Either sex or a conversation -- ideally both.

Quickly, three sentences' worth of whining: Livejournal I am so tired :(((( this subject is kicking my ass, even though in terms of pagecount the reading lists are puny, but I keep reading and my attention keeps sliding away, goddamnit, with the result that I feel both incredibly frustrated and incredibly lazy. Also, the bank won't give me a cashpoint card, and recent events in my ~personal life~ are transpiring to make me feel both incredibly giddy and also small and scared at weird moments, it's weird.

BUT things are... surprisingly okay! On Saturday I get both oddishly and kickingrad, and we're going to hang out together and you can't say better than that, and I am surrounded by some of the most incredibly nice (and funny, and interesting, and understanding) people in the world, and you really really can't say better than that, eh?

Also, I'm about halfway through My So-Called Life and argh, what a brilliant show, I LOVE IT SO. Tiny Claire Danes! Sarcastic voiceovers! The opening sequence! The part at the end of the first episode where ( spoilers )

And then she beams, and the camera pans, and oh my god, I'm not making any sense now, but <333 oh, my heart. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Also, I went on the Wikipedia article for it and apparently Winnie Holzman [who created the show] said, "When I realized that Claire truly did not want to do it any more, it was hard for me to want to do it. The joy in writing the show was that everyone was behind it and wanted to do it. And I love her." FOR SOME REASON IT IS MAKING ME ALMOST TEARY. Already I've press-ganged one of my friends into watching the first episode. :DDDD

Anyway. Books I've read! That were not for school!

Cat On A Hot Tin-Roof, by Tennessee Williams.

( I liked this! I'd read A Streetcar Named Desire and it didn't do anything for me, so I'm pleasantly surprised. )

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, by Joshua Zeitz.

( Mostly great! )

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson | The Moon By Night, by Madeleine L'Engle | To Live, by Yu Hua | Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer | The Next Competitor, by K.P. Kincaid | Raffles Place Ragtime, by Phillip Jeyaretnam | Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy, by Frances Mayes | Mao's Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin | Marie, Dancing, by Carolyn Meyer | Man Walks Into A Room, by Nicole Krauss | How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby