Flathunting for Geeks.
Feb. 23rd, 2006 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlbeerSo, the amount of time it takes for me to really miss my computer and DVDs? About a week and a half.
It's actually been a pretty good day but I just really missed those two things. I'd love to sit down with one of my DVDs right about now. The house I'm staying in is without a DVD player and while I am extremely grateful to my friend for letting me stay there, I miss my DVD player and my computer (House episodes I need to download!) I feel kind of bad about that, but there it is.
Also, one of the reasons I want to find a flat quickly? So I can have a permanent address to join the Wellington Public Library. It's not my only motivation, or even my main one, but it's definitely there.
I also place flats that have broadband connections way higher up on my preference list. Not that having a preference really factors into finding a flat in Wellington right now.
Basically, the moral of this? I am a spoiled and impatient fangirl.
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I'm going through a total Raymond E Feist phase. I know he's really not the best fantasy writer out there (his more recent stuff anyway, 'Magician' really is a great book) but I'm just in love with some of his characters, sometimes for reasons I can't articulate. For example, my almost obsessive fascination with Magnus in the Conclave of Shadows series. I really don't know why. I also really think some of the characters in his books need to form the Fathers-You-Can't-Possibly-Live-Up-To Support Group. Dude, it can't be easy.
Like I said, Magnus! Is it the scary almost-white hair? The fact that he's cold and mysterious? The fact that he's Pug's eldest son? The really scary potential people are hinting that he has? Yeah, it's totally the mystery. It's why I had (and still have) a real love for Calis in the Serpentwar series, and to a lesser extent (in terms of the mystery rather than the love) for Arutha, whose the one 'main' character I really love. I'm such a sucker for mystery and back-story. Talon (or Talwin) I can take or leave, but all the background characters like Magnus, Caleb, Robert, Nakor and Pug? I really, really need to know more about. (In the context of this story, I realise I know a hell of a lot about Pug, and to a lesser extent, Nakor).
Also, Jimmy! Now Duke of Krondor and about seventy. He was in one scene and he owned it. Love him.
I also saw in the bookstore today that this whole thing has birthed another series? Very predictible but of course, I shall be reading. Damn you Magnus, I totally blame you as it seeems like you're playing more of a role, and on Kelewan, which is pretty cool. I think I should finish the Empire series before reading this.
Also, who the hell is Leso Varen? Should I know who he is with the few reference that Pug has battled him before? Hmmm.
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It's actually been a pretty good day but I just really missed those two things. I'd love to sit down with one of my DVDs right about now. The house I'm staying in is without a DVD player and while I am extremely grateful to my friend for letting me stay there, I miss my DVD player and my computer (House episodes I need to download!) I feel kind of bad about that, but there it is.
Also, one of the reasons I want to find a flat quickly? So I can have a permanent address to join the Wellington Public Library. It's not my only motivation, or even my main one, but it's definitely there.
I also place flats that have broadband connections way higher up on my preference list. Not that having a preference really factors into finding a flat in Wellington right now.
Basically, the moral of this? I am a spoiled and impatient fangirl.
--
I'm going through a total Raymond E Feist phase. I know he's really not the best fantasy writer out there (his more recent stuff anyway, 'Magician' really is a great book) but I'm just in love with some of his characters, sometimes for reasons I can't articulate. For example, my almost obsessive fascination with Magnus in the Conclave of Shadows series. I really don't know why. I also really think some of the characters in his books need to form the Fathers-You-Can't-Possibly-Live-Up-To Support Group. Dude, it can't be easy.
Like I said, Magnus! Is it the scary almost-white hair? The fact that he's cold and mysterious? The fact that he's Pug's eldest son? The really scary potential people are hinting that he has? Yeah, it's totally the mystery. It's why I had (and still have) a real love for Calis in the Serpentwar series, and to a lesser extent (in terms of the mystery rather than the love) for Arutha, whose the one 'main' character I really love. I'm such a sucker for mystery and back-story. Talon (or Talwin) I can take or leave, but all the background characters like Magnus, Caleb, Robert, Nakor and Pug? I really, really need to know more about. (In the context of this story, I realise I know a hell of a lot about Pug, and to a lesser extent, Nakor).
Also, Jimmy! Now Duke of Krondor and about seventy. He was in one scene and he owned it. Love him.
I also saw in the bookstore today that this whole thing has birthed another series? Very predictible but of course, I shall be reading. Damn you Magnus, I totally blame you as it seeems like you're playing more of a role, and on Kelewan, which is pretty cool. I think I should finish the Empire series before reading this.
Also, who the hell is Leso Varen? Should I know who he is with the few reference that Pug has battled him before? Hmmm.
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