the journal of a fangirly insect

Okay. So if I move my bed so it's flush against the wall, get rid of the nightstand, push the armoire-turned-bookshelf about six inches to the right, and take down the Phantom of the Opera poster on the wall (which I've been meaning to do anyway), I *think* I can fit one more bookshelf in here. By god, I will do it.

Looking at Neil Gaiman's oh-my-god-look-at-those-shelves-I-just-jizzed-in-my-pants library has inspired me. No more boxes of books stacked to the ceiling because I don't have room for them! Maybe the stacks will only be waist-high now!

I wonder where the nearest IKEA-like store is...

Why is it so hard for me to quit you? Even though you package my books poorly and they end up all mangled, I still can't stay away. Sigh.

I checked my "spam" email account tonight (the email address I use to sign up for sites and the like) and saw that someone who actually seemed like a real person and not a robot replied to my latest complaint. Not only are they going to refund my account once they get the books back, but they gave me a $15 gift card. If there is one thing I cannot resist, it is the lure of free books. Even if those books will probably arrive damaged like every other book I buy from the damned site. They're still free, right?

It is 2:30 am and I cannot sleep. (Not because of Amazon...I don't know why I can't sleep.)

I've felt grumpy all day, and I don't even know why. :| Hormones? I don't know. I suppose that's as good of a guess as any.

Yeah, I watched it again. XD It'll probably be the last time that I'll be able to catch it in theaters; besides, I had a really shitty day and needed a pick-me-up.

The more I see it, the more I love Ozymandias...

Also, when they play the muzak version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears in the part when Ozy's talking to the captains of industry about Alexander the Great and wanting to conquer the ills that beset mankind? LOLOLOL COMEDY GOLD. I can't keep a straight face thinking about it, much less when I'm actually watching the movie.

I had an hour and a half to kill, so I went to Barnes & Noble again to browse, since we don't really have what I consider to be a "real" bookstore down here. I didn't buy anything, but I found about a dozen books that I'm going to buy eventually. Then I came home and bought Swamp Thing Vol. 1 by Alan Moore. I know that they say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but I think the cover art is beautiful. Besides, I haven't read anything by Alan Moore yet that I haven't adored. Sigh. As if my "to read" list isn't totally out of control already! Well, as my mom always said when I was a little kid, "It could be worse. It could be drugs."

And, on the way home, I was bitten by a plotbunny of doom. As if I don't have more than enough of those, too...

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I don't really get all that motivated to read unless I write down the books I've read and what I thought about them, so this will hopefully help me.