new books!

I didn’t mean to be gone for so long. At first I was busy and then writing kind of fell from my mind. Sorry, shame on me.

I had a pretty nice three day weekend. I think all weekends should be three days. I feel like I have time to get everything done AND relax. Then there are the benefits of having four day weeks, less commuting, power saving, etc. I think shorter weeks would also make it easier for people to have multiple jobs or work on their own business on the weekend.

Friday Dylan and I went over to Evan’s to see his new place. He finally moved off campus and is renting a room in a house. He needed to get off campus; he spends too much time working with SGA. Two girls moved in as well, I hope they do some decorating or something, because right it has that ‘guy’s’ place feel. We had fun though, ate pizza, played Munchkin, and drank hard lemonades. Maybe a little too much fun. I didn’t wake up Saturday until after 11am. We were good Saturday and cleaned the apartment. And then we played again. This time we had a few friends over here. The boys played Super Smash Bros. The girls chatted. I needed to do some catch up with Cassie. She went home to MA all summer. Not fun, but doesn’t matter anymore cause she’s back!

My favorite day was probably Sunday. We slept in again, though not as late. I made breakfast and we surfed the morning net. Then shopping! I am normally not a big shopper. I get annoyed at things, tired of the hustle and bustle, but I also usually have to be pretty careful about how much money I spend. The wallet clamp was feeling looser this weekend, though I spent enough to put it back on. I spent it on good things! The Linens-n-Things not to far from here is closing, so everything is marked down. I bought some new bath towels, bathmat, silverware, vacuum pack bags, and some little things. None of it was must have, but it was kind of needed.

Then we went over to Borders. I love books. If I could I would build my own library and live there (probably). I was very excited though because last summer two books that I wanted came out in hardback and now they have finally come out in paperback. The first is: Thursday Next, First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde. Thursday works for Jurisfiction, policing inside novels. I discovered the first of the series 2-3 straight years ago and was able to read through them, but then ran out of material. (Which led me into the Sookie Stackhouse series, but I have to talk about that in another post.) The second book is: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. It is the second in a trilogy (a magic number for some reason). It is a Big Brother sort of story with some spiritual/philosophy stuff. Reviews should not be too far off.