remember

(this entry is especially dedicated to xerox - for making me feel a tiny bit guilty for not posting updates as often as she wished..)

the thing i love about sem breaks (or any nonworking day, for that matter) is the free time. but it's not like i sleep earlier or wake up that much later in the morning. my vacations are mostly spent doing the things i can't seem to squeeze in during regular workdays. like doing crosswords, watching my favorite tv series (csi & grey's anatomy top the list, natch) - reruns or not, fixing my files and of course, reading.

last october i breezed through 4 books: gaiman's latest (the graveyard book), a book of short stories (100 crooked little crime stories), stephenie meyer's twilight series (i re-read all 4 books at least 3 times - i didn't have anything else to read at the time XP - so i count the series as just one loooong book) and most recently, sam taylor's the amnesiac.

of the books i mentioned, the last is the most fulfilling read for me. i wouldn't call it perfect.. and i have no immediate plans of re-reading it.. but i loved the amnesiac because (1) it's not classified as children's/teenage literature - which, for me, is a *very* welcome change indeed, haha!; (2) the story is gripping - especially at the beginning; (3) it's weird enough to pique my interest and further tweak my (overactive) imagination, yet (4) realistic enough to actually enable me to relate to the character (god knows how often i've thought james' thoughts and writings)

in a way, i think it's kinda creepy that i'm more able to relate to the (weird) thoughts of fictional characters than to actual people (operative word: people, not aliens, ok?!). lately, i've dreamt of (good) vampires & werewolves; imagined growing up "ghost-like" and nearly invisible (it didn't take too much imagination, that); semi-delved into the thoughts of (fictional) criminals; and read my own thoughts in the epiphanies of a sort-of-time-traveling amnesiac character.

creepy.. but it doesn't really bother me, haha.

think i need to get a social life..? XP i don't really need anyone else. just you, i guess.. *sigh*