Restless

I must have the Spring Break Blues, or Spring Fever 'cause I just can't sit still and get anything done. I had every intention of beginning Sookie Stackhouse #6 when I got home form work today but I just couldn't make myself sit down and read it. Then I was going to try and Crochet while watching a movie with my sister, but it was a movie I hadn't seen so I actually had to pay attention. Now I'm trying out the crochet thing again. I just feel the need to do something with my hands.
However, the book I'm using is a little off. It's called Creepy Cute Crochet and it's full of little monsters and things you can crochet, but I think the author uses her own shorthand for the stitches because I can't understand some of them.

Anyway, I think I'm going to take a break from vampire mystery/romance. At least until Lover Avenged! I bought this book at work today, it's called Into the Fire and it's by Suzanne Brockmann. It's very good from the few pages I was able to read while at work.

Today's song of the day:

Let me Fall(From Cirque du Sol - Josh Groban

Ugh... Fail.

I went on my break at work, all excited to start what I thought was the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series only to discover that it is in fact the seventh! I stopped reading at once, but still felt slightly foolish.
Oh darn! I guess that means another trip to the bookstore!
And speaking of bookstores, I'm so glad Borders has coupons now! I took one that I got today for 30% off and bought a Putumayo C.D. Putumayo is a record company that specializes in music from around the world. I have several of their C.D's already and was very excited to add their New Orleans album to my collection.
Today's song of the day is in honor of the Big Easy,

SPRING BREAK!!!!

The tests have been taken, the papers turned in and it's time to go on vacation!!! Well, some of us will go on vacation, others will go to work same as usual and work on the assignments our professors were kind enough to give us for the break :..(
I have two papers due the week we get back from spring break, can you believe it?! But don't fret! I do plan on having some fun while not in school. There is a college night at the local museum next Wednesday that I plan on going to, and of course sleeping in and catching up on my reading.



I plan on reading All Together Dead #7 in the Sookie Stackhouse books, and getting more into American G-ds by Neil Gaiman. I bought this book a while ago and what I've read is pretty good but my mind has been with vampires and shapeshifters!
Sinse the South is on my mind, todays song of the day pays tribute to the famous river of the South, the Mississippi.

Old Man River (Showboat) - Paul Robeson

Things Happened!!

Well, I didn't have my mid-term in history yesterday, due to an escaped prisoner on campus!!! It was all very exciting, everyone received texts or voice mail giving a description of the guy, and where he was last seen. The whole story is so stupid. The guy was being moved form Orlando to Tennessee to be tried for Larceny and the cop stopped at the Waffle House across the street from campus to get food. DUMB! Somehow the prisoner got out of the handcuffs, out of the car and onto campus. The good thing that came out of this is that all classes after 4:30pm were canceled, which meant that I didn't have to take my mid-term!!
So that was the exciting thing about yesterday. Oh! I was also slightly scarred by this movie we watched in Queering Pop-culture. It's called Sick and it's about an artist who had cystic fibrosis and was into S&M. It was extraordinarily graphic... I mean I really can' t put into words how high the ick factor was in this movie... in fact no more talking about it.
Today's song of the day is also a video, just 'cause I think the video is really cool!
Oh! I also am waiting with bated breath for the next book in J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series!! It's called Lover Avenged and it comes out at the end of April!!!!! (insert girlie squeal!!!!)

Dead Untill Dark

Well, I finished Dead Untill Dark. I really liked it; I think that Bill is a fun, new vampire character and Sookie is a different heroine. She is much more like an ordinary person, she works at a restaurant, lives with her grandmother and just wants to be accepted for who she is. She takes her relationship with Bill, a vampire, completely in stride. She doesn't try to change him or lie to herself about what he is. I can't wait to read the second book in the series and start True Blood. I hope that it is as good as the book!

My Queer Class

I am taking a queer class at Kennesaw University. The whole title is Queer Pop Culture and one of our assignments is to create a notebook full of queer things in pop culture.
Let me clear up queerness as I'm studying it. It's not necessarily gayness, although it does privilege gayness. Queerness is that which is disruptive and defies the norm. So, for example, HiFructose magazine would be queer. The art it represents is very avaunt garde, it doesn't fall with the normal rules of art and sculpture.
So anything that defies normal rules of society could be considered queer. It's really fun, actually. So I was thinking of other things in society that could be considered queer but nothing came to me.

But anyway, I have started reading Dead Until Dark. I've just been so curious about the TV show True Blood and I'm one of those people that has to read the book before I see the show or movie. This might prove to be a mistake because I did the same thing with Twilight and that was an interesting obsession. Oh well, whatever happens it's proving to be an interesting book.

Books

My addiction is books. No... really... it's kinda bad. I stay up late reading, read in class... if I could read at the dinner table I would.
Lately my genre of choice is Paranormal romance. I've read almost all of the Dark Hunter series, the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward and I've read three of Christine Feehan's Carpathian novels.
Now I know what your thinking... that all of those series books are the same. But not so. Especially the Black Dagger series. Ward does a great job of making each book unique, as does Sherrilyn Kenyon. However, I have to say that I'm slightly disappointed in Feehan's Carpathian novels. While her writing is delightful, I find the situation of each of the books to be the same, with no great difference between stories.
*sigh* Oh well, the search continues for another series to start on. Maybe I'll try changing genres now that I've read most of my favorite authors books...