waking up slowly.
heading out for a second shift of work today. been working my ass off trying to pay off some bills and save up some money for...I'm not sure what yet...going back to school? some travel? maybe both if I can manage it...probably not.
The weather has turned cool here in Central Texas and it really feels like autumn, pretty much my favorite time of year. Itching to travel, like I usually do in October, but no trips to Romania or such in the cards this year. But that's ok. Keeping my brain busy lately with books. picked out some good reading for the month. Just blew through Lost Souls and now reading Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. She's a great, smart, horror writer and she works New Orleans into her stories pretty well. She's pretty much the beginning of the thread that led me to this site seven years ago.
Got some more books in the mail yesterday. Finally used up a Barnes and (ig)Noble gift card I got last Christmas. Got Dead Souls by Gogol and the Nightwatch book. I liked the movie quite a bit. I want to read the novel in translation and then go back and read it in Russian later if I can get ahold of a copy of it. Bought another book in of Russian novellas with the translations on the opposite page. So...yeah...still working on my Russian. also reading an interesting book called Clash with Distant Cultures. It's an old text book from my Tulane years. It's written pre-9/11 but the observations it makes, some of them anyway, about the place that culture plays in American Foreign Policy and International Policy in general, bear out to modern times.
Kinda bummed. ok more than kinda, that I won't be able to make it to the Rise Against show next weekend. They had to reschedule my monthly Marine Corps Drill for that weekend and we're going out of town for it...so...enh. But I did manage to pick up their new album yesterday and I've been listening to it. Good stuff.
need to grab a quick coffee and something to eat. gotta get moving. should be an interesting evening. gonna be working on top of a tall building. best remember to grab my jacket.
have a good weekend, y'all.
heading out for a second shift of work today. been working my ass off trying to pay off some bills and save up some money for...I'm not sure what yet...going back to school? some travel? maybe both if I can manage it...probably not.
The weather has turned cool here in Central Texas and it really feels like autumn, pretty much my favorite time of year. Itching to travel, like I usually do in October, but no trips to Romania or such in the cards this year. But that's ok. Keeping my brain busy lately with books. picked out some good reading for the month. Just blew through Lost Souls and now reading Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. She's a great, smart, horror writer and she works New Orleans into her stories pretty well. She's pretty much the beginning of the thread that led me to this site seven years ago.
Got some more books in the mail yesterday. Finally used up a Barnes and (ig)Noble gift card I got last Christmas. Got Dead Souls by Gogol and the Nightwatch book. I liked the movie quite a bit. I want to read the novel in translation and then go back and read it in Russian later if I can get ahold of a copy of it. Bought another book in of Russian novellas with the translations on the opposite page. So...yeah...still working on my Russian. also reading an interesting book called Clash with Distant Cultures. It's an old text book from my Tulane years. It's written pre-9/11 but the observations it makes, some of them anyway, about the place that culture plays in American Foreign Policy and International Policy in general, bear out to modern times.
Kinda bummed. ok more than kinda, that I won't be able to make it to the Rise Against show next weekend. They had to reschedule my monthly Marine Corps Drill for that weekend and we're going out of town for it...so...enh. But I did manage to pick up their new album yesterday and I've been listening to it. Good stuff.
need to grab a quick coffee and something to eat. gotta get moving. should be an interesting evening. gonna be working on top of a tall building. best remember to grab my jacket.
have a good weekend, y'all.
I took a hit with Reggie Bush, too, in that league where I'm beating Pip. It's frustrating, 'cause just when I'm (hopefully) getting Westbrook back, Bush goes down. I'm still in first, even after the Eagles bye week (hence my two open slots and Kerry Fucking Collins at QB), so it's all good.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, man!