…but I’m not tired.
I feel like a 6 year old.
Stupid day-off schedule.
Wait. Strike that. Stupid DAY ON schedule.
Today I finished reading:
It’s late and I should be trying to sleep so I will attempt to be brief.
I really enjoyed it. I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite book I’ve ever read or anything, but I definitely recomend it to fans of sci-fi. This book is a companion novel to Scalzi’s ‘Old Man’s War’ series, told from the perspective of the adopted daughter of the series’s main character. The story starts when 15 year old Zoe and her family get the chance to be part of a colozination effort on another world. They will be the first group to colonize that do not originate on Earth, but rather are taken from a number of different galactic colonies…but when the ship jumps to their new home, it ends up in the wrong place, and the colonists are being hunted by a dictorial general that doesn’t want humans colonizing anywhere.
The I felt that there were a few areas where the book was a little lean on information, that there were some tidbits glossed over — especially in retrospect…but on the other hand, the story was being told through the eyes of a girl in her teens, from a first-person perspective, so there would be plenty that she didn’t know, didn’t see or didn’t deem important. The story was about HER experience, her status as a near religious symbol to an alien race, her emotional attachments to family and friends and her gaining maturity and having to grow up over the course of a couple years. The book was interesting and fast paced enough that it kept me reading, and had good enough character development that I cried a couple times. I really enjoyed it and If anything, I think the missing pieces have created a desire in me to give the ‘Old Man’s War’ series a try and find out what was going on in the grown-up world.
Finally saw Iron Man tonight. Awesome as promised. Well written, real physics and a scientist actually trying out his invention and playing with it to work out the kinks.
night. Crazy wind, and I mean CRAZY…spiders all trying to come inside for shelter. I waited all night for us to loose power, but aside from dropping for a minute at one point, and the occasional flicker, it stayed on. The rest of the area, however, was not so lucky. I guess that large portions of Pittsburgh and the surrounding area are w/o electricty and might continue to be so until Wednesday.
and 
…I’d had valentines day up since february, so I thought it was time to move to something more autumn-y.
