Journal Entries: Now 42% More Fun!*

[active_apathy]

Right. So, I got a phonecall earlier. It was from a bookshop, and they told me that they had Wicked in for me. From there, the conversation went like this:

ME: *thinks: SQUEEEEE!* Already? That's good!
BOOKSHOP PERSON: We can hold it for up to fourteen days for you.
ME: Give me half an hour.
BOOKSHOP PERSON: Um... ok.
ME: Thanks. Bye!

30 minutes (and $AU30) later, I have a copy of Wicked. It looks pretty, feels nice, smells like a lovely new book and is going to get read right after I'm done with Mr Rankin.

Next item of news: I catch buses. No real revelation here, but today I happened to see what must be the ugliest block of half-built flats ever. This makes me wonder why they still bother with artists' impressions. I'd rather see artists' opinions of new buildings. They'd be all useful; something like "These flats look like something a four-year-old child of chartered accountants would build with lego once all the other four-year-olds had beaten 'em up for all the interesting bits."

Now, we come to something that really, really irritates me: People who use credit cards in express aisles. Two of these individuals stood between me and paying for my $1 cherry ripe today. Not happy at all. They delayed chocolate, which made me semi-grumpy.

*Findings based on a random sample of not-fun entries compared to some more fun journal entries over a period of seventeen seconds. Findings may not reflect reality, or be based on actual research. Titles should be read for entertainment, rather than for guidance, making my archives completely useless but that's just how it happens. Entries may cause giggling, amusement, falling off chairs, uncontrollable laughter or death by repeated violent expulsion of air from lungs.

Comments

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

YAY WICKED!

Boo on stupid people. Don't you know she needs her chocolate covered strawberriescherries?!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Cherries, dark chocolate... what else could you want?

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

So, do you want a real answer, or the LJ friendly version?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mmm... let's start LJ-friendly, shall we?

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Oh! Well in that case, I don't like dark chocolate, so I say No to dark chocolate. I also don't like cherries, and I do prefer strawberries or raspberries. So there. That's what I'd like. :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And the real answer?

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Wicked is a wonderful, amazing, happy, terrifying, depressing, sexy, heartwrenching book.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my whole bookshelf squished between two covers. Most excellent.

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

It is. I guarantee you'll enjoy it. And the sequel comes out in fairly short order as well.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a sequel??

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. It is due out mid September I believe.

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. *glee*

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

eesh, that was me. I'm a nerd. :/

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Son Of A Witch. Comes out in September.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Son??

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK OR HAVEN'T YOU!

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

I've read the first one...

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Wicked. Right. Think about the book, dear.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Elphaba has a brother?

(it's been about 5 months since I've read it, as a warning)

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

I'm not posting spoilers in active_apathy's journal, she hasn't read it!

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

oh, whoops!!

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

um, you already did!

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

What? Where! *pouts confusedly* Posting the title of the next book isn't a spoiler.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Not at all. There's even an ad for it right near the About the Author page.

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

See? I didn't think there were spoilers. Unless you count saying Elphaba's name. But that's not a spoiler either.