Today has been. Very stressful. I started my very first 9-5 desk job today (data entry, Canadian Cancer Society), quit smoking (grounds to be fired, because the Canadian Cancer Society is not hypocritical, which I can respect, sort of, but not right now), and found out I don't have guaranteed housing at U of T. So. Tomorrow morning there's more work, and calling the residence coordinator during my lunch break. TOO MUCH STRESS FOR SUMMER.

At work, though, I learned how to merge documents, which is helpful, and that there is not only a city in Ontario called Porcupine, there is a city called South Porcupine. Which is not as helpful, nor was addressing a letter to Mr. Dyke, but oh, did it make my day better.

But. Reviews.

( Mostly albums, and the first film I've ever walked out on )

Later: review of Leonard Cohen's concert when I'm not dead tired, and review of The English Patient once I finish it up. And. Other stuff. Idk.

Tags: film, into the rabbit hole, music

Anyone else on goodreads? I tend to skim a lot of the reviews, because I am on a huge, huge book kick, but I've come across this trend which is possibly the funniest thing on earth? Woman, typically 20-40, typically from Utah (but sometimes Arizona!), tend to write reviews like this:

"I began reading this book today. It wasn't long before I came to a descriptive scene of intimacy. I think the storyline had potential and the author had a good command of humor. Why did the author ruin it with vulgarity? I will not be finishing this book."

That, ftr, is for the Time Traveller's Wife, which I read when I was fourteen? And the thing is, I hadn't hit my 'explicit books' yet, at least, outside of fic, and I probably would have remembered something truly explicit. But seriously, these reviews, if they're not wringing their hands over sex, tend to go "the author used the f-bomb!" or "the language was vulgar, I had to stop reading!" and I just. Really, Mormons, really?

IDK, I'm pretty...non-religious in general (uber Catholic family on all sides, including my stepmother's family and my mother's fiancee's family, though), but seriously, no drinking, no caffeine, no swearing, no sex in books. That's. Rigid.

In kind of distressing news, though, most of those women are stay at home mothers, and there's this, like, 24 year old mother of three. And the structure doesn't really deviate from that. It's sort of upsetting.

In other Mormon news, almost a year after I first realized it, it still cracks me up that three of the Mormons in the music business are named Brendon, Brandon (Flowers, The Killers), and Branden (Steineckert, The Used). If one was to write a very Mormon threesome, just how difficult to understand would it be? Very, I say.

Tags: books, religion

I went to take a nap at five last night? And set my alarm for six. And somehow just woke up at two. So I am extremely out of sorts, and extremely sorry to itchyloon. And pretty exhausted. But! I was thinking of a once a week "Look what I'm listening to! And watching! And reading!" and I might as well do this now, so.

In the past week or so:

( Palahniuk, Empires, Phantom Planet etc etc )

Tags: books, into the rabbit hole, music
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Murder By Death--Devil in Mexico