Dizzy Appointment Day

[matrixrefugee]

I had a ten o'clock appointment in Lowell, but I somehow woke up too late to catch the bus I was going to take. So, after a half an hour of hurrying through breakfast and getting dressed and getting my stuff together and calling my therapist to let her know I was gonna be late, just as I'm about to step out the door...

My dad who's on the way to work offers to drive me to Lowell. Whew! Thanks, Dad!

And there must have been a half-day at the High School downtown, since I got into the Library to find every computer being used. I had to wait almost a half an hour to use one computer, and then when I got up to collect my printouts from the network printer, someone tried to take that computer, even though my totebag and a stack of books I was taking out (Ursula LeGuin's rendering of Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Joan Gould's "Spinning Straw into Gold") were sitting by the monitor and my coat was draped over the back of the chair. The computer couldn't be any more clearly marked as being in use if I'd had a neon sign on top of it saying "NO VACANCY!"

I got sick of that, so I bugged out and headed homewards, but not after nipping into the Barnes & Noble to poke around: found and bought Neil Gaiman's graphic novella "The Last Temptation" (with artwork by Michael Zulli, who did much of the artwork on "The Sandman: The Wake"), which was based off a short story he collaborated on with Alice Cooper, based on song lyrics they'd collaborated on for one of Cooper's albums, which didn't make it into into the final cut. Just started reading it, and it reminds me a *lot* of Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

I ended up at the Tewksbury Library, where I picked up Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist", and also downloaded and burned two audio CDs of those selections from the MxO soundtrack I mentioned a few entries back. Pretty good stuff: still sounds like a slightly cheapened version of the music from the live action trilogy (though some cuts sounded more like Enigma collaborating with John Adams), but I love it. If anyone wants a copy, I'd be happy to burn one for you... once I get the new computer.

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[he-dreams-awake.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read the Blatty book yet, you're in for a REAL treat. The character studies are extraordinary. It's probably the only book[I, unfortunately, have an eidetic memory, particularly with text and audio speech/sound] that, no matter how many times I read it, I can pick up, open to any page, and enjoy all over again. Good choice: and it comes HIGHLY recommended from us.