Red Rose Festival/Iced Tea Day/Mourn For Your Money Day/Write To Your Father Day/Race Unity Day
2007-06-10 @ 8:52 p.m.

Finally bought my textbook! So it's time to start on the essays. About two weeks to go, give or take. I hope we get an extension on the one for AP101, because that's the one I foresee having trouble with. Started reading Michael Smith's The Giro Playboy, which the blurbs on the back hail as a "British beat classic for the twenty-first century", having "already drawn comparisons with Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson". You'd have thought that would have put me off, but I've decided that I've been too hasty in my rejection of Kerouac, which I'm sure will please Yi-Xun if he ever finds out. So yeah, it's the kind of novel that probably irritates people like Eugene and Thong, but I have rather broad tastes, so I kind of like The Giro Playboy. If anything, the illustrations are quirky. Read the opening chapter of Teranesia yesterday, and I didn't really like it. It should get better, because Egan's a great writer, and I was glad to discover yesterday that Woodlands Regional Library has quite a few of his novels, basically everything else the NLB has in its collection that I haven't read yet. Time to head down to Woodlands!

This week:

Automotive Service Professionals Week

Flag Week