Purple Tinted Glasses

I caught my favorite co-worker in th kitchen today. The conversation went from paper cutters (of the human variety) to crazy sci-fi novels. We started talking about Ray Bradbury and he told me to “go google it”. Frank… told me… to google it. So I did.

He recommended that I read October Country. So this is me officially putting it on my list. While I’m at it, I’m going to add Deception Point along with Eragon and Eldest. I think those are behind my finishing The Gunslinger and the rest of the Dark Tower series. I forget how many books are in it. I’m sure Will’ll remind me.

Oh that’s right… Frank threw out Bradbury’s name as a relief to all of these long book series I am getting myself into. I sure do listen and retain.

Harry Potter, I have conquered you! My whole summer, gone. Just like that. All seven books done in four months time. I guess I have the general reaction: Happy I’ve read the last book, sad that the series is over.

Now I can get back to more important things… after I read the final book in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the original source of my reading bug).

My knitting to do list is getting a little long:

to read: 01011001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 0010000 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100110 00101110

But it will be in shades of purple

For when I can’t accomplish the binary scarf :)

**Potter spoiler warning**

You may not want to read on if you have not finished book six yet.

Oh, page 596, how I loathe you. I had already ruined the ending of the book for myself by reading the internets in the days before seven’s release. Only today did I read the dreadful pages. Even though I knew it was coming, I hung my head, sad panda style, immediately after finishing the chapter. Without even saying a word, all those around me knew what page I was on (potter geeks). Allen, feel free to wear your spoiler shirt around me again.

It was a nice rainy day today, perfect for reading. This sent me on a mad hunt for a copy of book seven. Erica lent me her copy, but it does no good sitting up on my tv cabinet when I’m sitting at Molly’s enjoying life. Luckily, Decatur News Stand had a stray copy that only caught my eye after I had given up. Look at that, I even bought my very first Potter book today!

Well, according to work, I’ve logged somewhere around 50 hours between yesterday and today. I seem to have been struggling to keep my mind on real work at my real job. I fixed that today though, logging 7.75 of 8 to real job work and also logging some time from the last couple of days that… well… didn’t get done until today.

Also just spent the last 3 hours workin for free for the Big Easy Rollergirls, managed to squeeze in a 10 min nap after work and ate dinner with Misty.

Now, out of the corner of my eye, I see Will reading, envious of his being 100 or fewer pages from the end of Harry Potter book 7, while I’m not even half way through Book 6. Hmmpf.

What a wonderful feeling. To finish things, that is. I’m on a roll tonight.

So far I’ve managed to:

1. Balance my checkbook. I guess this isn’t that great of an accomplishment. I’ll just have to do it again in about 30 days. Though this was the first time this year I managed to make time for personal accounting.
2. Finish laundry. This one is even less valuable, seeing as how I will just have to do this again
in approximately 7 days. (For those of you who don’t know, I loathe laundry. Hate it. Wish it would just do itself or materialize.)

3. Watch the end of Arrested Development Season 2. So I guess this one doesn’t really qualify as finishing something to the end either. I still have season 3 to watch. But At least I can give Allen his dvds back.

4. Finish reading So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Great little story, part of the larger, The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide by one Mr. Douglas Adams. I also finished Young Zaphoid Plays it Safe (of the same Guide), but I guess that story was only 10 pages long. Yes, technically there is still one more book left, Mostly Harmless, but I must move on to bigger things for now.

I have been told to put my Hitchhiker’s journey on hold (yes, with only one book left) and move on immediately to none other than Harry Potter. I haven’t read book one yet. I guess it’s about time I give in to pop culture. I have a cheering section now (more like a rowdy crowd of secretaries, IT folks, and computer nerds – collectively, the LNK) urging me to read up.

The plan: Read book one. Watch movie one. Read book two. Watch… well you get the picture. I am to be prepared for the newest movie (I forget whether it’s 5 or 6 at this moment) before it reaches theaters.

I hear they’re easy reads. We should all know though, before The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide, I was averaging > 1book a year. I started my little journey right after Mardi Gras. Maybe I’ll multi task this weekend and enjoy some Jazz Fest and some read fest at the same time.

For now, bed. I’m tired (even after my lovely mid-evening nap). If it weren’t for practice tomorrow, I’d sleep until noon.

Other things I’ve technically finished tonight: Left over sushi (from lunch), a glass of wine (but I didn’t finish the bottle… once again, guess it doesn’t count), the work week, and this blog.