Post-apocalypse Saturday

[oyceter]

I spent most of today obsessively playing sudoku (it's a little scary that I've already gone through all of 9/05) and then reading Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It in a freezing cold Peet's while having a frozen Scharffen Berger mocha.

By the time I was halfway through, I was convinced that I was freezing because volcanoes had erupted and the temperature of the Earth had dropped, that I had to save food, and that I had to watch out for strangers trying to take stuff meant for my family or rats. Afterward, I walked to Borders in a daze and then read vols. 1-4 of After School Nightmare, which is not post-apocalyptic, but is very, very strange. Very strange.

And now I have Children of Men from Blockbuster, and I will watch it now! I just finished the Pfeffer, and most of my brain right now wants to hug my computer and electricity and frozen food and the fact that I have a car with gas! I'm sure watching the movie will further convince me that the world is going to end tomorrow.

I think I'll have interesting dreams tonight...

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Although I am worried that it will end up making some point that I totally disagree with on a political level, as I can't tell at all what the author thinks about the HORRIBLE, STIFLING, AND EVIL gender roles on display.
I also am worried, because I also can't tell whether the author's going to uphold or subvert the awful gender stuff.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It keeps dodging bullets, though-- I keep looking at the situations and going, okay, the only way out of this is something that will make me have to stop reading this series, and then there's some other way out of it. Which leaves me hopeful, because it just keeps managing to walk a very, very thin line.