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rambling, especially about books
Jul. 12th, 2002 10:35 amHere I am, too bloody early in the morning on my last full day at Simon's Rock. My final conference with my teacher is at 1:30 this afternoon; I've just now finished the last of my work for that. Hopefully she'll like my fictional memoir. She and I have had completely opposite ideas on a couple of things in it, like what should be the end and whether the formless poetic paragraph was any good. Now I've revised it to match what I liked, so it really doesn't match what she liked, so yeah. She may not like it anymore.
I'm so tired. Last night I went to bed around 2; I didn't stay up to do anything in particular, I just sort of... stayed up. Then the phone rang at 7:30 this morning, which woke me up, and as usual my roommate's alarm went off to annoying music and she didn't bother turning it off for 20 minutes (she does this EVERY MORNING, thank god tomorrow's the last one).
Yesterday I went to the Book Barn, which is literally a barn full of very cheap books. I got 5 books. First there's Beowulf, which cost me $2.50 and was obviously a former schoolbook (it had someone's name and room number in the front). Then The Courage to Be, by Paul Tillich, which cost $2 and is going in the LRY library when I'm done with it. Similarly my 25-cent book is going to the LRY when I finish; it's something about the major religions of the modern world. Then there's my free book, which I think should be hilarious. It's a skinny little paperback called The Stork Factor. Not only was it free, not only is there a typo on the back cover description, but also! Around page 95, on beautiful glossy paper, there are... cigarette ads! However, my ultimate find and the one I'm proudest of is a copy of the November 1973 issue of Analog SF&F. $1 for a magazine that includes an editorial about Watergate and the first part of a serial by the man who is now the editor. I'm going to enjoy that.
Tomorrow's the day I leave here. After that I go to Minnesota, where I won't have internet access. (Hell, I won't have a TV. I'll be in a cabin by a lake, reading Walden. Or possibly Ivanhoe, since that's what I've got available.) Then I'm home for about 12 hours before taking off for Swuusi. This'll be my first year going to the separate high school camp. Should be interesting.
Signing off. Have a good couple of weeks, everyone; you probably won't hear from me much, if at all.
I'm so tired. Last night I went to bed around 2; I didn't stay up to do anything in particular, I just sort of... stayed up. Then the phone rang at 7:30 this morning, which woke me up, and as usual my roommate's alarm went off to annoying music and she didn't bother turning it off for 20 minutes (she does this EVERY MORNING, thank god tomorrow's the last one).
Yesterday I went to the Book Barn, which is literally a barn full of very cheap books. I got 5 books. First there's Beowulf, which cost me $2.50 and was obviously a former schoolbook (it had someone's name and room number in the front). Then The Courage to Be, by Paul Tillich, which cost $2 and is going in the LRY library when I'm done with it. Similarly my 25-cent book is going to the LRY when I finish; it's something about the major religions of the modern world. Then there's my free book, which I think should be hilarious. It's a skinny little paperback called The Stork Factor. Not only was it free, not only is there a typo on the back cover description, but also! Around page 95, on beautiful glossy paper, there are... cigarette ads! However, my ultimate find and the one I'm proudest of is a copy of the November 1973 issue of Analog SF&F. $1 for a magazine that includes an editorial about Watergate and the first part of a serial by the man who is now the editor. I'm going to enjoy that.
Tomorrow's the day I leave here. After that I go to Minnesota, where I won't have internet access. (Hell, I won't have a TV. I'll be in a cabin by a lake, reading Walden. Or possibly Ivanhoe, since that's what I've got available.) Then I'm home for about 12 hours before taking off for Swuusi. This'll be my first year going to the separate high school camp. Should be interesting.
Signing off. Have a good couple of weeks, everyone; you probably won't hear from me much, if at all.