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Right. So, if you know me, or have at least read my first entry, you're aware that I live alone in this apartment in downtown Brookings, South Dakota. And if you keep up with my entries, you're probably aware that this drives me a little batty...
Well... it's weird. Every night, somewhere about 9 pm or later, I've been getting this nightly *visitor*. It's this random bug that likes to fly around the southernmost part of my living room (so it's directly behind me when I'm at my computer) and run into the ceiling time and time again, and every time it hits the ceiling, it makes a little tink sound, which gets kind of distracting when you're trying to rant about poems and kumquats and an audience's reactions to stuff.
But it just flits around for about fifteen minutes, then seems to find its way back out again! And it does this every night without fail! It's some sort of ladybug-esque beetle thingum, like the ones South Dakota recently imported from Japan to eat aphids in the fields and everything, but ... WEIRD!
Maybe my brother has finally got some culture and read Kafka, and realized what an intellectually-deprived creature he is, and metamorphosized into a bug and just decides that rather on getting any intellectual food to keep him alive, he's just going to bug me every night until he dies. That'd be like him, the b*****d.
Speaking of existentialism, I think I did ok on my test on Wednesday (not that any of you knew about it, but that's my fault for not telling you). Some of the essay questions had me buggered (can you tell I've been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett?) but the multiple-choice questions were pretty easy.
Speaking of Terry Pratchett, I really think I'm starting to get a little obsessed. My current quest is to own all of his Discworld books, and to at least read a few of his non-DWs (apart from Good Omens, that's just a must-read for anybody anyway, and I already own it besides). Monstrous Regiment and Night Watch really impressed me, and I got to read a few chapters of Going Postal a few weeks ago, too, and it was pretty damn good as well (though I am not certain about the guy who likes pins.. that seems a little odd even for DW). But I've got a lot of the older ones to pick up yet (almost all of the Rincewind books!) and a couple others which seem to be pretty damn popular (Small Gods, Mort, Reaper Man). I always seem to plop in right in the middle of a story line for one batch of characters or another. Vimes and the Watch, though, man are they a great bunch to spend two evenings (the average amount of time it's taken me to get though a DW novel, break times for doing homework, going to classes, and sleeping included) with. Yup. Gotta get more DW. And I've gotta write more. I've just gotta.
Speaking of writing more (haha, look at me flow!) I've done a bit of work on the Gilgamesh. I ought to be working, heaven knows the books I checked out are overdue a week already! But I started writing the first few scenes, and as soon as I've at least gotten a bit of scripting done up to where Gilgamesh and Enkidu meet, I'll go back to the ol' notetaking and see if I can't decipher any more meaning any further down. =)
Brain thinky moment, because I haven't done one in buggerall...
110. If you're going to have delusions, may as well go for the really satisfying ones.
No comic link, because I don't want to! blaugh
Terry Pratchett Link! Haha, fooled you! GO NOW
 Adeiras · Fri Oct 22, 2004 @ 06:12am · 2 Comments |
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