1. After my first full week of fall quarter, I highly resemble the above picture. I've been out of school for 4 months and my brain is just not in perfect school working order yet. I'm taking two classes this fall: a sociology class for my minor and a stats class for my Psych major. I really think that the soc class will be interesting and one big plus is that it meets two afternoons a week. Unfortunately, while my stats class is only one day a week, that one day is Saturday from 10-1:30 - ick! Looks like my next stats class for winter quarter will also be on Saturdays so I will have limited weekend time for the next 6 months.
2. Speaking of weekends, a good friend of ours was in town this weekend so we had dinner together at the Pink Door on Saturday night. As we were walking around after dinner, we passed by the Paramount Theater where Phantom of the Opera is playing until next weekend. Jeff mentioned that he really liked the show and thought about trying to get tickets for Sunday night's performance. Chris and I had never seen it so we decided to go as well. We ended up scoring great tickets for the Sunday afternoon matinee - about 10 rows from the stage on the main floor. Fun show - I'm not a huge fan of musicals but the production was really good.
3. I'm reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer about teenage vampires in the NW. Our book club had decided to read the first book, Twilight, for our October choice but since I was between books, I actually read it before our September meeting - oops! I'm now finishing up book 3, Eclipse, and I'll be starting the 4th book, Breaking Dawn, tomorrow. All in all, it's an entertaining read - not much depth but the books are page-turners. I'm looking forward to the Twilight movie opening this fall.
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OMG! I bought Twilight thinking I'd take all three weeks of my trip to finish the book. I finished it BEFORE we got to our first layover! I bought New Moon and Eclipse in London, and finished them by the fifth day of our vacation. I'm TOTALLY loving this series! I'm trying to find an English bookstore here in Venice so I can find Breaking Dawn.
Teenage vampire love FTW!! Hah.
OMG, I didn't know you hadn't seen Phantom yet! Heh.
Avitania - I just finished Eclipse and I'm trying to hold off on starting Breaking Dawn because I'm liking the series more with each successive book. I'm afraid I'll be bereft when I'm done with the 4th book :)
Nope - never seen Phantom. We are uncultured swine :)
Bev - Me too! I'm afraid I'll go through teenage vampire withdrawal once I'm done with Breaking Dawn. I found a copy of the book here, but it was 20 Euro! I may have to wait until London.
Avitania - if all else fails, I should be done with it by the time you get back :)
After the brain buster that was Reading Lolita in Tehran I'm all sorts of ready for something fluffy.
Good luck w/ your classes!
Tiffany- We actually had a really interesting discussion about the last book which made up for the fact that it was extremely hard to get through. Like you, however, I was ready for some fluff. I'll warn you that the Twilight books are addicting! I'm reading book 4 right now and I'll say that the last two books are much better than the first 2!
1. That weekend class sucks :( Grrr... life can be so unaccommodating sometimes!
2. Pink Door is always a good nice meal to catch. Never go wrong with that one. Phantom was great, despite the fact that I fell asleep a few times. Heh. The singing was sooo pretty and it was dark...
3. I don't understand this series. It has vampires, but a bunch of people don't die. Vampires kill people. Therefore the book should have lots of killing. Fail.
Bev, Love the pic on this post. Unfortunately I think I have the dumb 6 days out of 7 ;).
Lynchseattle, LOL. And Bev usually likes when people die in our books ;).
1. Love the picture.
2. Dude. Stats. On Saturday. SUCKS.
3. I'm afraid to even inquire about these "Twilight" books because I don't know that I want to get sucked into anything...let alone teenage vampires! Seriously that addicting??
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