Month: July 2006

M theory blows my mind. All these hard scientists talking about other dimensions like they might really exist. But all of it still physics so my mind just can’t understand it. It makes me cry in frustration and wonder.

Or better yet, writing friends on a postcard: “Having a great time. Glad you aren’t here!”

Amusement for all involved!

Let me tell you about my life day. My Mum and Dad and I went to dinner at my sister’s restaurant. She doesn’t run the place or anything, just works there. We even call it “Bonnie’s Restaurant” even though that’s not the real name. I had the salad bar and soup option, which is, in actual fact, much like having a meal of side dishes. I also shared some of Dad’s fries, thus encouraging the aforementioned theory. I also had juice from the machine, because there’s a machine there that makes orange juice and iced tea.

As a consequence of my dining out, I missed Coronation St, which makes two I missed this week. And no use telling me I just should have taped them because I just plum forgot!

p.s. I got to that cereal eating part in my book and it just didn’t pack the same punch as the first time I read it. It’s still funny as all heck though. Not funny so I’m laughing, but funny so I’m saying to myself “Golly, that’s funny.” You know. Funny-so-I’m-laughing is usally accompanied by exclamation marks!

“That was the dumbest sneeze ever!”
–Lindsie

I would like to compare the book I am currently reading (“Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson) with the last book I read (“Last Orders” by ___________).

a) Both are in multi-person perspective. “Cryto…” is in third person, while “Last Orders” is in first. “Crypto…” isn’t stream-of-thoughty, like “Last Orders” was, which is good because that gets perplexing after a while.

b) All, except one, perspective is male. The female voice in in “Last Orders”…. Wait, there’s two female voices in “Last Orders”. Please disregard point b).

c) Both have some dealings with World War 2. In “Last Orders”, the characters are remembering back. In “Crypto…” the characters are dealing with it in their present.

I’m stretching here a little. I haven’t finished “Crypto…” yet though. It’s long. I like it better than “Last Orders” because sometimes there are exclamation marks!

(I may have written about this book before,since I was reather enthtralled with it the first time I read it. I’ll have a look…)

(Edit 3 minutes later: nope, I lied about that last part. But if anyone talked to me around that time (Spring 03) I probably told you to read it.)

(15 minutes later after fining a snack and almost getting to bed…)Wrong AGAIN! This entry is from Spring 2004 and talks about the very book I am rereading currently– I think:

*Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Now, to relate my itinerary, I’m going to read my book. Book which took 2 pages to describe this: he took a box of cereal from the cupboard, opened it and ate it. It’s interesting how siad book relates this lovinly in the third person and we know how the protag loves his cereal, but when we get a first person pov, when cereal is stolen it doesn’t seem important. Protagonist is not good at expressing emotion.

All this and it’s “just” science fiction. I mean math fiction.

(2 minutes later)
Here’s another bit I found. It’s more about another book by Mr. Stephenson, but hey! I started mentioning titles just for the ease of posterity!

*Thursday, June 10, 2004

Also, I renewed my book today which I didn’t think I could do cause it’s one of those “high demand books” but I went to the website and could renew it anyway. Am happy cause it’s finally getting good (Vagabond) and I still have 300 pages to go. Taking be abnormally long to read it, but the pages are big and the type is small. I calcualted 20 pages an hour. It’s so thick and heavy. It’s called “Quicksilver” and it’s by Neal Stepanson and y’all should read it: if you like thick books like I do that have Eurpean history and pirates and science in them. “Science fiction”. I was talking about this before, though that was maybe with the other “Cryponomicon” which is the same author and I also liked.

As you can see, I liked it then too! Just as I said!

I was going to write something swashbuckling here but I have to go now because my Dad just brought me stuff he found at the garage sale:

1)big bag o’ yarns and knitting needles.
2)big bag of some weaving craft
3)2 sewing kits for 10 cents each.

This is page eleven from my recent reading adventure. And what an adventure it is. I understood everything up to the wierd “3” thing.

I recently started going to the library again. The first book I got to read, “Still Life With June” by Someone, featured a supporting character named June who had Down’s Syndrome and was in an institution. Good book. Annoying clever ending. Anyway.

The second book I chose, “Last Orders” by Graham Swift, also features a supporting character named June who is in an institution because, at the age of 27, she has the brain of a two-year-old.

Both characters were born in June and that’s why they were named June.

(When I was 13 or 14, any book I picked out of the young adult section at the library was about the Haulocaust. Some were obvious, like Anne Frank, but sometimes I’g get home and start reading and be “Oh shoot, not another one”.)

Wal-Mart is great. Everything you need under one fluorescent-lined ceiling. Need underwear? Here you go! Need a job? Just drop of your resume.

Yay!

This is my favorite chapter from a book. It’s page 79 from my copy of “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner. In context, it makes sense.

This is from “Last Orders” by Graham Swift, a book I’m currently reading that is quite similar the above book. I like to because I don’t know how to read it: is it sarcasitc or mean? and there are no clues around it to let me know.

I like when chapters are short.