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WHITE COLLAR IS BACK

I HAVE THREE THINGS TO SHARE WITH YOU

Spoilers for 2.11, ( Checkmate )

3a. Well, it looks as though WC will be continuing its long and storied tradition of Not Actually Acknowledging Peter And Neal's Actual Situation. It's not that I think Jeff Eastin couldn't write two people facing up to their issues or even just HAVING THE FEELINGS anyone in their situation would have. I think he could. I just think he won't, and in a way I don't blame him for that, because it's messy and frequently boring and cuts way into "let's pull a fake heist!" time, and I probably wouldn't either. So this isn't a complaint, just an observation.

Still. I'm impressed by Peter's ability to repress, at this point.

Oh White Collar. I cannot quit you. Except for the last ten episodes, I wouldn't even want to. Don't ever do that to me again, baby.

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Shellfish are a major concern of ( A Cheaper World. )

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I keep trying and failing to read books these past few weeks. I've been through like four books and couldn't get through any of them.

I almost made it through Charles de Lint's "The Blue Girl" but honestly, could a book about punk teenagers and fairies be less interesting. I know de Lint is a good writer, but I think he must have been phoning it in on this one. It reads like a short story he was desperate to stretch into a novel, or possibly a world he wanted to build but didn't have enough plot content to justify.

I didn't actually get very far into Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation by Olivia Judson. The book in itself is not boring or badly written, but it mostly seemed like a lot of stuff I already knew, and while I have a passing interest in natural biology it doesn't really extend to the mating habits of very specific beetles.

I honestly did my best to try and get through Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs", but nothing happened in it, and kept happening, and that's something I will read if the characters are interesting. But it's about a bunch of coders at Microsoft in the nineties, and it's Douglas "Common people don't have interesting lives!" Coupland, so...

And I feel like an asshole because here are a bunch of books I've tried to read and failed, in a row, which makes me think the problem is probably me. But I don't quite know how to fix the problem.

Anyway, Coworker Crush is bringing me some books to borrow tomorrow, which is excellent motivation to actually read them, so we'll see how that goes.

Please don't recommend me any books, even your favourites. I know you want to, but my reading list is sixty books long.

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THAT WAS NERDTASTIC.

I just bought several comic books and a video game, and totally actually went into Robot City Workshop.

There's a really cool comic book store about a block north of the Belmont red line stop, and some strange impulse drove me there tonight, where I picked up a few sale books and scoped out the action figures. On my way back I did a literal double-take as I passed a new video game store almost directly under the train station, and it turned out to be fantastic. The guys are way nicer than the ones at the video game store north of Belmont, and the selection is better, if less accessible (all the games are in locked cases, but the prices and titles are visible which is all I really care about). So I bought Myst for the DS, because I liked the original Myst but only ever got to play it at a friend's house, and thus couldn't ever get very far.

I also ducked into the Robot City Workshop instead of just going past it this time, and that was cool. Though it's kind of small and robots, while awesome, are not cheap. I might sign up for a robot building class in the summer, though. That seems like it would be fun.

ALL THE NERD.