hey love, I'm an inconstant satellite

Other notes:

Shonen Jump came like a week and a half ago. I still haven't opened the package.

It's IBARW again! In addition to collecting links for Wednesday posts, I plan to post some reviews of books by POC as suggested by rachelmanija. (See also ibarw, 50books_poc.)

Trip to San Juan:

++ As You Like It in the rain
++++ As You Like It in the amazingly dramatic sunset thunderstorm with rainbow
++ As You Like It in the costume shed

- Dansko glorified-zori in unstable walking/scrambling contexts
+ walking up the fire trail
+++ startling many vultures in Hidden Cove! as they were eating a dead deer!

++ trade-in book credit at Serendipity! (good idea, Wim!)
+ praise from proprietress for having all but one book usable
+++ The Root Cellar! I remember this book! and Blanche Passes Go

. confirmed that the only bookstore I hadn't been to doesn't exist, despite having a sign

-- when you reserve at the last minute, you get the stupidly expensive hotel room

--- bad sunburn that hurts scratchily all the time, especially when trying to sleep
(I'm applying scads of aloe, drinking fluids, and even taking aspirin)

I'm gonna have to agree with misia's "gayer than a gay thing that is gay" here. Flaming cowboys on ice (video).

No one else in the world has narrow feet, do they? I am trying to figure out if the reason my toes get scrunched in these boots, which are long enough, really, is that a normal-width foot would not be able to slide that far down in them. Maybe I'll try some cushy insoles. Sometime after my feet recover.

rubricity will like this: I was thinking today that I should write a fantasy novel (which would undoubtedly be bad, since I have no head for plots) in which all the characters are named after CLLI codes, or at least the city/state parts thereof. An embarrassing number of minutes were spent considering whether "Cralida" could be made into a tolerable name in any way. (Coeur D'Alene, ID, and the next character in a code I used a lot was A.)

I had a total Yomiko Readman moment today. Coming out of $CHAINSTORE (I had a gift card) with Midnighters 3, Nana 2, and the only Azumanga Daioh I didn't already have, and on my way to get a juice smoothie I'd been craving for ages, I'm positive there were little pink ovals on my cheeks.