30's a good number.

i have a 40 dollar target gift card i want to use up and some checks i need to cash.

the last thing i read was five or six pages of a farewell to arms then i just lay there for a while. the past few weeks have been a ferocious hunt for personal, quiet time (i failed miserably because of my family) so i'm just giving up on reading for a while until i can buy some new books and everything quiets down.

My reading list is thus:
1. Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
2. Tales of Beetle The Bard (lame, but I'm a HP dork somewhat)
3. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
(Good Omens by Terry Pritchard and some other guy if I can get a copy)
4. (5.) Lord of the Ring Trilogy,

that should round out the next few months.

I know. I still have about half of the question-answer stuff, too, which is getting to be a bit much. Like he's trying to use every word in the English language he hasn't already. I'm not looking forward to the black pages, though, at all.

Haha Hemingway has that effect.

The best reading for that kind of situation, I think, is something fast-paced. Like sci-fi or something. That's easier to get lost in when life is busy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide series might be the best for that. I read all them during the most hectic/miserable time of my life thus far.

The question/answer was a lot of gibberish. I'll have to read the whole book again in a year or so and keep a log of things I don't understand and look them up.

My list, in no particular order:

1. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
2. Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
3. Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
4. 7 Plays (Sam Shepard--really looking forward to that. I read one that I had to act in.)
5. Finish fucking Ulysses sometime before I die

pattern recognition is so good. it's very grey. even though a lot goes on, i found the book to be so calming.

i want to read a confederacy of dunces, the 800 pages of infinite jest i have left, and.. oh lordy. too many books.

hemingway lulls me.

i wish i could find my hitchikers books. they must have gotten lost during the move.

I really want to read the rest of Joyce's stuff, but Ulysses just about killed me and the thought of anymore Joyce turns my brain into a grayish goo.

I have a small box of packing peanuts! lulz to be had sometime in the future.

dubliners- specifically the two gallants story- is enjoyable. light for the most part.

i want some bubble wrap.

Every time I go the bookstore I pick up Dubliners and put it back. I must have done it a dozen times.

I remember why I was pissed at the bookstore now....I was going to buy Franny and Zooey to read, but they didn't have any copies and they usually have like 6.

I'm so glad to be back in my apartment. Took 3 overtime maintenance workers an hour and a half. And now, decisions decisions...

Crown with a fabric softener chaser.

Hahaha. Exactly what I was thinking.

I think you'll have to wrap the towel around your head Lawrence of Arabia style for the full effect.

I've actually never had Crown. The first of my Christmas money just went to it, and I had it out in the cold of my trunk while the door was getting fixed, cause I live on campus and they don't allow alcohol. It smells really good.

Don't you feed me lies about some idealistic future.
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures.

Dry campuses are the pits. I lugged my liter bottle of the good Captain across campus in a messenger bag at about 11pm a few nights before I left. The SGA just purposed legislation to make the campus at least partially "wet", which I'm totally for.

I'm not too worried about it. I'm 21 and they're mostly concerned about underage drinking, but I'm sure they'd tell my parents or suggest I see a councilor or some shit. But more importantly, they'd confiscate my whiskey.

That's fucking bullshit.

having a dry night tonight is a little refreshing.

The Crown is a little too smooth. I can tell I'm going to drink it too fast.

Dry nights are for parents and athletes. Boo.