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Despite the scare in the weather here on Friday (6" or so of snow) I managed to pull off my super secret plan so secret I didn't mention it on LJ. :) Plan: LARP succeeded, and I had a lot of fun playing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
buzzermccain's game, meeting her Chicago friends, and getting to hang out with her, sapphohestia and to a lesser extent (cause she had to leave) swan_tower. My character basically accomplished her/his goals, too, which made me very happy. The story of this, by the by, was that my mother agreed to buy me a plane ticket to Chicago that I couldn't myself afford as a thank you for my help with my grandfather. I left on Friday night and got back this morning, and everything went of smooth aside from the minor insomnia which combined with other factors to ensure that I only got an hour and a half of sleep last night. :)
This morning on the plane, I finished the best book I've read recently. One of my goals for 2008 has been to read a LOT more than I have in previous years, and I've been more or less succeeding. At my grandfathers, I was selecting books from among those that my mom has sent up there over the years, the last of which I picked up was The Alienist by Caleb Carr. I didn't expect all that much, honestly, but the book was phenomenal (though I wasn't as happy with the ending as I might have wanted to be). It made me feel all my deficiencies as a writer (and, happily, made me want to work hard to over come them rather than give up) in that he accomplished with admirable results something I started to attempt much more lamely in the last project I started - the book is set in 1896 New York, and NYC is definitively a character in the book. It was exhaustively researched and excellently written - so much so that it could have been nonfiction if I didn't know better.
However, that wasn't really the point of writing this. The next book on the queue is Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. I voted for him, and I'm starting to really like it, so I thought I aughta read it. I'm impressed with it so far, but I decided on the walk home the last leg of my trip that I wanted to think out and elucidate some of my own political views on issues big and small before going and further, because I'm noticing ways in which I agree and don't with him already. So here goes...
( Political Thoughts )
buzzermccain's game, meeting her Chicago friends, and getting to hang out with her, sapphohestia and to a lesser extent (cause she had to leave) swan_tower. My character basically accomplished her/his goals, too, which made me very happy. The story of this, by the by, was that my mother agreed to buy me a plane ticket to Chicago that I couldn't myself afford as a thank you for my help with my grandfather. I left on Friday night and got back this morning, and everything went of smooth aside from the minor insomnia which combined with other factors to ensure that I only got an hour and a half of sleep last night. :)This morning on the plane, I finished the best book I've read recently. One of my goals for 2008 has been to read a LOT more than I have in previous years, and I've been more or less succeeding. At my grandfathers, I was selecting books from among those that my mom has sent up there over the years, the last of which I picked up was The Alienist by Caleb Carr. I didn't expect all that much, honestly, but the book was phenomenal (though I wasn't as happy with the ending as I might have wanted to be). It made me feel all my deficiencies as a writer (and, happily, made me want to work hard to over come them rather than give up) in that he accomplished with admirable results something I started to attempt much more lamely in the last project I started - the book is set in 1896 New York, and NYC is definitively a character in the book. It was exhaustively researched and excellently written - so much so that it could have been nonfiction if I didn't know better.
However, that wasn't really the point of writing this. The next book on the queue is Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. I voted for him, and I'm starting to really like it, so I thought I aughta read it. I'm impressed with it so far, but I decided on the walk home the last leg of my trip that I wanted to think out and elucidate some of my own political views on issues big and small before going and further, because I'm noticing ways in which I agree and don't with him already. So here goes...
( Political Thoughts )
