FOREVERR. FOREVERR.

[ninety6tears]

Much less grumpy today, though still tired. Internet is working again, but only on and off.

I wonder how many of y'all might have read Francesca Lia Block. I'm currently reading Necklace of Kisses, a not-so-young-adult sequel to her YA Weetzie Bat series which is sort of aimed at the same generation that were teenagers when the books came out and tells of Weetzie's troubled marriage and mid-life crisis.

I was not expecting much from it, to the point that I almost wondered why I dropped the money on it. My vague memory of most of Block's books (with the exception of Wasteland which is gorgeous and kicked me in the chest about as hard as a book can) gives me an impression of subculture reference overdose and a lot of characters who'd be described as hipsters in seconds flat, and justifiably so (I have to admit naming your baby girl "Cherokee" is kind of adorable, but come on). I was wondering if I'd be able to get past the constant descriptions of what the characters are eating and wearing now that my generation is the shitty economy generation, only to be pleasantly surprised when this exact thing was written with a new self-consciousness, and also in a way that really brought the characters back to me. Dirk - who is now about forty and no longer wears his hair in a mohawk - chuckles at a pile of old punk band t-shirts being unpackaged for Weetzie's thrift store and says, "None of those could have been mine. My shirts were all shredded to pieces by 1985." Not to mention I'm really thankful to get quite a few appearances from the other characters, since Weetzie was never particularly my favorite.

There are some actual normal names scattered in with the rest. My Secret Agent Lover Man settles for going by Max now.


It snowed for like five minutes today. I almost thought I imagined it.


This Sandlot gif is not relevant but I am just really really happy it exists:

Comments

[the-physicist.livejournal.com]

I don't know those books but yay that your internet is better! Keep in mind LJ is having hickups too, so maybe it seems worse than it is. I can only get on via mobile phone, the other IP addresses from the landlines here might be blocked to prevent denial of service attacks :-/

[jackthelion77.livejournal.com]

God just hearing those character names takes me back like whoa. I wanna reaaad it.

Glad this week is looking better, chick-a-dee. What's going on with the job thing? Just waiting for them to call you still or is there a story?

I love and miss you terribly!

Oh by the way I should be home Tues-Sun of Thanksgiving week. Yay!

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

With the job...I can't remember how much I mentioned about this while I was visiting, but I was pretty much officially given the job and was told they'd call me some time from mid to late October, and I still haven't heard from them so I'm like, thanks for making me sit on my ass for a month taking for granted I would have a job soon? It pisses me off a little more than it would have if they'd at least fucked me over explicitly and promptly. I don't know, maybe the tests got lost in the mail and they'll eventually call, but in the mean time I'm looking for something else.

I miss you lots :(

Do you have any idea what you'll be doing the weekend of March 9? There's a Radiohead concert in St. Louis I'm thinking about so it would be a good time to hang out.

[jackthelion77.livejournal.com]

Buncha bitches. Well good luck with the job hunt. What ever happened to the locksmith idea? Or getting trained in something else hirable?

I have no idea what'll be going on March 9th. I don't go to Boise til April 2nd and I think Marita is looking at weekends later in April for the wedding, so it should be fine.

<3