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Life update
Thu, Dec. 22nd, 2011 02:24 pmAs in, I am still alive, even though posting has been rare.
I feel like I haven't read a single book since I started dating CB, partially due to adjusting my schedule to accommodate another person, partially due to his siccing online games on me, and partially due to all the life changes that followed dating him (familial drama, new job, etc.).
I picked up C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry because I wanted something incredibly pulpy with kickass women, and then was felled by a cold that continues to dig its nasty little claws into my throat. Instead, I've mostly been listening to audiobooks and podcasts, primarily before going to bed. I sped through all of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy during the cold, since my cough ends up keeping me up half the night (oh codeine, why aren't you working?!), and though I love the production and the girl who voices Lyra, it's interesting revisiting the world for the first time in maybe five years or so. I really feel like The Golden Compass started a series that I really wanted to read, only Pullman got further and further away from that world and Lyra as the trilogy went on, much to its detriment.
I also caved and actually paid for the This American Life iPhone app, but I figure it's a nice donation, particularly since it means about six years worth of backlog. (Also, I am already deeply fond of Poultry Slam.)
Oh, and CB is now trying to get me to play the new Star Wars MMORPG by promising I won't have to fight things too much, so that is probably even more time away from books.
I don't know... I'm hoping things will shake out a bit more once it's 2012 and I'm more settled into the new job, although that's when I start apartment hunting for somewhere that is a bit closer to work, and moving always wreaks havoc on my life.
But right now, it feels like 2011 has been a year of big changes, and I'm still getting used to a lot of them. At least it feels like it's finally winding down, and hopefully it will do so WITHOUT this nasty cold thing so I can have fun during vacation.
I feel like I haven't read a single book since I started dating CB, partially due to adjusting my schedule to accommodate another person, partially due to his siccing online games on me, and partially due to all the life changes that followed dating him (familial drama, new job, etc.).
I picked up C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry because I wanted something incredibly pulpy with kickass women, and then was felled by a cold that continues to dig its nasty little claws into my throat. Instead, I've mostly been listening to audiobooks and podcasts, primarily before going to bed. I sped through all of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy during the cold, since my cough ends up keeping me up half the night (oh codeine, why aren't you working?!), and though I love the production and the girl who voices Lyra, it's interesting revisiting the world for the first time in maybe five years or so. I really feel like The Golden Compass started a series that I really wanted to read, only Pullman got further and further away from that world and Lyra as the trilogy went on, much to its detriment.
I also caved and actually paid for the This American Life iPhone app, but I figure it's a nice donation, particularly since it means about six years worth of backlog. (Also, I am already deeply fond of Poultry Slam.)
Oh, and CB is now trying to get me to play the new Star Wars MMORPG by promising I won't have to fight things too much, so that is probably even more time away from books.
I don't know... I'm hoping things will shake out a bit more once it's 2012 and I'm more settled into the new job, although that's when I start apartment hunting for somewhere that is a bit closer to work, and moving always wreaks havoc on my life.
But right now, it feels like 2011 has been a year of big changes, and I'm still getting used to a lot of them. At least it feels like it's finally winding down, and hopefully it will do so WITHOUT this nasty cold thing so I can have fun during vacation.