Blueberry Art Festival (Minnesota)/Hummingbird Celebration (California)/Leprechaun Days (Minnesota)/Sunflower Festival (Michigan)/Tomato Festival (Tennessee)
2004-07-23 @ 11:52 p.m.

What are you supposed to say to your tutor when he starts going on about how your chair has feelings? Encourage him, naturally, so that more time gets wasted! I've just finished reading Chocolat, and I feel really sad now. The ending's so bittersweet. The whole chocolate thing is really fascinating though, and the downfall of the curé is deliciously wicked! I feel like working in a chocolaterie when I grow up. The whole experience just sounds so exotic and exciting. (Alliteration anyone?) The sinfulness of chocolate is very appealing right now. I'm feeling happy, thanks to the rush I get from lugging five new books around. In the order they were picked up: George Eliot's The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob, Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers Of Evil (parallel text version), Christopher Tolkien's The History Of Middle-earth Volume 2: The Book Of Lost Tales Part 2, Robert Jordan's The Wheel Of Time Book 4: The Shadow Rising, and David Best's The Judas Virus. The last one was an impulse buy, because the blurb at the back sounded interesting. Did you know that Kinokuniya surprisingly can be cheaper than Borders? I found out because I was comparing the prices of various Eliot novels. Neither of them had the edition of Middlemarch I want for its introduction. Mel's lent me Joanne Harris's second book, Blackberry Wine, so there'll be something to occupy me tomorrow and make the brief coexistence with Ms Ho in LT2 bearable. Good luck to the debaters for tomorrow!