Miscellany

[owlectomy]

- Cracked the screen of my Kindle. It just ... slipped out of my hands as I was waiting for my bus. (I am very annoyed. This would not have happened if my bus had not been 20 minutes late.) They want $85 to replace it. (Yup, I've seen stories of the company replacing them for free. That will not be happening.) I think I am going to rationalize it just because my commute is that annoying and my Kindle makes it that much better.

+ I had a Complicated Situation involving a long-awaited family vacation that could only be scheduled by me going straight to the airport from work Saturday (which I could not rearrange, because it's Yom Kippur, and lots of people are not available to work). This was put in jeopardy by my transfer and the potential rearrangement of Saturday schedules! But now I think it has been resolved.

+ The library got a new photocopier after ours being broken for MONTHS.

+ I am not caring about reading YA books! It is a bit liberating. Recently read: Megan Abbott, The End of Everything (so good! Also, saved Queenpin from the discard pile so I have that to read even without my Kindle); Fritz Lieber, Conjure Wife (hi 1950s attitudes about race and gender! Still, half points for not being as bad as Faulkner!).

+ I am getting a voucher from my union for new glasses and an eye exam! Still ridiculously expensive because I get the extra-light lenses. But, new glasses!

Comments

[laughingrat]

That's really crappy about your Kindle. I'd be pretty pissed if my Nook got b0rked. :(

Can I squee about Moto Hagio to you? Because you are a manga person! I think?

[owlectomy]

I am a manga person! Furthermore, Moto Hagio, heck yeah! I normally don't read Japanese manga in English, because I'm just going to whine about how I would've done the translation differently, but I might buy A Drunken Dream to encourage them and also because I'm not enough of a collector to be able to track down those stories in the original. But I've read a few of hers and she's just remarkable. Marginal starts out looking like weird post-apocalyptic proto-Boys-Love, and then it turns into hard science fiction with all this strangeness about genetics and psychology. Heck, the only reason I haven't finished it is that my Japanese can't cope with all that science.

So, yeah. Moto Hagio squeeing always welcome here.