apes, knaves, and rogues

While I was at the bookstore today, enjoying the heck out of some tea (of which i have an ever deepening appreciation for, thanks to the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) I saw some interesting books.

• Acorna’s Revenge Rebels by Anne McCaffrey

Seriously! After seeing the subtitle, i thought for sure that this book had been written by my friend Rocky:

• The further adventures of Unicorn Girl? Unicorn Girl Strikes Back?
• Unicorn Girl goes to Washington? Unicorn Girl and the Temple of Doom? Unicorn Girl rides a bike?
• The Neverending Unicorn Girl? Unicorn Ninja!
• American Unicorn 3!

She doesn’t even look like a unicorn girl in on the cover! I mean, where’s the horn, eh?
then, i chanced immediately upon another book, and thought for sure it was a Hegaman conspiracy...

• Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card. 

Recreational Coffee

Yesterday, was the first recreational use of just your old straight coffee for me in quite some time. ages really.
And I’d like to note how the strongest of emotions goes with the impossiblest of situations.  Perhaps I will be able to reconcile the two together, but as always, it seems impossible.
I picked up the works of Jonathan Edwards, and will be enjoying those next summer. I also picked up the three set work of N.T. Wright.
Those should keep me busy when I find some time to read.
I’m probably going to go back to Idaho after I graduate. Although I am desirous to go to Salem.
Then sometime in the future I will go back to school. 

The Burnination is over!

The two week spree of victims charred by the spa of 112° has finally come to an end.
Onlookers noticed the swath cut by the 'spa of total devastation,' as a line of charred, burninated, scathed, and scalded spa-goers.
One brave spa goer attempted to withstand the ever-heated waters, but all accounts of that individual seem to indicate that he ended up in the sanitarium.

Pyromania

There was this awesome sunset last thursday. It was by far the best sunset I have seen in Kalifornia. It was great, the whole sky looked like it was on fire. Perhaps it was some sort of foreshadowing of the aweful fires that are now raging across upperclass hillside neighborhoods.

The fires here in California are approaching the valley where I live. They are about to crest the hill that surrounds our valley. It reminds me alot of the foothills fire in Boise back in 1992. It is pretty interesting, as this fire has burned around the valley almost a third of a circumference.

I feel happy...

 There is a pile of laundry that has taken over my bed. I am kindof tired, and would like to go to sleep, but i am scared of making any sudden movements that might otherwise spook this gentle giant. I have been sick for the last couple of days. I initial thought it was a food allergy, then I thought it was bronchitis. Then i moved on to pneumonia, and SARS, and now i think it's a hybrid mix of cold/bronchitis. I'm feeling better, although i occasionally have headaches, and my head pretty much is on the verge of spontaneous explosion. Well, it's not that bad, but i'll be happy if I get better.

The manager finally had the people that lived in our spot before us move out. How's that work? Well, they switched apartments, see... but they kept their parking spots. So, for two years, we've been hoofing it from the far end of the garage... until now. However, we needed to move our stuff that was in our storage to the new one. Well, someone else at our complex mustof notice that the aforementioned people moved out, and they slapped their padlock on it (it was not left there, but appeared). Anyway, the manager made it disappear, and i moved all the stuff today, since the replacements for said people move in this weekend.

There is a universe burning down next door to me

There was a big fire in the apartment building across from ours on monday. I heard the ringing of the alarm out of my window and thought it was a car alarm. As I walked around to our porch to investigate, i mention to my roommate that 'the building next door was burning down.' As it turned out, I was correct!

Anyway, I took some photos of the whole ordeal. Complete with two movies. One was of the firetruck's ladder extending. The other was smoke pouring from the building. Everybody was safe, in the end. Although I am now feeling sick (probably unrelated). It could be smoke inhalation, but i think it is more along the lines of a cold.

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