Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

[Monday, May 7] My wallet, and I, are reeling somewhat from a series of impulse purchases over the last week--or more specifically, the last weekend, beginning on Saturday when I went into a secondhand goods store near my church. That store turned out to have rather more interesting things than its exterior suggested--at first I had thought it sold only old TVs and electric guitars that nobody could tune any more. Apparently they have stacks and stacks of bokken--Japanese training swords, very blunt but very heavy--going for less than 10 each; boxes piled high with records (I'm not sure if they were pirated, though); and, which caught my attention most, a few hundred books in shelves along the wall. I was decidedly happy to see those. The books, naturally, were mostly romance novels with half-undressed chests sprawled all over the cover. I avoided those, but I did find an early Patricia C Wrede (I've read some of her other work, and it's pretty good); a David/Leigh Eddings ...

[Monday, April 30] I wonder if I should sign up for this year's Copa di IBA. It's not like I'm going to do much good if I join anyhow, though--Claus has already told me that the way I play, I'm a liability to the team. Apparently because of the way I jump, people behind me are liable to have their eyes damaged... so unless I have a sudden improvement in style or technique or whatever it's called, I guess I'm not going to be on our delegation to the competition. Not that I mind. Sweat and sore limbs are not my cup of tea anyway--if possible, I'll probably just find a nice steeple hat somewhere and wear it there to keep the sun outta my face. I might even want to try and buy a (hooded!) trenchcoat or something in case it rains. It's a pity there aren't many shops selling ankle-length cloaks--I've always thought those looked kinda nice. Still, one has to make do with what one has... Things are definitely getting stressful around the office. With all...

Monday, 12 March My arms are sore, especially my left one. Not to mention my legs have been reduced to quivering jelly since yesterday evening... plus I think I'm suffering from sleep deprivation since I stayed up 'til 12 last nght and woke at 6 this morning... my own fault, of course, for watching that DVD, but then again how could I resist? They said it was a comedy... Hmmm. Might as well get everything straightened out before I forget it all. Well, there was the movie on Saturday. Bridge to Terabithia, if I remember and spell rightly; it was a pretty nice movie, even if all the Coconut seems to think of it is that the girl shouldn't have died. I somewhat like the plot, even though the ending wasn't particularly palatable: too vague for me, and besides there were several plot ends that didn't get tied up at the end. Not a great movie, but not too disappointing. Personally, I found the nicest part to be the boy's drawing and the girl's storytelling--too bad...