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Well, while

thanis_bloodsto are enjoying tasty eats at

yaqui's house, I am stuck here at work. Perhaps this can be to advantage, for maybe this time they will have manged to learn the rules to Lord of the Rings Risk and can thus teach me.

Schedules have worked out the past two days that Mel-chan and I have been able to enjoy much quality cuddle time and we have needed it. It also looks like we'll have the pleasant treat of being on the same schedule together for the next few days as some last-minute shuffling at her work means she'll be working nights. Although it complicates our weekend plans a little bit, it is still a pleasant change from our usual routine of one of us getting home from work as the other is getting ready to leave.

I wish L5R Lotus Edition would hurry up and come out already. The previews of the new cards have me writhing in anticipation. I could mock up proxy cards and use them until Lotus is actually available, but I'm too lazy. Just release the darn set already and give me toys to play with!

*ahem*

I'm getting very good at reading two novels at a time these days. All in all, I think I'm finally becoming the kind of fast, dedicated reader I've always wished I could be. Anyway, just started Stephen King's The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The latter seems to be continuing everything I liked about Goblet of Fire and I am thus far amazed at how seemlessly J.K. Rowling manages the transition from "children's" writing to more serious, somber fare while keeping her characters, world, and the story's tone so very consistent. With this book I'm finally starting to appreciate just how ambitious a project the Harry Potter books really are and the immense pressure she must be under as a writer to maintain their quality. As for the former, it really makes me wonder why I ever stopped reading Stephen King. I devoured his novels in my early teens, but then just up and quit. I think I fell prey to the propaganda that often arises among successful writers: that they're "sellouts" because they're successful, that serious fiction fans don't read Stephen King, etc. Well, I am, as they say, so over that now. The Dark Tower series takes all the elements I love about his writing (namely his ability to capture the sense of desolation, isolation, and imminent apocalyptic doom,) and concentrates it into a single massive dose. I'll admit, I do have some issues with his writing, but it's the same issues I have with all his works, and this particular volume of Dark Tower is the first time in all the years that I have found King's ceaseless self-referencing to be gratingly annoying; most likely because he approaches it with none of the subtelty of his other works. But as I'm only a hundred pages in, I will reseve judgement as he is quickly becoming notorious for making me hate things, then making me love them once I read a little farther.

So that's what I've currently got my nose burried in when it's not burried in the Whedonverse. I've got to say, whoever thought of that Firefly quote meme needs to be kissed and pleasured. Scrolling down my friends list today and seeing it glowing with Firefly quotes like, well, like so many fireflies just made my day. Friday cannot come fast enough. I'm pretty much just killing time until the Serenity premier. I can't recall the last time I was this excited about a movie premiere. I think The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was probably the last time I was this into the whole experience. That experience was marred by personal unhappiness. I'm looking to Serenity to make up for it. And make up for it, it shall. After all, they can't take the sky from me :)