I've been living on my own for three months now and I'm amazed at the improvement it has had on my social life. I feel as if I've spend more time with my friends than before (especially Gert/Othalla who has been here, four, five times now in three months and before that two times at my parent's place in all of three and a half years we know each other).
Speaking of Othalla, he came by Wednesday and we had a fun day and evening sitting in the sun taking a walk (he)/cycling (me) and playing scrabble. Finally, late in the evening we did the dishes and sat down again to talk and he missed the 23:30 bus. No problem we figured as last time he was here there was a 00:30 bus as well. So, about an hour later, we were standing at the busstop waiting. And waiting. And waiting but no bus. So Gert went to take a look and goes like "it says here, 00:29". So we waited some more. And more. I then went to take a look and couldn't help laughing as Othalla had been looking at the Saturday schedule...
I said to him he had two options, take a cab or sleep over. So, long story short, a little while later, I was up in the attic taking down the spare mattress and sleeping bag and pillow.
Now then, Equilism. It's almost election time again. This Saturday they will start and I am going to run for president. I'm looking forward to it but at the same time it scares the hell out of me, and it's just a game... Well, not really, it's very important to me but still...
But, until Saturday, I'm still the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and as such I wrote a draft statement concerning The West Pacific and outlined my election program points. I won't be creating a pre-made speech out of that though. I will write my initial candidate post from the heart at that moment incorporating my outlined plans/ideas.
I also found another meme that's fun! It's called Six Degrees of Booking (can't quite remember where I found it) and is about linking six books in your bookcase together.
I'll start with the last book I finished,
Saturn 3, a novelization of the movie of the same name (which is where the link leads to). The movie is from 1980 starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett as the good guys and Harvey Keitel as the bad guy. It apparently is a really bad movie, having been nominated for Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Kirk Douglas) and Worst Actress. The novelization was written by Steve Gallagher.
This reminds me of David Gallagher, actor in the dramaseries 7th Heaven where he plays a character called Simon. Which in turn reminds me of Simon & Schuster, the publisher of (among other things) Star Trek Books. Leading eventually to the second book, the last Star Trek book I read
Articles of the Federation, written by Keith DeCandido. The book basically details a year in the life of the president of the United Federation of Planets and I
it.
Keith DeCandido also writes Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-in novels which brings me to the book
What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide by Jana Riess. I don't actually own this book myself, I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend when I was in the UK. However, I did read it myself and it's actually quite fun. A sort of mellow self help book extensively referencing BtVS.
This makes me think of the Buffy episode "Once More With Feeling" and iits soundtrack (which I have). That, in turn, makes me think of other sound tracks I have, including two LOTR ones. So, fourth book is The Lord of the Rings. No link as I assume everyone knows it, either having it read it or because of the movies. Or even just having heard of it.
The fifth book, lead on by the orcs in Tolkien's work, is
Grunts by Mary Gentle. A very fun fantasy book where the orcs are the main characters this time. They are always the underdog in wars as Good always has to win and they're unhappy with that but unable to change it. Until they stumble upon new, fancy, 20th century, weapons and actually get their act together and resemble an army.
All this talking about war leads me to the sixth and final book,
A History of Warfare by John Keegan which is one I haven't actually read yet as I have it more as a reference/research book when/if I need it.
So, that's it for now. See you next time.
Currently listening to: Lazlo Bane - Superman
