Taniith’s Relto

I finished the last book. I won’t give any spoilers, but I will say that I was disappointed. With 1-6, I felt increasingly more drawn into the story. Hell, I was pretty torn up at the end of book 6! As I read this one, I felt myself being more and more drawn OUT of the story… I only finished it because I wanted to know what happened, not because I felt a connection, or whatever, to the story.

Not that it is a bad book; it is a perfectly good book, just not the best ending of a much better series.

Thats all I wanted to say.
-K

Don’t worry, I won’t give any spoilers. I just had a funny experience to relate to you about my first night reading the book (almost to page 200). So there I was reading the book, when I got to a certain part and found myself screaming at the book in my best Dalek voice. I would tell you what I said since it wont really give anything away, but I’m afraid of getting yelled at…

Oh what the hell, I’ll put it in spoiler tags after the “more” button, hows that for hiding something that isn’t even a spoiler?

But before I make the more button, I also want to relate another funny story. I was watching this show on Food Network this morning called Dinner Impossible, which has this brittish cook who has to do insane amounts of cooking in very little time (12,000 hors derves in 17 hours with no warning?). So, this guy looks a LOT like Christopher Eccleston… and he sounds a lot like him too (he must be from the north, eh?)! So hearing this Eccleston-esque guy barking commands at people as though his life depended on it really reminded me of watching the 9th doctor. I’m just glad Rose wasn’t there… she just kinda sucks.

Anyway, on to the more button!
(more…)

Well that was certainly a stressful situation (hence the title… stay with me here people). So for those that don’t know (why do I bother?), my mother has a bad knee and is having knee surgury later this summer. So as you can imagine, shoe has started walking around with a cane and generally isn’t doing to great walking-wise.

Now, bing the selfless jewish mother that she is (or something like that), she decided to make me some pulled pork this weekend. Today (a little over a half hour ago) she called me up to say she was going to bring it over with some other stuff. So I waited, waited some more, got worried and called her house, waited some more, etc. After about a half hour, I decided something was amiss and was afraid that maybe she had slipped on the stairs and couldn’t get up or something. So I left a note on the door in case she showed up, grabbed my keys, and headed to the garage. And of course, as I was in the middle of turing around in the driveway to pull out, she pulls in. Turns out she took so long because she decided she should go buy some rolls and BBQ sauce for me too. *sigh*

Oh well, we had a good laugh over it. Never let it be said that she doesn’t care, eh? I know I (and she, and the rest of the familly) will be happy when her knee ordeal is over… which is of course AFTER she flys out to a big wedding in a week. *sigh again*

On another note, I have some boasting to do. You see, a lot of people I know (and millions more I don’t of course), pre-ordered the new Harry Potter book from Amazon.com, and they payed money to make sure it would be sitting on their doorsteps yesterday morning. I personally didn’t care when it came because I have stuff I need to do before I have time to read it anyway, so I used Amazon’s super duper free shipping thing (as usual). Low and behold, mine showed up yesterday morning anyway (though I didn’t realize till today because it was hidden to the side of the door). So I payed the same as everyone else for the book, but didn’t have to deal with going to a store OR paying for shipping.

Take that!

-K

So apparently you should always make sure that you have eaten recently before seeing a doctor, and definately make sure you have had a fair amount of fluids. As the woman at the blood lab said, “a doctor tends to take something out of you, so make sure you put something in before they take something out.”

All of this information I was given after *mostly* fainting while they were drawing blood just now. Lets see if I can count all the times this has happened… There was the time it happened in the middle of my sister’s wedding, the time it happened in the middle of Algebra II, and I’m pretty sure there’s another time it happened this severly. Of course, I’ve had the whole ‘heading towards fainting’ thing happen a fair few other times. Oh well, at least this time they gave me a free lunch and paid for my parking garage ticket ;D.

I have to say though, the more I’ve been thinking about modern medicine and all these specialists and what not, the more convinced I become of the fact that the human body generally sucks. We think we’re so evolved and such a marvel and such great species, and yet we have to go to all these doctors who are really just guessing at what the problem actually is. They don’t know! They kinda make a few guesses, and then they throw some pills at you or start cutting you up and taking out your blood and organs and what-not. You don’t see animals opening practices for each other in the jungle do you? If we were really so great as a species, our bodys would be able to fix themselves; we wouldn’t need teeth to be sealed or pulled, we wouldn’t need blood tests or immunizations, they wouldn’t have to shove stuff into every possible hole to try to figure out whats wrong… hell, they wouldn’t even have a job because we wouldn’t need anyone mucking about in our bodies!

And I still want to know what happened to that hypospray-esque device I read about five to eight years ago that was supposed to replace needles?! Can someone get on that please?

*sigh* I guess my dad was right; maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to make dinner plans after this doctor appointment. Funny how a simple consultation can turn into fainting, aint it?

-K

Well, I have to say that that episode of Doctor Who certainly fits with it being Friday the 13th…. not exactly my favorite though.

I’m sort of split on the Back to the Future reference, but I definately did not like all the Harry Potter references. *Maybe* the “just wait till you read the seventh book” on, but other than that, not so much. Also, when is he going to stop pouting over Rose and get on with things?! Its getting to be a bit much.

Oh, and at the end with the Queen… why did he say he didn’t know what he did? Wasn’t that the same queen that he and Rose dealt with in the Warewolf story last year? You know, the one who started Torchwood? Is he just faining ignorance, does he really not get it, or am I confusing my British royalty?

Oh well… at least the effects are better than the first doctor (kinda).

-K

Ok, so I’m not writing the poast I said I would write… bear with me.

Now then, I keep a log of any interesting conversations I have over AIM. This has come in handy from time to time when I want to clarify something someone said, or just for the fun of seeing what I (and others) were pre-occupied with at the time. So, while I was copying one of my main folders (aplty named ‘Repository’… thank you very much Ancients ;p), I ended up looking through some of those old chat logs.Interestingly, I now learned that a bad choice I made a while back (not *that* kind of bad choice people! Come on.) was actually not entirely my fault. It turns out I was against the idea at the time, but a friend of mine ended up convincing me otherwise (though somehow I don’t think this person has the faintest idea that they were the reason things played out the way they did). I guess now I know to be a little more warry about what that person suggests. Like I said though, these logs can make for interesting reads almost two years later.

Oh, and like I kinda said above, remember to keep that in context. When I say “bad choice,” I don’t mean something totally out of character like drinking or drugs or, you know, acting ;p (not that I’m not referring to something out of character, .. just that… oh, you get the picture).

Ok, I think I’m starting to confuse myself with vagueness and double/tripple negatives. Time to go to sleep.

-K

Oh, to count all the ways a certain college has screwed up so far…. and I’m not even there yet!

It I can pull myself together, I’m going to try to make a poast about this fiasco. Just gotta scedule it between the blendless IK/FK switch, building the bookcase, doctors and dentists and other stuff type appointments, and Doctor Who (woot!). At least I managed to build the chair today, eh?

I bet you’re all confused, eh? Just wait, it will all make sense soon (or not…).

-K