tristane

I am the same way about reading books in order as far as series are concerned, the thing that really peaves me off is when I will read a book and get into it decently far, and realize that it is number two or three in a series, but I can't not finish it, I mean I started it I have to finish it, so then I am all out of sorts.

I plodded my way through the Potter books when the last one came out, and was enjoying re-reading them at a reasonable pace, but then suddenly I was starting number 5 when 7 hit my mailbox, so then I had to try to get through 5 and 6 as fast as I could to see what happened in 7, so they weren't as enjoyable because of that.

When I get like that I do feel guilty, like I am not doing what the writer would want me to do, but in actuality I am because I am reading it in the first place, I just wish I would think more when reading, instead of a couple weeks later when something astounding hits me from the book that I read four books ago, but alas I probably won't be changing that any time soon.

It sounds a lot cooler than it is. In reality you wake up very early to drive a long way to a large building where you sit in a chair in a big room with nothing to do for several hours. Then they let you go get lunch. Then maybe a few hours later they'll call your group and you will actually go to the court room and begin to hear about the case. Either that or they'll say "We don't need you anymore, you can go" and you're left with a wasted day.

If you go to the court room, you listen to the details of the case (the last one I remember was a college suing and employee because he broke a telescope lens) and they go through each of the jurors and ask questions. After that, they tell about half the jurors that they can leave and the other half that they'll be on the jury. That's as far as I've gone. Essentially, it's a really boring way to waste a day without making any money or learning anything.

Do I? I never really know what to do with these social networking site things. I like the comment feature, though. It's sort of nice for the person just to be able to say what they're up to and I can comment on it or not, and vice versa. It seems to make more sense than sending an email or private message to the person saying "Here's a bunch of stuff that may or may not interest you, but I thought I would specifically alert you about it anyway."

I happened to look at Cork on Wikipedia a while ago, to see where it is in relation to Dublin. I noticed that it's listed as the second largest city in Ireland with a population of.... 274,000. Scottsdale, which, as you mentioned, is only part of the Phoenix Metro area, has a population of about 241,000. Phoenix is about one and a half million. I find that amazing. I just can't imagine living around so few people. My whole life has been spent in orbit of major cities - from San Francisco to Phoenix.

And yes, the slogan for Expelled was sort of... confusing. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was intentionally satirical. But I do know better. They're just dumb.

Oh, well, yes, having shoes is definitely better than not. I'm a big fan of owning at least one pair of shoes. In fact, I have several pairs. The way most women like to collect shoes, and obsess over them, is very amusing to me.

I've known people as filthy as you describe. In fact, my brother was one. He seems to have cleaned up a bit recently. When he and I shared a place, however, it was a disaster. I'm certainly no neat-freak, but I have my limits. Eventually the choice was similar to yours - either lose my mind or just stop caring until I got a new place.

Usually the people who can't take a stand on anything aren't smart enough to figure out where they should stand. Chances are that he's tried to have an opinion in the past and had his ass handed to him by someone who halfway knew what she was talking about. There are several reactions one could have to that, two of which follow: do more research and learn about subjects before having opinions, or decide not to have opinions that can be attacked so as to avoid confrontation and exposure of one's own ignorance.

He sounds like he falls into the latter. I can't stand people like that, either. It's like they decide to be inoffensively stupid. Safely ignorant. Mediocre.

I never understood the thing with shoes. But I guess men aren't supposed to.

I had to replace my computer a few months ago. This was on top of almost every other expensive thing in my house breaking at the same time. I wasn't as sad about parting with the computer as I was about parting with all that money.

But I do love my new computer.

that's bizarre - i kind of wish they'd dub some shows into scots gaelic just for the entertainment factor, and so the gaelic speaking northerners would have something decent to watch in their own language rather than just. . . shows about fishing hosted by beardy guys in arran jumpers.

But isn't that all they do in Scotland...?

Fishing shows, local news and cartoons, that's what they get here. I have also seen Tom & Jerry in gaelic, which was almost equally as interesting. But what I would really like to see in gaelic is Rikki Lake Show. Or maybe Battlestar Galactica.
The most fascinating thing was that Cartman really sounded like Cartman. But speaking jibberish.

you're awesome. I missed your blogs so much. and I miss you even more. I'm fine, by the by. surviving and learning to thrive. not quite there but on my way, certainly. most importantly, I'm writing again. a play. full length.