Well that was a waste of awake
Nov. 8th, 2011 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I attempted to dry laundry with the dryer part of my washer/dryer. I wondered if perhaps I gave up on it too soon last time. I wondered if maybe hanging things in the wardrobe while wet could go horribly wrong. I let the thing run for 90 minutes and had merely achieved warm wet laundry where usually there is cold wet. I hung it up again.
... now I have to hope my thermals are actually dry by tomorrow.
Also, the stitching has come out of the waist of my thermal trousers, and the elastic can't be far behind. Lovely.
I also discovered that Settlers is like Westward with swisher graphics. Swisher graphics makes it even more annoying. It's equally pointless and has approximately the same gameplay and challenges, it just hides it in more fake tree branches. I got very very bored.
I finished reading 'Storm Glass' by Maria V Snyder. The main character, Opal, the narrator of the first person book, spends the whole book being all oh no I'm so weak and feeble I can't do anything I'm such a doormat victim person, and everyone tells her to stand up for herself and realise her own power. I stalled in the middle and decided if she didn't bloody get over it by the end of the book I wasn't going to bother with the rest of the series. Only I forgot there's another failure mode. She does get over it and do deciding things and stand up for herself. Sort of. Briefly. While wibbling about it. But she also manages to be completely and deeply stupid, so I'm no longer interested. I mean, the problem with a first person narrator is you can't give the reader clues without having the narrator notice them, and then when the reader can put them together and the narrator doesn't, they look thick. But she was thick the same way repeatedly, the same really terribly obvious way, and I'm bored bored bored. Also, people keep falling in love with her, and I can't see why, she's wet and annoying. Also, one of them fell in love with her because usually when he tortures people they give up right away but he had to try three times before she told him everything. That's just too creepy to hang out with. Plus when I bought the book I asked at the desk if it was the first one in the series, but it turns out it's the first one in the second series, and it keeps stopping to do previously in Ixia and tell me all the plot twists from the first series. So even if I'd have liked that one better, I now know what happens anyway, so I won't bother. And finally, the book doesn't bloody end, it just gets to a point and stops, with half the characters kidnapped and a ton still to do. It must have reached word count.
Bored now.
I'm mostly bored with most everything. It isn't helpful.
Tomorrow I do more studying.
... it would help if I weren't bored with that too.
... now I have to hope my thermals are actually dry by tomorrow.
Also, the stitching has come out of the waist of my thermal trousers, and the elastic can't be far behind. Lovely.
I also discovered that Settlers is like Westward with swisher graphics. Swisher graphics makes it even more annoying. It's equally pointless and has approximately the same gameplay and challenges, it just hides it in more fake tree branches. I got very very bored.
I finished reading 'Storm Glass' by Maria V Snyder. The main character, Opal, the narrator of the first person book, spends the whole book being all oh no I'm so weak and feeble I can't do anything I'm such a doormat victim person, and everyone tells her to stand up for herself and realise her own power. I stalled in the middle and decided if she didn't bloody get over it by the end of the book I wasn't going to bother with the rest of the series. Only I forgot there's another failure mode. She does get over it and do deciding things and stand up for herself. Sort of. Briefly. While wibbling about it. But she also manages to be completely and deeply stupid, so I'm no longer interested. I mean, the problem with a first person narrator is you can't give the reader clues without having the narrator notice them, and then when the reader can put them together and the narrator doesn't, they look thick. But she was thick the same way repeatedly, the same really terribly obvious way, and I'm bored bored bored. Also, people keep falling in love with her, and I can't see why, she's wet and annoying. Also, one of them fell in love with her because usually when he tortures people they give up right away but he had to try three times before she told him everything. That's just too creepy to hang out with. Plus when I bought the book I asked at the desk if it was the first one in the series, but it turns out it's the first one in the second series, and it keeps stopping to do previously in Ixia and tell me all the plot twists from the first series. So even if I'd have liked that one better, I now know what happens anyway, so I won't bother. And finally, the book doesn't bloody end, it just gets to a point and stops, with half the characters kidnapped and a ton still to do. It must have reached word count.
Bored now.
I'm mostly bored with most everything. It isn't helpful.
Tomorrow I do more studying.
... it would help if I weren't bored with that too.