desktops!

remember how i promised you a nice long blog post about yesterday? and i said i wouldn't keep posting pictures and music and random things?

well, i lied. i'm sure you're all surprised. i was kind of busy today, but most of my adventures can't be written up here (you'll probably hear about them anyway). there is one thing i can share, though - the momster's shiny computers inspired me to change my desktop and icons!

...yes, i really am lame enough to be excited about that. don't judge me. or do. it's only the internet.

here, take a look:

i'm particularly fond of the darth vader and r2d2 icons (preview and safari, respectively). i loaded in a bunch of goodies today. i'm still kind of sad that the lord of the rings icon set was only for windows users. my life just doesn't feel complete without having mordor/mount doom as my trashcan.

you know what else my life isn't complete without? television. i miss it so much. the only good thing that's come of all this is that i've been reading way more than before. hopefully i've been reading better, too. remember being a kid and reading things just for the 'story'? like, you thought the plot sounded cool (not that you even knew what plot meant) so you'd read the story mostly so you could pretend that you were in it. (well, maybe i was the only kid who did this, i don't know)

i had a really funny conversation with someone about not understanding people who don't reread books. the conversation in question was made even better by the girl standing behind us in line at the bookstore interrupting to tell us that she 'never rereads books, i don't see the point, it's not like the words, like, change, or something'. someone was obviously in academic english. doesn't it seem like books change every time you read them? even the so-called 'easy reads'. i've never reread a book without learning or noticing something new. and so i bring you, in more or less accurate order, my rereads of the week:

1.  the poisonwood bible. this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, since we're still working with it in english and i have a giant project on it due in two weeks. 
2. jane eyre. i finally finished it (again!). i tried to draw it out as long as possible.
3. wide sargasso sea. which i prefer to pretend is unrelated to jane (and darling mr. rochester). 
4. moby dick. call me ishmael, kids. 

that's all for today. if you're really interested in what i'm listening to, scroll back up and take a closer look at that desktop image. or scroll down and look at yesterday's picture.