Jul 08 2009
My strategy for saving the environment/keeping my electric bill low this summer has been simple – I’ve been avoiding looking up the kanji on the eakon remote. That way, I don’t know how to switch it from heat to air conditioning! So I don’t.
But I’ve been doing kanji flashcards the last couple weeks, and today I kind of glanced at the remote and went, “Oh, I guess it’s that button.”
So now the air conditioner’s on.
Jul 07 2009
Screw the stupid Edgeworth game – what the world needs is a game where Lamiroir and Machi solve crimes.
I will also accept fanfic.
No, people, just think about this for five seconds. This would be incredible.
(Cut for spoilers for everything.)
Jul 04 2009
They put Mr. Wow in with Zuzu, Cookie, and Princess. It’s been a month now, and things are finally settling down. It turns out Mr. Wow is very vain? I knew that, and was mentally prepared for the likelihood that he’d be somewhat less cute in a situation where he’s got to share attention with three other kids, two of whom are capable of giving him some competition. Still, I’m a little sad to be disillusioned.
He has kind of a crush on Cookie, which is good, because it means he mostly does what Cookie does, and Cookie mostly does what I say. Unfortunately, I’ve still had to spend a lot of time keeping Mr. Wow in line, which means Zuzu and Princess have felt left out. Princess lets me know this by poking my boobs. Zuzu lets me know by means of fabulously sulky poses – slouching in the tiny chairs with her arms crossed, her legs jutting out, and her lower lip extended. I know, Zuzu. I know.
Thanks to Mr. Wow’s behavior and one of their classes falling on a vacation day last month, they didn’t learn all the monthly curriculum, which bugs me. Before, Mr. Wow could usually learn all the curriculum in two weeks, and Cookie and Zuzu usually had everything down by the third week – we can do better than this. It really is true about small class sizes. I think it’ll be okay this month, though I can see I’m going to have to be a little harsher on silliness than I used to be.
Jul 02 2009
I feel slightly uncomfortable about making this post, but it’s been sitting in my drafts since April and I’m just going to do it.
This book is really similar to Sarah Monette’s Melusine. Really similar, I mean. The narrative structure’s similar, the protagonists are similar, the setting’s similar, the MacGuffins are similar. And though they do refer to different things, two proper names are duplicated.
This is not easy for me to ignore.
Beyond that: I don’t recommend this book, because everything that sounds promising about it it screws up. I don’t buy one of the central relationships, I only half-way buy the other, the denouement is kind of a mess, and the Chinese are sneaky.
Details (containing spoilers for Havemercy and both Melusine and The Virtu) under the cut: Continue reading “Havemercy, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett”
Jul 01 2009
Pork chop and cream cheese sandwich.
Jul 01 2009
Cut for length.
(Edited to add summaries, which I forgot before.)
