elanya

Still adjusting to moving. The bank won't let me change my address with them unless I do it in person, so they can wait :p I'm having my mail forwarded. However there is one piece of mail that I'm concerned about - I'm worried that it might get lost in the shuffle, because I waited too long to set up the mail forwarding and I'm not sure how long it takes the post office tro process this stuff. Said mail is, of course, my Super Important Immigration paper that I've been chasing after for months now -_-

Well anyway - I must apologize, as in the weirdly chaotic liminal state that is my life at present, I let my skype phone number expire. It should be working now though! I am supposed to be getting my regular phone switched over too, but I need to find the phone jack in the apartment before I can test that. Someone tried to call me last week, though, and told me they got connected to someone else. Skype number should be working within the hour, and then I can see for myself! (Merc - if you see this, where did you say there was a phone jack? :o)

I have 8 boxes left to unpack, plus other stuff that I just need to find space for. I also have things that may as well go in to storage rather than taking up space, and more things that I want to take to Goodwill. I need to put stuff on the walls (trying to decide where/how), and I need to find the pegs to one of my bookcases so that I can use the shelves. Then I have to do stuf like set up my action figures and other knickacs. Eventually, I need to bring my dog home, though I'm still wary of doing so until we have some kind of AC solution. I miss her though :(

I also have a ton of empty boxes. Anyone need any boxes?

In other news, I've been re-reading my ancient battered copy of J.V. Jones's The Baker's Boy, which I first read waaaay back in highschool. I remember enjoying it greatly then, but now it does really read very much like a first book. It's still very solid and the story is fairly complex (certainly more than it seems at first), but the writing is stylistically simplistic in places, and sometimes a little repetitive. I want to read the rest of the series to watch her improve - I also just ordered the fourth book in her current series, which will be a nice contrast :3 Of course, I really should be doing more work - research and writing - and less fiction reading. But after readingf George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons, a hunger has been awakened @_@ A lot of her cover blurbs compare JVJ to GRRM (and Robert Jordan), and while I can see the parallels pretty clearly, it seems like she doens't get the same kind of attention from fans? I'm not sure, but I couldn't find any fanworks elated to her works at all, and she's published 8 novels. That seems pretty strange to me! So far as I'm aware, she's never taken a strong stance against fanfic.... and I've never seen that really stop anyone anyway. I'm not sure how she is doing in terms of sales. There is a message board on her site at least, but it is not super active. Talking to other fantasy fans I know, they generally have at least heard of her, if not read her stuff. I know I have at least one LJ friend on account of shared interest too.... (*waves* at knight_ander) Anway, I'm rambling. May as well go read, or else unpack.... oh there's a choice :p