Lovely lovely party

Ah, last night was just lovely. One of the best birthday parties I've had, anxiety free, with lots of great booty.

( My birthday celebration )

In other news - finished Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnet - very interesting book. Discusses the pitfalls of using religion to excuse your actions. Although I think the villain in S3 Angel, Holtz may have been a little bit better written in complexity than Dunnett's religious villain. Not that the two are really that comparable.

Currently reading HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. Rowling really does remind me a bit of Ronald Dalh - a very light perky Dahl, but she has some of the same twinges of dark humor and snarkiness. Such as the town Harry's relatives living in being "Little Whinging" - hee! (Whinging means whining.) Sort of Ronald Dahl meets Frank L. Baum, I guess, with a twist of
SE Hinton. Really enjoying it. I've been grinning through the first few chapters. The lovely thing about historical novels (taking place in 16th century) and fantasy novels is that they are so distant from our world that I can fully escape into them. Novels that deal with issues that are literally close to my own as opposed to metaphorically, tend to depress me right now for some reason.

Oh for the musical aficionados out there - I now know who Tom Lehrer is - anom gave me a CD of his songs for my b-day.

Starting to get some good responses on my evil fanfic - thanks guys! You can find it in Friday's lj entry. Completely unbetaed - so it's bound to have mistakes. I'm working on Chapter's 3 and 4.
Been stuck on Chapter 3 for a while now. ( Read more... )