changelog @ tengrrl.com: Daily Work: Leaving a Character and Errands

My first day off of a four-day weekend. We need more Monday holidays. Even though I took vacation today, I ended up doing a bit of work. It's impossible not to really. Makes more sense to answer some e-mails then to let them wait. Reviewed a lesson plan that needs to be polished up a bit for a forthcoming MarcoGram (the free, themed, monthly newsletter that MarcoPolo sends out). I'll need to get that work done by the 22nd, which is their deadline for the issue. It's not too difficult, but an extra thing that I didn't plan to do. I'm going to work in one of my children and technology books, so at least it should be interesting to do.

To everyone's surprise, I showered, dressed, and left the house on a day off. I went to Target for some things that I needed now that I've switched out the old microwave. I still don't know how I'm going to get the old microwave out of the kitchen. It's so heavy :( There was also grocery shopping, and I needed to pick up prescriptions.

In my wandering around in Target, I found the new Carl Hiaasen book Flush in hardcover for 30% off—$13! I snapped it up, but haven't started reading it yet. I haven't been able to finish the book that I have been reading for weeks now, Donorboy by Brendan Halpin. Not for the normal reasons that someone doesn't want to finish a book. It's that I don't want it to end, so I've been throwing a sort of temper tantrum for weeks by not reading the last few pages. I don't want the characters to go away. It's the first young adult book with technology integrated that actually felt authentic. The text actually sounds like a journal written by a depressed, angst-ridden girl—full of run-ons and misstarted sentences and abbreviations that flow through the text rather than stand out like someone trying to be cool. I have really enjoyed it, and I just don't want the characters to go away. I guess I have to finish it eventually, but I can put it off for a few more days.

Friday, February 17, 2006