Yeurgh...

I am so fucking tired.

I don't understand it. I get eight hours of sleep a night; I should not be this tired. And yet there is nothing more that I would like to do right now than crawl into bed. If you were to give me the last $3000 that I need for rent next year, plus another $5000 to do something with this summer, I'd probably take it, look at you bleary-eyed, and go home and crawl into bed. I'm not even sure I'd put in the effort to go to Waterloo and sleep there instead.

Sigh.

I'm also short on the money front. >.< My sister owes me $20 for Dad's Father's Day gift (a martini shaker and glasses, which he loved), but even that STILL doesn't push me up to the $700 I need for the past two weeks.

I could take my vacation pay early. Daddy gave it to me at the end of the summer last year, but in the interests of keeping the pay schedule that I calculated going...

Eh. I don't know.

I wish I had money to spend on myself.

Kushiel's Dart

Many, many thanks to Emerald, who I originally took the recommendation to read Kushiel's Dart from, and anyone else who urged me to get it. I'm making my way through the dénouement at the moment (a chapter or two left, at best), and... wow.

At first, it was very difficult to get into the language - I often have a problem with this, even in books like this that use 'real' English - but it became more natural to read after the first few chapters, and when the book finally picked up (Delaunay's arrival), I was hooked. Even so, I put it down for nearly a week, and then read the last half of it in the space of yesterday.

So, yeah. If anyone's looking for fantasy novels to read this summer, I'll pass on the recommendation (and the book, if you're willing to visit me to get it ;).

Also, it's fun to play Spot-the-Country/Spot-the-Religion/Spot-the-Language, since the world is basically the same as ours in medieval times, with a new twist on the traditional Judeo-Christian religion. I mean, some of the conversions are obvious (Yeshuites = Jews), but some are more difficult (quick! What's Tiberium supposed to be?).

Also, it is hot. So very, very hot.

Maybe I'll go to the library today and pick up some more books. It's been so long since I read this frequently...

Also, my mother picked up The Wee Free Men for me. Sadly, I already indulged in my Nac Mac Feegle love when it came out in hardcover.

If she returns it to get me a new book, what should I ask for? (I already have a complete Discworld collection.) I'm thinking Gaiman's Wolves in the Walls, if she can find it.

But if she can't, and for my library run, what should I pick up?

Problem with Exercising

Discovered today that the pain in my feet is actually blisters on the soles of my feet. Fun, by which I mean painful.

Sigh.