister went to breakfast, and after two cups of coffee, I am feeling much more human. Caffeine!! No idea what we're doing today, except watching the Oscars this afternoon. Pacific time, so they start at 4pm or something crazy like that - but at least it will be over at a reasonable hour. I'm not rooting for Avatar for anything but technical awards, which is the only area in which I think it excelled. Still haven't seen Up but really want to. District 9 was great. I hope the Academy makes the right choices (i.e. agrees with me!).

Readings

I am supposed to be reading Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, so of course I'm reading The Summer Tree. If only reading of any kind counted for credit. And now, of course, I'm blogging instead of doing my school work. 5 more minutes...

Also, how is it MARCH? Seriously, how did that happen??