JOURNAL: Kusoyaro (Hsien Lee)

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  • Fuck fuck fuckity fuck 2001-09-26 16:12:40 I just realized that my keys aren't in my pocket. They must be in my car. Fuck me. 
  • Aw jeeez... 2001-09-26 15:51:11 (consider that my audition for Fargo 2)
    I don't know what the hell just happened. I was just sitting here putzing around on the computer, when suddenly Wallmaster crashed...and took all of my pictures of Leandra with it. The entire directory is just EMPTY now. That's bizarre.

    Speaking of computer problems, this Matlab => C++ compiler is infuriating.

    You don't care about any of this.  
  • I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (and "blow it out your ass!") 2001-09-26 14:36:24 No, that was not my rendition of "Blue." Actually, I just finished James Clavell's "Shogun" recently. I'm an avid
    reader, but for some reason I have this thing about finishing books...I HAVE to finish a book I'm reading before I
    move on to the next one, even if it sucks. The only books I can remember abandoning in recent years is "The Path of
    Daggers" by Robert Jordan and "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy...and when I do abandon books, I do so with a heavy
    heart.

    So...I started reading "Shogun" during spring break back in March. I read about 700 of its 1200 pages pretty
    quickly. Then it got slow...so I slowed down. I worked my way through about a 100 pages over the next few weeks.
    Then I met Leandra and started work (two completely separate events), which ground my leisure reading time to a
    halt.

    One moment. I need coffee.

    Ah, cheap watered down coffee. Give me this stuff over Starbucks any day.
    Anyway...once I got everything balanced and settled with my new job, apartment, girlfriend, etc., I wanted to read
    again. Every time I went to the bookstore I saw 10 new books I wanted to read. And every time I would remember
    "Shogun" sitting on my desk...and I just couldn't bring myself to pick it up. It was just so....sloooow! I made it
    through "War and Peace" unabridged, you'd think I could make it through this!
    I couldn't read a thing until I finished "Shogun." I was buying books left and right, and they were going straight
    to my shelf. "Shogun" had become my prison. So then one night I sat down and forced myself to finish it. It
    wasn't bad, just very slow near the end...and I guess the actual ending blew big time too.

    Great climax, eh? What an uninteresting story. The Epic Battle of Hsien vs. "Shogun." Just how bored AM I here at
    work? Damn.

    Anyway, now I'm reading "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King, which I bought for myself in hardcover months ago in
    celebration of finishing up my last final exams EVER (well, there's always grad school). Sigh...I adored "Bag of
    Bones" and "Hearts in Atlantis," both of which I could not put down and finished in one day each. Mr. King was
    growing up! Don't get me wrong, I love his old stuff too...the Dark Tower series is probably my favorite fantasy
    series ever. But his latest few books were more than just amazingly entertaining, they truly touched me. I guess I
    should throw "The Green Mile" in there too. So...the cover of "Dreamcatcher" looked innocuous enough; a pretty
    purple-tinted winter forest with deer frollicking peacefully about. 200 pages later, and I'm reading about space
    aliens who gestate inside people and escape by tearing a hole in their hosts' asses and then scamper about eating
    people. I think one of old Stevie's descriptions of the carnage wreaked upon a poor victim's posterior was
    something like "a bloody crater over a foot in diameter."

    Huh. Ah well, I'm less than halfway through it...supposedly it gets very introspective and psychological later.
    Then again, there is very little that is LESS introspective and psychological than aliens ripping jagged craters out
    of peoples' behinds.

    Next up for me: "Otherland" by Tad Williams, "Black House" by Stephen King and Peter Straub, rereading "Lord of the
    Rings," "The Bear and the Dragon" by Clancy ("Executive Orders" sucked, "Rainbow Six" rocked, he gets one more
    chance), and by the time I'm through with all that the new Terry Goodkind should be out.

    Oh yeah...I also recently read "Choke," the newest from Chuck Palahniuk, author of "Fight Club." I've read all 4 of
    his books, and each one is more twisted than the one before. The world of "Choke" is peopled with sexaholics up the wazoo, and
    ever since I told my friends about a grotesque (but unbelievably hilarious) scene involving anal beads, the line
    "Wait...there were supposed to be 10 of these!" has become a staple in our ever-growing catalogue of in-jokes.

    Holy shit, you're actually reading this? Why????

    Back to work.
     
  • can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind.... 2001-09-26 10:09:18 At work now....I don't want to be here.

    I want to be in Dallas. 
  • Wow...closer to home than WTC, in a way. 2001-09-25 20:09:05 Last night there was a tornado right near me...I hear it hit the University of Maryland-College Park hard, and that two people were killed there, possibly students.

    I believe that several members of this list are UMD students, including Waldo. That's really goddamn scary.

    I wish there was some way to tell whether people are actually reading this. Ah well, Phade says he's on it ^_^ 
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