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Read the first Temeraire book on the train back. It's sweet and pleasant and I cried like a drain but I think the second one is much better. I'm also suffering twitchy 'I'd have written this differently' flashes. That's a change from most of my fantasy English reading, which is usually 'I wouldn't have written this at all and I rather wonder why you did,' but still. My perfect contentment is marred, grump grump.

Stunned to find Zero-Sum waiting in my mailbox when I got back. It came out last Thursday. And went to Vancouver and crossed the country and arrived here on Monday-- no, I don't believe that's possible at all. If it comes out on Thursday *Hong Kong* gets it Friday. That Toronto gets it Monday (no weekend mail delivery) is a miracle. Iwase usually takes ten days to two weeks to deliver.

I now have limited-edition Saiyuuki gels from Zero-Sum's Comiket booth, courtesy of

abyss_goat, in lovely glowing colours, which I may iconize when I finish gloating over them. But you can't put gels in the window like I want to. The light bleaches them.

Cities are like people and this weekend New York had a headache and wasn't going to be nice to anyone for any consideration. So the weekend splits oil-and-waterly into seeing old friends, which was marvellous, and trying to get to where the old friends were, which we won't talk about. I did meet a handful of equally distressed out-of-towners to share my misery, but I'd rather we'd all been happy instead.

Book-Off had nothing I wanted, so I wound up buying chunks of Fruits Basket and Godchild. Kinokuniya had nothing period, so I wound up buying Bleach. The New Yorkers were for once all large and pissy and in the way: two large pissy New Yorkers having a fight on the Sixth Ave sidewalk over some lover-type sin of omission can bottleneck traffic big time. New York tried to make amends by offering me a Polish parade up Fifth on Sunday afternoon but by then it was too late.

OTOH it did *not* rain for either the pre-wedding dinner or the wedding reception itself, but that's God's doing, not New York's.

Also I'm not going anywhere again ever until I get a new set of knees and feet.

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Oh yes, it was indeed heavenly to see everyone! NYC, the weather, everything was perfect this weekend. There wasn't enough time. There is no such thing as enough time, I want to live in the same city with everyone!!

You might consider photocopying those cells onto overhead transparencies. Then you can put the overhead transparencies in the window, and if they fade so what?, the originals are safe and sound. I don't know if they make overhead transparency paper the right size though ...

I want to live in the same city as everyone and a BookOff but not in the US. This isn't likely to happen any time soon, alas. If it wasn't for the dork president of UofT I *would* be living in the same city as you; and yes that still rankles in a major way.

You are now officially at the top of the (extremely abbreviated) list of people I am happy to share a room with. Just to mention.

Flatterer.

I only wish we'd had more time to visit.

Speaking of which - what vols of the Demon series did you need? Speak up soon or they may end up in volunteer bags in a week or so.

1-3, 6-9, and anything after 13 you care to toss. Which should be enough for me to tell if I like it, I'd think. ^_^

I wish we had more time together. Would have loved to go shopping with all of you guys. ;_; When your knees get better come down again, and I'll do my best to make sure that you have a more pleasant stay. ^__^

Under the circs I hardly expected to see much of you at all this weekend and was glad I got to see as much as I did. The shopping was a letdown anyway. Here's to better luck next time.

wai, NYC!
the only joke/hoax about Manhattan that sticks to mind is the one about sawing off a part of the island? http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/manhattan/index.html

Fruits Basket: oh, chinese horoscope furries of varying degrees of perversity and gender who change when hugged by person of opposite gender/orientation/whatever. Only for some of the twelvesome, there is difficulty in determining *who* will make them change ^^;. I'm gonna enjoy the posts from Toronto Woman about this one ^^

I've read chunks of FB in French and a bit more in English but I can't get into it because I can't remember who's who without kanji. Rin, people say, or Haru, and I'm supposed to know who that is? It's a decent series with for once a likable heroine but I already know it's not going to grab me hard and pull, if only because of the art style. Desperate emotions need to be accompanied by lots of toner for me to believe them. (It's why I still read Yuki Kaori even though I know better.)

These guys are drawn too light: clearly it's a comedy in the Shakespearean sense. Yes, I'm shallow like that. I had the same problem with Lumen Lunae, which was supposed to be chillingly perverse, but everybody was drawn small and sketchy with pointed chins, next door to chibi. Enh- no. Don't buy your premise for a minute.

Also the word is that FB went mandatory heterosex near the end with female partners found for any possible m/m combo. That might be the howling of blind yaoi fans or it might be a legitimate criticism. We shall see.

Oh, shallow... Erm. You're talking to the person who is capable of enjoying Adachi's sports manga and Ranma. For some reason, jarring art does not bother me as much as jarring plotline. I can tell that as an artist, Akino Matsuri is of a different class from Takahashi Rumiko, but I appreciate both equally because to me, they are equal in terms of ability as story-tellers. (shallow! ^__^)

FB: I don't remember much. Whatever I recall is from the anime anyway X_X. But I like the concept of the 12 Furries ^__^

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