some more news...

Internships's still going pretty well. I received my finaid finally and orderred my laptop. Although, I have to call them up and get some things straightenned out tommorrow since I guess there's some trouble with the number I have with my bank or something. So, it should arrive sometime next week. Here's the comp I'm getting http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834149014

It's not great, but I'll be able to play some games and watch movies. Plus it has a decent sized hard drive and is quite cheap.

I've been entertaining myself mostly with books lately. Here's a list of what I've read categorized by quality.

Random books I found in used bookstores:

Larry Niven's The Integral Trees: An ok book about some weird gasious planet with a solid core and all of the weird people's who've adapted to living in giant trees where gravity is for the most part not present.

Raymond E. Feist's Shadow of a Dark Queen: Some random fantasy novel about some kid who kills some guy, is sentanced to death and then at the last moment spared to join some army to fight some reptile army. It was kind of fun, but not great. I was ammused though that every profanity was scribbled out and had other words written above them. The profanities that were crossed out weren't all that profane either; just words like bastard and damn.

W. Michael Gear's Warriors of Spider: This book was a piece of shit. It's about some colony of injuns who steal a russian spacecraft and liver their indian life on some planet while the rest of humanity regains peace at the cost of freedom. The indians prove quite a handful when they're discoverred by the totalitarian earth folk and some war breaks out.

Ok books I sought out and purchased:

Ringworld engineers and Ringworld Throne: Both pretty good. I like the ringworld stuff. Larry Niven isn't great, but I like his ideas and stories.

Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom's The Ascension Factor: This was ok, but my least favorite in the Pandora series. The series just has the problem of everything being resolved in each book and then ignoring the previous books in each installment. I guess the story was ok though.

The one really good book I've read:

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov: I've really enjoyed this book and am nearly done with it. I've read 950 out of the 1,030 pages. It's quite a fast read despite it's length. There are a few parts that bog the story down, mostly just the 10 page long rants about morality without god and whathaveyou. I guess it's just that sometimes these ideas are repeated in a different light by other characters. For the most part, though, it's a great read. I think next on my list is Demons.

In other news, I'm glad to be done with lake tipsoo for the week. I don't have any bug repellant and hadn't any time during the week to buy any. Instead of reading when things got slow, I'd have to spend my time trying to squish every one of the thousands of mosquitoes with my write in the rain notebook. Also, I will be in olympia, tommorrow. I'll be there for a couple of days and will hopefully have a delightful time.