Nope. It ate the japanese, even after I changed the font. Oh well.

Hrm. The little IME thing popped up.

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A long weekend, finally.

Happy: Ice cream sundae after work. Mmm. And of course it was the only thing I’d had all day besides the donut this morning. Such healthy eating habits. The person who won my tapes auction paid me already. My paycheck was deposited and I have several hundred dollars worth of checks to send in also.

To do this weekend:
Study Japanese
Rearrange bookshelves
Get the broken screw out of the front of the car
Get a new screw so we can put the license plate on
CLEAN
organize the SAS stuff and print it out (so get the printer working)
put up more ebay auctions
pay bills
rent car
webpage foo

So it doesn’t look like the list has changed much since Tuesday. Bah. I thought I’d have knocked off more than that, though I guess that’s not likely during the week. My book didn’t come yet, but… wait. Okina said earlier I had a package and I didn’t open it. ^_^;;;;;;;;;

I’ve been rereading the Vorkosigan books, and I’m more and more convinced that -something- is going on between Gregor and Henri Vorvolk. They’re just way too cute together.

I wish she’d write another book with someone else as the main POV instead of Miles. Ivan or Gregor, preferably.

I’m now officially signed up for the Japanese class at Harvard. So we’ll see if that one is any better than BLI was.

Accomplished today so far:
got up for work (yes, this is an accomplishment)
SAS minutes (it’s soooo good to have them mostly done)
um.. nothing else

But I feel like I did something anyway. I’ll get the car later tonight so that will be another big thing.

Things to do:
Get the car
SAS stuff (why have I still not done this?)
study Japanese
organize bookshelves
finish TB page
finish HS page
put up more ebay auctions
pay bills
rent car
sign up for Japanese class
update wf.com
new layout for fg.com

Blah.

So I’m out of books again. This is bad, since I bought 3 on Friday and got another in the mail on Saturday. Of course, 2 were Nancy Drew, so they don’t really count.

The story behind the Nancy Drews:
The Nancy Drew books (and the Hardy Boys, and the Bobbsey Twins, etc) were first written in the 1930s or earlier. They were longer, and reflected the era in which they were written. When they were reissued for the Boomer girls, starting in about 1959, times had changed. The books were all ‘updated’, and anything objectionable was removed. I’ve read parts of the older versions before (they were published by the Stratmeyer Syndicate, and the chick who ran it was an alum) at college, but never an entire book. But it turns out they’ve been republishing the old versions, objectionable parts intact, so I decided to get a copy of #1 in both forms.

After reading both of them, I can’t say which was really better. My instinct tells me that the revision was, on some level, an attempt at censorship — Nancy was aged 2 years, the violence was watered down, references to alcohol and black people were purged. But without the revision, the books might have disappeared altogether, since I have to admit, they are rather more ‘timeless’ in their hacked up state. (Not entirely, but aside from a few anachronisms, the adventures could be taking place as easily today as in the 30s) I DO like the Nancy of the earlier books better. No longer is she the discreet, polite, non-gossipy Nancy; instead, she’s a snobby bitch. One can’t ‘admire’ her as much as one can the updated Nancy, but at least she has some faults! (Not that she’s the least bit aware of them as faults. ^^)

The other main book I read was Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest, _The Curse of Chalion_. It was good. I’m not sure if I liked it as much as the Miles books, and I thought the world was a little.. uneven. At first it seemed like women were really oppressed, but in the last third of the book something happened which puzzled me, because it didn’t quite fit with that picture. But other than that it was good, and I liked the main heroine, Iselle, because her name was very similar to an old character of mine, Iscelle, and she behaved a little like Iscelle’s granddaughter. ^_^ I would definitely buy another book set in the same universe. There were plenty of random little slashy bits in it (which actually makes me wish she’d write a prequel rather than a sequel…) which are typical of her Vorkosigan books too. I have heard she’s going to write at least one other book in this world, so I look forward to it. But she better write another Miles first! Or even better, another Ethan!

In any case, being out of books should be rectified by the end of the week, because my book from amazon is finally going to ship! My status page says it will! Honest! It’s only taken them a month to get it in. -_-

Happy: certain people I stalk have put their pages up again, my IRS “rebate” came, someone bid on my ebay auction
Eh: still have to do a ton of work on SAS stuff, because I blew it off this weekend

While poking around in Best Buy (looking for the St Tail DVD… which they didn’t have. And neither did Suncoast. Sigh.) I remembered a sign I saw a couple of weeks ago at Six Flags:

Star Wars Jedi Knights
Get some here.

…

In other news, a new book! Hurrah! Lois McMasters Bujold’s latest isn’t a Miles book (another sigh), but it promises to be interesting nevertheless. So far my
2001 book list is a little light on real literature.. it’s just I can’t afford any. Non fiction is DAMN expensive. I need to find out where the local library is.

Argh! This ISP needs to die a painful death, and then be reasurrected so I can torture it.

After playing with the tables I’ve decided I just need to redo the image. So that will have to wait until tonight.