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Yay! Sarah came over to California because one of her brothers is getting married in Monterey. The boy and I drove up to Davis today to go see her and her family. Went bowling and played some air hockey, and generally got a chance to sit around and talk to people who aren't the boy. Not that the boy isn't nice to talk to, but the feeling of being in a bubble of just the two of us has been vaguely frightening. I don't want to be one of those couples that doesn't have an outside life.
My absence from LJ is still sort of continuing. There's the job, which is going all right now that I'm not just shelving all the time, then I come home, cook, watch some TV with the boy and go to bed to prepare for the next day. In a way, I really hate that I have no personal time, but I do realize that I have personal time. This is truly much better than get home at 2 in the morning, debate between reading time or internet time for myself versus "extra" hours of sleep. I think the split weekend thing seems to lessen my time because anytime we want to do a weekend activity, we have to do it on Sundays, because my days off don't match with the boy's. Next Sunday is the Ren Fair, for which I plan to spend lots of money on pretty things.
Still working my way through Otherland... got to book two, two more to go. They are giant books! I'd probably be going through them a day or two at a time if I had nothing to do all day, but reading it in bits and pieces right before bed tends to stretch out the book. So I haven't yet gotten to Doomsday Book or the rest of Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis series =(. Then there are the half a million books I picked up at the library book sale... is it sad that I found most of my books at the kids' section? The scifi/fantasy was pretty well weeded out, ditto for romance (though I got a Nora Roberts hardcover, oooo), so I hit the motherload with the children's books. Found books I loved or read as a kid, like My Side of the Mountain and Witch of Blackberry Pond, picked up a few of Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series, and other random books like Name of the Rose and Thorn Birds that I keep hearing but haven't gotten around to picking up. At three dollars for a bag of books, I was just grabbing anything that remotely caught my interest. Guh. I'm rolling around in a wealth of books right now, and it frustrates me that I don't have the time to read them all! It was never like this before -- in Taiwan, there was a general lack of English books, so I would read anything I could get my hands on and borrow things from friends, but in the end, the number was finite. So I reread a lot of my library frequently. I don't mind doing it.. it's like going back to revisit old friends every so often. In Princeton, there was more access, but since it was difficult getting a car for a trip out of the university, I couldn't go to the library or the bookstore that often. Plus, the used bookstore down the street closed down senior year... Here, I work in a bookstore and see tons of things I want to at least flip through, one library is within walking distance from work, I am in walking distance to another bookstore and within driving distance to yet another library. I love it. But I haven't been rereading much =(. I wonder if my rabid bookbuying and book borrowing will eventually slow down, or if this has just unleashed a monster ;).
My absence from LJ is still sort of continuing. There's the job, which is going all right now that I'm not just shelving all the time, then I come home, cook, watch some TV with the boy and go to bed to prepare for the next day. In a way, I really hate that I have no personal time, but I do realize that I have personal time. This is truly much better than get home at 2 in the morning, debate between reading time or internet time for myself versus "extra" hours of sleep. I think the split weekend thing seems to lessen my time because anytime we want to do a weekend activity, we have to do it on Sundays, because my days off don't match with the boy's. Next Sunday is the Ren Fair, for which I plan to spend lots of money on pretty things.
Still working my way through Otherland... got to book two, two more to go. They are giant books! I'd probably be going through them a day or two at a time if I had nothing to do all day, but reading it in bits and pieces right before bed tends to stretch out the book. So I haven't yet gotten to Doomsday Book or the rest of Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis series =(. Then there are the half a million books I picked up at the library book sale... is it sad that I found most of my books at the kids' section? The scifi/fantasy was pretty well weeded out, ditto for romance (though I got a Nora Roberts hardcover, oooo), so I hit the motherload with the children's books. Found books I loved or read as a kid, like My Side of the Mountain and Witch of Blackberry Pond, picked up a few of Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series, and other random books like Name of the Rose and Thorn Birds that I keep hearing but haven't gotten around to picking up. At three dollars for a bag of books, I was just grabbing anything that remotely caught my interest. Guh. I'm rolling around in a wealth of books right now, and it frustrates me that I don't have the time to read them all! It was never like this before -- in Taiwan, there was a general lack of English books, so I would read anything I could get my hands on and borrow things from friends, but in the end, the number was finite. So I reread a lot of my library frequently. I don't mind doing it.. it's like going back to revisit old friends every so often. In Princeton, there was more access, but since it was difficult getting a car for a trip out of the university, I couldn't go to the library or the bookstore that often. Plus, the used bookstore down the street closed down senior year... Here, I work in a bookstore and see tons of things I want to at least flip through, one library is within walking distance from work, I am in walking distance to another bookstore and within driving distance to yet another library. I love it. But I haven't been rereading much =(. I wonder if my rabid bookbuying and book borrowing will eventually slow down, or if this has just unleashed a monster ;).
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I know, that helped, huh? :)
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(btw, what's iirc?)
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And, hey, not to bug...but wanted to make sure the box made it to you. I'd hate to think your DVDs are still floating out there!
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