Friday!

One of the interesting things about my high school is that most of it performs about as well as a fish rock-climbing. I refer to the constant disorganization, the weird social climate caused by 4000 or so boringly dressed, boringly thinking white middle-class teenagers milling around.

Still, it wasn't a bad day. I spent a lot of my time climbing stairs. I walk about ten flights in my normal schedule--today it was around 12 or 14. Let's just say I am sore. I was also riding the crimson flow on this, my first full week of school, and attempting to wade through feet of homework.

In other news: I finally figured out how to get on the bus, I finally got my student ID stamped for the bus, I can't seem to remember the combination on my school locker, and the only other girl in my shop class is switching out.

SF I HAVE READ THIS WEEK:
-Deus Irae, Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny:
Disappointing. Really disappointing, considering that I love both authors of this work but could really do without this very drawn-out, arrythmically paced, and frankly, downright odd novel that seems to revolve around a cruel God and a strange plot.

-Tower of Glass, Robert Silverberg
My absolute favorite Silverberg novel is Starborne. Yes. Starborne. Tower of Glass, though carefully constructed and certainly full of interesting intellectual fodder, fails in any sort of human element. The whole subplot with Manuel Krug's android and human loves was a pain in the ass. You really couldn't think of any way to do this than to pose a philosophical question around some dude's dick?

-Guardians of the Secret Ways: The Fire Duke by Joel Rosenberg
This wasn't bad, actually. I didn't really enjoy the Torrie/Maggie relationship, as Maggie was waay more interesting than Torrie. Ian Silverstein was a fun character, and the Norse mythology tie-in was done thoroughly and well. As for Hardwood, North Dakota? Pretty much as fictional as...as, well, Valhalla. I still liked this novel, which opened with a dude in the back of a car eating a joint and ended with 3 warriors returning from a secret world of Norse mythology.