Went to Chapters last Tuesday and bought 3 books. At home, I was browsing the Chapters website and lo and behold, one particular book which I had paid $31 for, was only $20 on their site D: I placed an order for the books I bought (except I ordered one as a hardcover instead) and saved like $14 and returned the bought ones. Spending over $39, I got free shipping (4-9 business days) and since they were all in stock, they should've shipped in 24hrs. They didn't ship until after 24hrs, but they ended up in my mailbox the day after they shipped 8D

This time I bought Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart, Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem and James Palmer's The Bloody White Baron. I need to take a break from Murakami for a while. I finished Sputnik Sweetheart last night and was just kinda irked at the end. I read one review that said, 'isn't he tired of writing the same book?' and it's so true. All his books are so similar that by the eighth one, I found myself annoyed more than enjoying it :( A book about Khubilai Khan is going to be re-printed for November and when that comes out I might also order the lone book on Sübeedei. That book has mediocre reviews, though. Actually, so does the one on Khubilai. Maybe I'll order John Man's book on Khubilai too, then.

Music wise, still lots of stuff I'm listening to; new and old. I might start a music post 'er something. I was listening to Tracy Chapman's first album when I was cleaning my room, but I had to switch to something else 'cause it was too depressing lol.

My German is pretty terrible now. I was trying to read something recently and couldn't really get through yet, but yet there were so many words from the vocabulary I learned. Ugh.

Blaaargh, I wish I was back in New York ;_;

...What a boring entry. I guess I just felt like writing.

Today was my dog's birthday. The big 1-2. Poor thing, all she does is sleep all day. Hopefully that preserves her lol.

Ya know, for Family Guy being such a hilarious show, American Dad is terrible. I've seen it a handful of times when nothing else has been on and I never laugh.

I finished Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood tonight. Honestly, I was pretty bored for about the first half, but after that it was excellent. The story really surprised me, and the characters all had a lot of backstory and defining personalities. Yeah, I wasn't expecting a lot of what happened. Another great read. Actually, it's a pretty dark novel. Not like his others are fun times, but I felt this one really was like that. As I was reading, there's this part where Toru mentioned how he went to see Naoko in the hospital years before and recalls the oleanders and I immediately thought of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. That story in the short-story book is also about Toru.

Next to read is Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World: Equiptment, Combat Skills, and Tactics. I was stoked to find that *_*

I started drivers ed this weekend. Biggest waste of time ever? I'm seriously not taking in anything I'm being 'taught'. We just get work sheets that we either use books to answer, or stuff from the Drivers Handbook (which was like 8 months ago. Who remembers that!?). I have a test Saturday, but I have no notes. That should be fun. I also have to miss three 8 hour shifts at work for this shit D:

Speaking of work, I started working at a second branch, but only for June, I believe. They have two other pages, but the library's messy when I get in there and it's all out of order. What the hell do the other two do? I hate people who do stuff half-assed. Like, it's your job; just do it.

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I just came across on hell of a band name: Rβinθn. And you are supposed to pronounce that how? Let's treck through this, shall we? R-ss-i-n-th(voiceless)-n. Yikes.

My German professor gave the class a site to check out and she made it sound really cool: Step into German. It's not. The design of the site's pretty atrocious and the content's boring.

I got my orders this week. First came my Sora to ito singles. Blargh. I ended up liking Sora to ito more than I thought I would, but it's not like I love it or anything. There's gayness that can't be excused. The other two tracks blow. Especially the Satochi song... Kika-something. At least Kanariya is good for a few listens. DVD's nothing special, either. Live performances are good and MUCC speak some English. I have growing concern and disappointment with the direction they're heading/have been going. I have high hopes for the album though.

I also ordered a DVD called Making of Mongol from YesAsia to use up my coupon. It's region free and 70mins and only cost like $20US. It was pretty interesting. Asano Tadanobu showed all his lines written out in katakana so he could learn them. Him and the guy who played Altan (I want to say) seem to have gotten along really well lol.

I finished Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun yesterday. Great book, as usual; I've never read one that's disappointed me. I hope he writes more short stories though ♥

Ugh, today was just one of those boring, nothing-exciting-happened days at work. I shelf read for way too long and really didn't put much away. And of course, they did the return box late, so I couldn't get it all put away D:

omg I love this video and I'm not even much of a PV person. It's simple looking, but so cool... except the part of her in the white dress. As soon as I saw it, I put it on my iPod.


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( Another meme. This one I stole from thursdaie's last.fm )