Make it last...

LAST DAY OF WORK!!!! Woo hoo!! It has been great working here... A few complaints but nothing worth mentioning right now. Overall, it's been a great experience and I have met a lot of great people (who I hope to stay in contact with) and read a lot of great books. Of course, I guess I could have done that last one anywhere... *laugh*

Like I said before, I like change. I really looking forward to doing new things:

1. Working out and eating right. I really have got to get in shape and start taking care of myself. I'm getting older by the minute... by definition.
2. Working on some of the projects I keep meaning to. I need to get back to writing, learning things, doing extra library and philosophy stuff. You know, my usual story.
3. Growing up. Living in an apartment, no matter how old I am, just feels like being not-quite-grown-up to me. I want a house. I need a house. I need to be a neato adulty type person.

That's about it. There's billions more, but I've got to get back to work and finish my last day. Hopefully I'll be able to come back here and keep regularly adding entries but if you don't see anything new for a while, don't worry. I'll just be moving or something. Seeya!

Done reading -- so far...

Finished "The Graveyard Game" by Kage Baker just this morning. I had speed read two thirds of the book from last night to this morning so that I could have it finished to return today.

It's an excellent fourth book in this series. I had originally thought that this was the last book but there is one more out now and another that is yet to be published so I've still got a way to go. Given the ending of the third one, "Mendoza in Hollywood", where Mendoza finds herself arrested and banished Back Way Back to 153000 BCE, despite the mentioned but not fully satisfactory lack of her presence in the present, Joseph and Lewis are attempting to track her, and several other immortals, down. This book is full of self-described James Bond espionage by some who know how and some who don't. Despite a very futile seeming struggle to reach the truth throughout the book, it ends on a very promising and hopeful note. Looking forward to the fifth book, whatever that is. (Not looking it up at the moment. Not very librarianly of me, is it?)

Ends justify the beginnings...

Second last day of work... So much to do and now the day is over. I only have time for the absolutely necessary stuff. Oh well. It'll be good to be done. I like change. I like the idea of moving on to another job, another place, other people, other things to do, other things to see... Change, change, change. It's cool.

I finished the third Kage Baker book, "Mendoza in Hollywood". It went back to Mendoza as the first person narrator and takes place in 1862 (I think) where Hollywood will eventually be. The story is actually really short, having an incredibly long introduction, setting up the charactersm, the setting, and the situation and then just throwing us into the real point of the plot: the "reincarnation" of the Englishman that Mendoza fell in love with in the first book (and then watched burn at the stake) has impossibly come into the picture as virtually the same person with a similar (if not secular) doom. This sets us up for the fourth in the series, which I am reading now, in which Joseph and Lewis (friends of Mendoza) quietly struggle against the Company to find out where she has been banished to after flipping out in a rage after her lover dies a second time.

So, how's about you?