I've been messing around with the graphic novels over the last few days because we finally got the stupid spine labels in so I can get the shelving out of my office, etc. And I always get distracted when I'm doing things with big piles of books and start reading instead of changing item types, shelving, or what have you. And you know what I rediscovered?
The X-Men are really fucking cool.
So now, just to have life imitate art, I'm all about ordering more X-Men comics, especially the stuff Joss Whedon's done. Just had to share my little fanboy revelation.
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Tiffany and I were talking last night, and she was saying how she's expecting this, her final semester of library school, to be really hellish, with classes full of work and all sorts of problems. Mostly, she's thinking this because there were no loan-related problems this semester. And I was saying that I keep waiting for something to go horribly wrong with my new car, because I'm a pessimist and have no faith in my luck. But then I thought something so radical, we kept repeating it in disbelief: Maybe things just won't be stupid and lame for either of us, for a few months. Just maybe.
It's an interesting thought, and not one I'm used to having.