Ch-ch-changes!

So it's Halloween! (No I didn't dress up as Bowie...)

I once sent this picture to a coworker. Best thing I've ever done at work.

Anywho, I finally finished Gone Girl and am going to see the movie this weekend! So I was perusing my Kindle library wondering what book to add to my currently overwhelming pile of reads. I'm trying not to overlap genres too much so I can keep it all straight, so I decided to revisit the ol' blog and chain to see what I had been reading as if that will help me unlock the secret of where to go next.

It didn't help.

But I think I'm due for an update anyway.

1. Big changes going on in the life stuffs that may make updating and writing and things more awesome. I can't talk about it yet but just now I will be super hardcore celebrating if I get the ok to go forward with THE PLAN. (dun dun dun!)

2. It's almost Nanowrimo time! Just counting down the hours! If you are on the fence, I suggest you jump in. It's not too late! It's never too late! I had outlined a whole fantasy tale over September, but now on the eve of Nanowrimo I'm contemplating changing it up to a contemporary YA comedy-ish. I hope waiting til the last minute to decide provides some clarity or I may be the only person dumb enough to try to write two novels in November. I'm so dumb.

3. GAH. The video games are trying to take mah money! So far Civ's Beyond Earth has released -- moly cow, so good! I got so engrossed in the politics of colonizing that Husband suggested I read Speaker for the Dead again. I tried once and got stuck very early on, but this time I plowed on and am enjoying the crap out of that book! SOOO GOOD. Anyway, video games. On the fence about the new Call of Duty. But we all know I will likely break down and buy it. It's just a matter of timing. Also, WoW's update comes out super soon. So that's going to rip away the rest of my free time. And lastly Super Smash Bros for Wii U kicks off end of November. As if I didn't have enough going on already!

Here's the latest and greatest list of books I'm current reading--

• The Hobbit - still. Ugh. It's soo good, but I can't stick with it for very long in one sitting. Not sure why.
• Harry Potter and the something after Goblet of Fire - I finally started actually reading it, and it's pretty good. I'm very nervous about being reunited with whiney-shithead Harry that shows up in this book. His tantrums drive me nuts.
• Sense and Sensibility - I've made crazy progress on this one lately! I'm almost done, but you wouldn't know it. I bought a collection to read so the percent read never changes. Super disheartening. 
• Iron Kissed - have I talked about this series before? I adore it. It's totally cheese, but it's smart and sharp so like Romano. 
• Speaker for the Dead - totally different from Ender's Game, but there may be nothing better than Orson Scott Card's understanding/conceptualizing of space and ethics.

Moly cow, is that it? No wonder I'm in the market for another book...

Which leads me to my last point -- 

I think I'm going to change this blog's format AGAIN. I don't want to clog blogger with half-a-dozen different blogs about all the things I like to talk about...and I do like to talk. But I'm thinking about changing this into a book review blog. I know, the kiss of death for blogging. EVERYONE has a book review blog. And I don't read any of them. So why would you read mine? Well. Because like everyone I have a unique perspective (LOLZ), and for the love of goodness that won't be the only thing I talk about. But you have to admit it would be an easy transition. Half of what I write about now is what I'm reading. And the stuff I watch on TV, which often is based on a book. Good gravy.

So anyway. I will probably be AWOL for most of November, but expect me to shake things up a bit when I return!

Random Musings After Far Too Much Time In My Hotel Room

So, I'm just hanging out in Dallas this week. And by hanging out I mean working.
The timing has been fantastic, what with the whole ebola thing. Good gravy.

It feels like zombies. I'm pretty sure someone on reddit called the poor guy that died "patient zero," which seems pretty appropriate. But the media, to be fair, makes it sound like it would be as easy to tell if someone was carrying the ebola virus as it would be to tell someone's a zombie. Flu-like symptoms? Maybe? Don't touch any of their fluids. Okay! Wasn't gonna anyway! ...But now they are all talking about how another person may have it, a cop or something? And it's like, dude! did you not see the signs? It's like the beginning of Zombieland. Anyway. It's super creepy. And I hope it gets resolved soon. A cure would be ideal obviously, but I hope too that the medical professionals here and abroad will be able to stop the spread and save lives! ...Meanwhile, all this talk about closing the borders (which frankly sounds unsympathetic as a country quite content with dumping ice on our heads to help people a mere month ago, even when that act didn't actually do anything...) and I just hope that I get home tomorrow without there being any issues. But last night, you should have heard me freaking out in my hotel room. I'm always less sensible and much more paranoid at night, and I was losing it while talking to the Husband. I wasn't sure the glass of water they brought with my room service last night was safe (I drank it anyway, because, you know - hydration...but whatever). And I'm fairly certain there is a police or fire station nearby, because there are sirens constantly.

So that's been a gem, and I'm super excited to go home tomorrow.

In other news, I'm reading like six books right now. And I'm much more aware of that fact now since my routine includes waking up super early, working, and going back to my room for dinner and reading. I don't know why I can't ever focus on one at a time. I know it bothers people when I tell them I read multiple books at a time. It's not like I'm doing it simultaneously - like numerous versions of kindles surrounding me and I just read a sentence at a time from each (although I've done that before when I'm incredibly tired in-flight, since I can't sleep on planes). It's like watching a bunch of TV shows. You can totally remember the stories from each without getting confused, so it's not really that different.

Anywho, if you were wondering what I'm reading (who knows?) here you go:

1. The Hobbit - not a surprise after my last update.
2. Harry Potter and the something or other book that follows Goblet of Fire -- okay, haven't technically started it, but I'm mid-series. So it's always in my face like "read me, dammit!"
3. Sense and Sensibility - earlier this year I swore I'd read through all of Jane Austen's books because she's amazing. But I got stuck on this one - the first one - and it's not going very well.
4. Honor's Knight - remember that one book, uh, Fool's Pawn? That turned out to be flippin' fantastic. So I'm on the second one, and it's definitely my go-to book right now. Freakin' awesome. (haha, it's actually Fortune's Pawn. But I have terrible memory. Reading retention is not my thing apparently.)
5. Gone Girl - book club! my friend and I started a movie based book club, and this was our first pick (despite starting in like June...and we just agreed on it two weeks ago.) I got half-way through and stopped but I'm also out of town for most of the month so it'll be a while before I can even go see the movie. I've got time!

Okay so five books! That's not too bad, right??

(p.s. - I just picked up a copy of Rainbow Rowell's latest - Landline, and The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is free on amazon right now. So hopefully it will be seven books very soon! Wheee!!!)