satis bene.

[dreamingpixels]

This was a good birthday. I got all the OMG IMPORTANT work done that I needed to, I had cake for breakfast and tortellini for dinner (my favorite, with Bryan's amazing alfredo sauce), and lots of people wished me happy birthday. (Chelsea wished me happy birthday every 5 minutes while she was tutoring, haha) Bryan also surprised me with a can of french fried onions (an unhealthy but delicious treat) and string cheese (we ran out two days ago, and I need my string cheese!). I also got my first Paperback Swap book in the mail (http://www.paperbackswap.com, if anyone's interested), Dead Until Dark by Charlane Harris. I also wrapped a heap of books to send out, so I can get more books. :D

And I bet half my friends list will disown me, but... I'm getting Twilight through Paperback Swap. I figure, all I need to do to get it send out another book, so it's not really a huge cost... so it doesn't count that I actually bought it, you know? I'm morbidly curious to see what all the fuss is about. (Bryan rolled his eyes and made a fuss when I told him I got it on PBS.)

And besides, Dr. Chadwick is reading the series. If she likes it, then it must be good. (Dr. Chadwick is my advisor, a very interesting lady in her mid sixties who likes to jump on chairs and yell about the state of the education system. Watching Vicki, my practicum advisor, imitate Dr. Chadwick is hilarious.) She wasn't going to read them as of the beginning of the semester, but one of her students gave her a copy, and that was that - she got hooked.

Oh lord I am gonna sleep in tomorrow and it will be GOOOOOOOOD.

Comments

[harmony]

Happy birthday!!

Oh man, tortellini with alfredo sauce sounds AMAZING. And now I want cake for breakfast!

[tehkittykat]

Happy birthday!

The Twilight series is kind of a WTF, and I say that after purchasing and reading all the books and getting the movie. The first book is a nice bit of twee brain-candy, but after that I pretty much stayed on for the slow, terrible trainwreck of the other books. If you do pick up New Moon, have a copy of Dear Abby's Is Your S.O. Abusive list. You'll get a lulzy surprise.

Disclaimer: I have a hobby of picking up terrible fiction, mocking it heavily, and going back for more. I did it once with the entire Left Behind series, and I still have fond memories of Head-Explodey Jesus in the last book. YMMV.

[kaighn]

Happy Birthday! ♥

I started reading Twilight at work after hearing people go on about how fantastically horrible it was, and ended up buying the series. It's trashy fun. I wish I hadn't bought Breaking Dawn though, even my Twitard coworker thinks that one is so awful it shouldn't exist. She actually made up her own less WTFpedo ending and refuses to acknowledge that one. LOL

[rin]

Have you had fried tortellini yet? omg so tasty.

...I won't disown you for twilight unless you get all swoony about it. Then I might have to cut you off. :P heehee

[dreamingpixels]

Dude, it's a vampire novel without Lestat and Louis. I won't get swoony.

[dreamingpixels]

Yeah, a lot of my friends said "OMG SO HORRIBLE" and others are "OMG SO AMAZING". Is Breaking Dawn the last one? That's the one Dr. Chadwick isn't sure she wants to read - she says she's happy enough with the ending of the 3rd book being the end of the series.

[dreamingpixels]

Haha, I did that with Left Behind too - mostly just read it to see where the hell it went, wondered "what the hell were the authors thinking?" and went to find the next book.

[flurgh]

What rin said. I had a friend read the books and go see the movie out of morbid curiosity, and now her favorite fandom is "people who trash Twilight and make fun of Twitards".

[tehkittykat]

OMG yeah. I almost want to find the new one.. apparently there's a rumor about another book that's supposed to be stuff happening in paradise or something. It will probably be a complete wreck.