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Pleased at the thought of work giving me a work laptop, the more I think about it. I'll get gig back on my personal laptop for myself, which will be really nice, though I'll have to finally pick up a copy of Microsoft Office of my own. Oh, well. :)
Trying to read Charles de Lint's Memory & Dream, which was recommended to me as the main character has a gift somewhat like I imagined for my Deliria character at Gencon, apparently. Having real trouble with it: I'm maybe 25 pages in and have put the book down three times. I'm not in the right mood to read something where the author is bringing unpleasant topics up, hard, every few pages; and to make it harder, I keep getting annoyed/disgusted with the main character. (Which is really sad when I have hardly started the book). Worst of all, from the lead-in of "present" time I'm pretty sure I'm going to continue to be annoyed with her, at the very least in any and all "past" sections.
I really want to read this as I was told it was good, and it probably gets better. But I think I am giving it a rest for now, at least, because it is not comfortable to read. At Gencon, there was a seminar where the guy leading it was saying that you needed to keep people turning your pages - this story keeps stopping me from turning the page. It is not dragging me in, it's making me want to run away!
Meanwhile, I am cleaning up my hard drive by clearing off photos that are on the backup hard drive and I don't need local copies of as I neither find them impressive nor anything I want to work with just now. And then I think I may go through my beadwork magazines and books, so I can return them to the library. I don't bead any more, but I keep meaning to - I still have all my stuff. I used to read the beading magazines for inspiration but they're too expensive for that, and I never feel fair to the bookstores if I read the whole thing there (even if my "reading" is a lot more like "skimming" since I usually do not care about the instructions or graphs); the library is a great answer, now that I know they get them in.
Trying to read Charles de Lint's Memory & Dream, which was recommended to me as the main character has a gift somewhat like I imagined for my Deliria character at Gencon, apparently. Having real trouble with it: I'm maybe 25 pages in and have put the book down three times. I'm not in the right mood to read something where the author is bringing unpleasant topics up, hard, every few pages; and to make it harder, I keep getting annoyed/disgusted with the main character. (Which is really sad when I have hardly started the book). Worst of all, from the lead-in of "present" time I'm pretty sure I'm going to continue to be annoyed with her, at the very least in any and all "past" sections.
I really want to read this as I was told it was good, and it probably gets better. But I think I am giving it a rest for now, at least, because it is not comfortable to read. At Gencon, there was a seminar where the guy leading it was saying that you needed to keep people turning your pages - this story keeps stopping me from turning the page. It is not dragging me in, it's making me want to run away!
Meanwhile, I am cleaning up my hard drive by clearing off photos that are on the backup hard drive and I don't need local copies of as I neither find them impressive nor anything I want to work with just now. And then I think I may go through my beadwork magazines and books, so I can return them to the library. I don't bead any more, but I keep meaning to - I still have all my stuff. I used to read the beading magazines for inspiration but they're too expensive for that, and I never feel fair to the bookstores if I read the whole thing there (even if my "reading" is a lot more like "skimming" since I usually do not care about the instructions or graphs); the library is a great answer, now that I know they get them in.
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