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Please remind me to kill myself the next time I agree to do overtime.
After six days, I can enjoy a weekend. And enjoy it I shall. I woke up, watched the Oscars (very mediocre, with the exception of Allen's appearance), went back to bed, napped for a little, got up again, checked email, did the crosswords, and now I'll update a bit before I lie down, watch Adult Swim, read, and do whatever I wish so long as it doesn't involve work of any kind.
It's been quiet from the Personals. I sent an email back ot Jackie O. on Saturday, but haven't gotten a response back. Not shocking, really, many people lose email access on the weekends (WOO! WEEKEND! Sorry.). But I haven't heard back from Harmony since I mailed her nearly a week ago. I also have yet to get a response from I. at eharmony, but her correspondence has often had delays. I think I'll send a "where are you?" message to Harmony and see if anyone's still alive over there.
As I've mentioned before, I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I'll often discover, when reading a book, that I am so hungry to find out what happens next that I don't want to put the book down. These books tend to be furious reads, plots points and peripeteia whizzing by, page after page. Kavalier and Clay is nothing like this, and I don't have the same "I wonder what happens next, I better find out" feeling. Instead, the book is so marvelously paced that whenever I put the book down, I am convinced that the story is continuing on without me, like a movie during an unexpected bathroom break. Instead of going to bed anxious that I'll have to wait eight hours before learning how Dapper Dan escapes from Malodorous Markham, I am going to bed worried that during the eight hours that both the book and I lay dormant, I'll miss something important that I won't be able to read afterward.
Further, Chabon wins the prize for best usage of the word "susurrant." I knew this word before, but when I read it in Kavalier and Clay, I suddenly felt and smelled it. Yay Reading!
It's a good thing I have a weekend today, because this is going to be a big week. It's Holy Week in the Catholic Church, and my family and I have been chosen to have our feet washed during Holy Thursday Mass. Then, at the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, I'm reading from the book of Genesis. Big stuff, creation of the entire world and all. At the same mass, a friend of the family will be baptized into the Faith. Also on Holy Saturday is the NPL Puzzle Party, to which I must bring a dessert (for the potlucking) and to which I still wish to bring a puzzle. The puzzle/game I brought last time was a hit, and I don't want to be considered a flash in the pan. Maybe Easter will inspire me. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if our host isn't planning some sort of puzzle-based egg hunt.
I've been having very strange dreams lately, yet been unable to remember them. One on Friday involved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ifmud's Emily in an interesting, yet slightly disturbing, way, of which the only memory I have is the mental note to tell Emily about this interesting thing. It probably involved cheese. Last night, I dreamt that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
veek and storme had created a LiveJournal community called "PiratesArrr" which they encouraged me to join, saying that it disguised an important secret message. I was unable to discover it before I awakened.
And now I'm getting tired again. I'd better lie down. Mmmmmm....lying down.
P.S. Phew! Almost lost the whole of this post. I've gotta remember to compose in another window so as not to lose paragraphs to internal server errors.
After six days, I can enjoy a weekend. And enjoy it I shall. I woke up, watched the Oscars (very mediocre, with the exception of Allen's appearance), went back to bed, napped for a little, got up again, checked email, did the crosswords, and now I'll update a bit before I lie down, watch Adult Swim, read, and do whatever I wish so long as it doesn't involve work of any kind.
It's been quiet from the Personals. I sent an email back ot Jackie O. on Saturday, but haven't gotten a response back. Not shocking, really, many people lose email access on the weekends (WOO! WEEKEND! Sorry.). But I haven't heard back from Harmony since I mailed her nearly a week ago. I also have yet to get a response from I. at eharmony, but her correspondence has often had delays. I think I'll send a "where are you?" message to Harmony and see if anyone's still alive over there.
As I've mentioned before, I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I'll often discover, when reading a book, that I am so hungry to find out what happens next that I don't want to put the book down. These books tend to be furious reads, plots points and peripeteia whizzing by, page after page. Kavalier and Clay is nothing like this, and I don't have the same "I wonder what happens next, I better find out" feeling. Instead, the book is so marvelously paced that whenever I put the book down, I am convinced that the story is continuing on without me, like a movie during an unexpected bathroom break. Instead of going to bed anxious that I'll have to wait eight hours before learning how Dapper Dan escapes from Malodorous Markham, I am going to bed worried that during the eight hours that both the book and I lay dormant, I'll miss something important that I won't be able to read afterward.
Further, Chabon wins the prize for best usage of the word "susurrant." I knew this word before, but when I read it in Kavalier and Clay, I suddenly felt and smelled it. Yay Reading!
It's a good thing I have a weekend today, because this is going to be a big week. It's Holy Week in the Catholic Church, and my family and I have been chosen to have our feet washed during Holy Thursday Mass. Then, at the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, I'm reading from the book of Genesis. Big stuff, creation of the entire world and all. At the same mass, a friend of the family will be baptized into the Faith. Also on Holy Saturday is the NPL Puzzle Party, to which I must bring a dessert (for the potlucking) and to which I still wish to bring a puzzle. The puzzle/game I brought last time was a hit, and I don't want to be considered a flash in the pan. Maybe Easter will inspire me. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if our host isn't planning some sort of puzzle-based egg hunt.
I've been having very strange dreams lately, yet been unable to remember them. One on Friday involved
ifmud's Emily in an interesting, yet slightly disturbing, way, of which the only memory I have is the mental note to tell Emily about this interesting thing. It probably involved cheese. Last night, I dreamt that veek and storme had created a LiveJournal community called "PiratesArrr" which they encouraged me to join, saying that it disguised an important secret message. I was unable to discover it before I awakened.And now I'm getting tired again. I'd better lie down. Mmmmmm....lying down.
P.S. Phew! Almost lost the whole of this post. I've gotta remember to compose in another window so as not to lose paragraphs to internal server errors.
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