woostering

Seriously. Labor Day is every other day of the week, because school is labor. So is band, because -oh, yay- marching band. I'm sarcastic there... yesterday we had our first game, and the whole week I had to stay until 5 or so to practice for it. Bloody symphonic band, making me earn honors credit... Alright, it's not unbearable. But it aint easy, either. Still, playing Batman music and all of Mr. S's sense of humor makes up for it. Mostly. So my first week of school was sorta shot, as was saturday. And today I had to write an essay for US history. What drove me to take ap, I'm not sure. I spit out this essay in what, six hours, counting breaks and distractions and eating? So it's pretty crappy. I'm not in essay-writing-school mode yet.

Of course, there's tomorrow. But, that is the last day of the Bristol Renfaire, so I'm sorta busy. Now I just have to figure out how to finish my secind summer-reading book for teusday, and all will be good. Right.

My back is stiff from marching. I went to lie down on my side, and my whole back spasmed. Well, alright, mostly upper back, the muscles directly connected to my shoulders.

And then, on something completely different, I was going and rereading some of Droemar's journals. I like reading her stuff because it's all so true. That happens to be one of hers on the scourge that is Eragon... after the discovery that there will be a fourth book. Which, in the writing world, isn't really a great thing. Well, with the exception of Douglas Adams and his five book 'trilogy', because those books are brilliant.
There is a reason why trilogys tend to pop up; it's a three-act structure that is used by hollywood all the time. Rarer is the five-act structure, which you might say HG2TG is (five books, yes?). But it's a formula. Use the formula or don't, but if you use it, stick to it.
Admitedly, I liked Eragon when it first came out. Why? Because I had yet to discover much of the hidden depths of the fantasy world. And, I was 10/11 at the time. Then there was this wait, and I barely reread it for Eldest, which I just didn't enjoy. It was bleah... And then there was the movie. The movie does have one redeemable quality: Jeremy Irons as Brom. I loved what they did with Brom.
But that is why I now like John Flannagan's Ranger's Apprentice books, which I found quite by accident. Halt is hilarious (Hilarious Halt? Hmm, Halt wouldn't like that), and so is Baron Arald. But he also potrays Will and Horace and the princess really well. I feel like I understand them completely. I like Alison Croggon's Pellinor books. And I really need to get Before They Are Hanged. Now, Joe Abercrombie can write. The Blade Itself was just so smooth, everything flowed together like, well, *kherm* magic. It was amazing.
I like writing with a sense of humor (preferably a dry, british sense of humor, heavy on sarcasm and irony). I can take insanity, blood, and camp, but I've come to realise I can't take drivel. Another good writer- Mathew Stover, who wrote the Revenge of the Sith and Shatterpoint. I like a writer that gets into a characters head. There we go.

So, after me being long-winded, here is something more amusing, and random: