Since I moved and found myself with a 2 hour commute daily, I've been getting a lot of reading done. I've always liked reading, of course, but being an English major with an abnormally slow reading pace often meant that I didn't have the time for pleasure reading after I'd finally finished all of the… Continue reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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My New Best Friend
They say you can't buy happiness, but you can buy pets, which are pretty much the same thing. So I've gone and done just that. Meet Tonks: She is a 6-week-old female algerian gray hedgehog, and she thinks that Drew is a jungle gym. I've named her Tonks on account of the fact that she… Continue reading My New Best Friend
Pros and CONS
This might be a sad thing for a scifi nerd to confess, but I have never been to a convention. Of any kind. Despite the fact that Seattle is one of the biggest cities for cons, with PAX, Sakuracon, Geek Girl Con and Emerald City Comicon taking the headlining spots. The thing about cons is that… Continue reading Pros and CONS
Hamlet’s Father
For those of you who haven't heard about it yet, Orson Scott Card (Author of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, which are both pretty great books) recently came under fire for an adaptation of Hamlet. The novella is called "Hamlet's Father," and it depicts the deceased king as a homosexual pedophile who molested Hamlet's entire male friend circle (thereby turning them all… Continue reading Hamlet’s Father
Moving…
It's the end of my lease in the U District, which means that I have to change residencies. This move is different than the others have been, though, because I'm the only one moving--everyone else is either staying here or has already moved out. It's strange, really. It feels more like leaving something behind than… Continue reading Moving…
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