(At an internet cafe again.)
I forgot to post the confirmed dates of my trip to Japan (confirmed as in, I have the tickets in hand). I'll be leaving NYC April 4th and returning April 12th, so a good week there! I'm so excited! And oh, to see B-T!! I'm crossing my fingers about getting tickets!
I mentioned that it should be just past the peak of the 桜花見 (cherry blossom viewings), so we might be lucky to catch some of the beauty of it! But then Angelica reminded me of her allergies... heh heh heh. Well, all I can say is that she better stock up on some sort of antihistamine or whatever, 'cause we're stuck with it now. Besides... I can only imagine how beatiful it's going to be!
Books I've been reading:
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey (who wrote the Kushiel Trilogy). It's completely intriguing and very good so far. I got about halfway through and I started feeling apprehensive because it did not look like it was going well for the main characters! Then I read on her website that it's the first part in a duology, and that it's a tragedy! Oh, how the heart breaks! But I shall persevere because I love tragedies, and because she writes so very well.
Fight Club by Chuck something-with-a-P. Very good. The movie stayed oh-so-very close to the book; I'm much impressed. Not finished with it, however, even though it's a relatively short book (less than 200 pages, trade-size paperback). Will comment more later.
Er, now I can't remember what else I've been reading.
But this whole week that Liz has been in Italy, I've been playing FF7 almost non-stop (for the first time). It's actually pretty entertaining, and although I didn't get Yuffie, I'm not as broken up about it as I originally was, after flipping through the guide book at the bookstore and finding out that she steals all your materia and leaves you to fight like 7 bosses in a row without them in her hometown. However, as Liz just pointed out, that sort of thing is usually exciting, which is why I'm copying Angelica's saved game (she just got to the world map) and doing it over from there when I finish my own game. (I just cannot bring myself to do the beginning over; it's so tedious.)
Oh yes, and having weird (but very vivid) RPG-related dreams that star a grown-up Ryu (from Breath of Fire II) and Cloud (from FF7), but not in the same dream.
Doing hair today, so will post picsASAP eventually.
I forgot to post the confirmed dates of my trip to Japan (confirmed as in, I have the tickets in hand). I'll be leaving NYC April 4th and returning April 12th, so a good week there! I'm so excited! And oh, to see B-T!! I'm crossing my fingers about getting tickets!
I mentioned that it should be just past the peak of the 桜花見 (cherry blossom viewings), so we might be lucky to catch some of the beauty of it! But then Angelica reminded me of her allergies... heh heh heh. Well, all I can say is that she better stock up on some sort of antihistamine or whatever, 'cause we're stuck with it now. Besides... I can only imagine how beatiful it's going to be!
Books I've been reading:
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey (who wrote the Kushiel Trilogy). It's completely intriguing and very good so far. I got about halfway through and I started feeling apprehensive because it did not look like it was going well for the main characters! Then I read on her website that it's the first part in a duology, and that it's a tragedy! Oh, how the heart breaks! But I shall persevere because I love tragedies, and because she writes so very well.
Fight Club by Chuck something-with-a-P. Very good. The movie stayed oh-so-very close to the book; I'm much impressed. Not finished with it, however, even though it's a relatively short book (less than 200 pages, trade-size paperback). Will comment more later.
Er, now I can't remember what else I've been reading.
But this whole week that Liz has been in Italy, I've been playing FF7 almost non-stop (for the first time). It's actually pretty entertaining, and although I didn't get Yuffie, I'm not as broken up about it as I originally was, after flipping through the guide book at the bookstore and finding out that she steals all your materia and leaves you to fight like 7 bosses in a row without them in her hometown. However, as Liz just pointed out, that sort of thing is usually exciting, which is why I'm copying Angelica's saved game (she just got to the world map) and doing it over from there when I finish my own game. (I just cannot bring myself to do the beginning over; it's so tedious.)
Oh yes, and having weird (but very vivid) RPG-related dreams that star a grown-up Ryu (from Breath of Fire II) and Cloud (from FF7), but not in the same dream.
Doing hair today, so will post pics