Well, it's been a while... and I was on such a good roll to with this blogger thing. But now it's been almost...actually over a month since I blogged. Bad me. *sigh* Oh well, I guess I'll catch up my nearly non-existant readers up on my life. I feel like I've really settled into to my job at the financial institution that-is-not-to-be-named. I call it that because that was a major issue the went through on our hiring back in April and then in our classroom training last month. We are not to say who we work for in any media setting. Not even just that we aren't supposed to talk to the media as an employee, which is par for the course for ANY place I've worked for, but we're not supposed to say where we work in any case. Examples used in class were if you won a radio or if you met someone new that you'd just met. No saying where you work, you're just supposed to say "I work at a Local Financial Institution". They're a bit paranoid because their old location was 500 yards from the world trade center, many of the long time employees (which in this place, means over a two years) where imported in from the NYC headquarters and were actually there on Sept 11th. I suppose they have a right to be paranoid. It's a little weird to deal with it on a day to day basis though. On the book front, once I was finished with all the Kushiel books I had to find something else to occupy my time. I was emailed a couple of suggestions, one being the Anita Blake books by Laurel K. Hamilton. I still haven't read those, and I'll tell you why. I had a series of friends get sucked into them one by one. All said the same thing, they lost like a week or two of time where they read each book of hers one after the other, sometimes having to make emergency runs to the open late bookstores like Borders or Barnes and Nobles to get the next one. I called them Book-Crack. You can't stop with just one. I do intend to read them...eventually. But only when I have all of them, and a weekend to spare to just read am I going to delve into them. 'Cause I know me, nothin' else is gonna get done if they are even half as good as everyone says. So instead I read a book a friend recommended to me a long time ago, a book called "Strands of Starlight" by Gael Baudino. It was ok, but it was too political and preachy for me. The friend of mine who recommended it likes those kinds of things, people who right about high ideals, radical politics, feminisim, etc... personally, I find a lot of the issues in this book were made to black and white. The Church people where Evil, people who didn't respect women were Evil, only elves were good because the worshiped a female god, and come to think of it, most of the humans, if not evil, where portrayed as simple and easily swayed. *shakes head* it was just too black and white for me. I also read a great series of mysteries-comedies by Janet Evanovich, One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deady, Four to Score, High Five, and Seven Up. All lent to me by a very nice lady at work. A bunch of the women at work are passing them back and forth and seem really surprised that I can get through them in just a couple of days. I read all of those in the past month, they're really great. They're just so engaging that I can't not blast through them. They're about a woman name Stephanie Plum, who after she gets laid off as a lingerie buyer for a discount department store becomes a bounty hunter for her cousin Vinny after she finds out that the filing job he'd offered her was taken. There is just something about the way Evanovich writes that is just so funny and suspenseful at the same time... and man, Grandma Mauzer, Lula, Morelli, Bob the dog and Ranger are just such an unbelievable cast of characters and she makes them so REAL. I can't wait for Hard Eight, it just came out in paperback. there is also a new one in hard cover, To the Nines. Evanovich has gotten into a bad habit in the past couple of books though, leaving a person on a cliff-hanger on the last page. Oh, the main story is all wrapped up and everything... its just some little thing that she leaves as a tease on the last page. VEEEEERY good hook, I know it keeps me wanting more. The past weekend was relaxing. Spent my time getting Red Butterfly up and going. Also added my links section finally, now if I can only get people to add links to it. *sigh* Last weekend was crazy. Spent the weekend saving other people. Got my friend Lynn, who started a web design company without knowing how to make webpages, out of the fire by making the band "Savin Grey" a website in a weekend. It's not up to my usual standards, but not bad for two days work. (not even really, it was friday and sat night). Then Sunday I helped my friend Shelly move. Ugh. Oh well, it was one weekend gone. And seeing as it's almost 12 now, here is another one gone... I've been working long enough now that I can say again... but I don't wanna go to work tomorrow. Oh well, it's not so bad. I've had worse, and honestly, the job at the financial-institution-that-is-not-to-be-named just keeps getting better, not worse. Oh well...best be off to bed.