Eliyes

Today in the mail I received four Star Trek TNG audiobooks on cassette and a walkman. :D

The books are Q-in-Law (read by Majel Barrett and John de Lancie!!! *fangirl scream&flail*), I, Q (read by John de Lancie and Peter David *fangirl flapping*), Gulliver's Fugitives (read by Jonathan Frakes *huge grin*), and Reunion (read by Gates McFadden *double thumbs up*).

I just need to get some batteries for the walkman. I wonder if I'll still be able to fuck up nearby cell phone reception by hitting the fast-forward button? >:}

Thank you, Kalloway~~~~~~

So, we went to our FLCS today -- in its role as FLGS, since buying a newly arrived gamebook was the goal -- and I hit the 25¢ rack and scored a 4-issue run of Flash from the middle of Wally becoming a responsible human being. (i.e. Piper is working on him, but Linda is not yet on the scene.) There is Grodd! And Vixen! And Rex the Wonder Dog (I'm not kidding)! And Chunk! And Ralph Dibny!

I have yet to decide which delights me more: Ralph getting superspeed piggyback rides from Barry, or Piper getting them from Wally. Ralph so clearly enjoys them; he tends to yell "WOOOOO!" and extend his neck ahead. Piper has blousy polkdot shirts and always has to hang onto his hat. I think, ultimately, I'm just very amused that piggyback rides are a speedster thing. I mean, I don't know about Jay (his hat might pose problems) or the Quick clan, and Bart's been pretty scrawny compared to anyone he might carry for much of his existance, but even John Fox gave Piper piggyback rides. Maybe it's a redhaired friend thing? (Maybe I could score one!)

I also picked up an issue of the ST:TNG comic because it featured Ms. John Sheppard Sonya Gomez, who's growing on me more and more as I accumulate Starfleet Corps of Engineers books. She's got Ro Laren's hairdo and her skin is an alarming greyish colour, but I will rea dit anyway as it was only 25¢.

On the way home, there was a bake sale. :3 I bought cupcakes and cookies. :3

And window shopping at ThinkGeek.com today has me making grabby hands all through the What's New section. Some highlights:
I would be dangerously creative with this stuff.
Had this existed when I was a child, I might have missed hours of drawing She-Ra's costume on my friends in chalk, but I like it anyway!
Something for Brainiac 5 -- or from him? Hmm...
There was even a t-shirt that mentioned telnet! (But as it was a LotR thing, I'm not that interested.)

Time for tea and cupcakes~ :9

Good thing: Sue is at a local museum and me and the roomie both have the day off!

Bad thing: Turns out the museum is closed on Mondays.

Good thing: However, the Chapters book store across the harbour has The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs in stock, so we make an outing! They also have a bunch of nifty stuff, an art book the roomie wanted, and several novels I've been trying to track down.

Arguably bad thing: Even using the $30 left on the gift card I got for X-mas, I still spent a little over $40 there.

Good thing: We eventually found the wily Toys'R'Us and not only do they stock Transformers toys again, they had them on sale!

Bad thing: ...So of course there was nothing left. Well. Nothing that wasn't for 4 year olds. (I did have fun making Hound's guns pop out, but we didn't buy anything.)

Good thing: The food court has a New York Fries now, and the mediterranean place makes awesome falafels.

Bad thing: I LOST MY BUS PASS. Somewhere. Maybe on the bus to the mall, maybe in the Chapters' ladies room, maybe walking to the mall from the Chapters, maybe in the Toys'R'Us, etc. No clue. Gonna have to buy tickets for the rest of the month.

Good thing: I no longer keep my bank card in with my bus pass, so the pass is all I lost. Phew!

Books purchased by yours truly: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (since I have never read it and it was on sale -- I've been on a '20s kick lately), Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife: Redoubtable (I only find this series sporadically, but I've reread the ones I can find several times, so yay for getting another one), and most of Tanya Huff's "Confederation" series: A Confederation of Valor, which is an omnibus of the first two books, Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor; The Heart of Valor, which is the third book and the one that initially hooked me when I borrowed it from a coworker; and the fifth book, The Truth of Valor, now out in hardback. (I already own the 4th book, Valor's Trial. Actually, I own the 2nd book, too, but I can never find the 1st book except as an omnibus.) Space Marines!

Also, I saw Crossover there in paperback, instead of TPB (which is how I got it). I really recommend this book and this author, especially to any of you who want your sci-fi with intense action, moral debates, strong female characters, and people of colour. (Although not Cassandra.)

Today we went to a comic shop, a used bookstore, and a new bookstore.

At the comic shop, I bought nothing. I did tell them what I thought of their new layout (it sucks in terms of traffic flow)... just as the music in the shop stopped playing. Basically everyone heard me. *sigh*

Skipping ahead, at the new bookstore (by which I mean, the store that sells new books) I was hoping to get Cryoburn but they didn't have it. Apparently only two stores in the area have it, and they are both very far away. *shakes fist* It's the new Vorkosigan book, and I really want to read it, so I guess I'll order it from Amazon.ca.

At the used bookstore, I hit the jackpot. >3 This is a store with floor-to-ceiling books, on two levels. The only problem with that is that sometimes you need a ladder to see the shelves, and I... have an issue with ladders. But today, I climbed that ladder! Yes! And then I moved it further along and climbed it again! At one point I had one arm stuck through the stairwell to the second level so that I wouldn't lean over too far and fall. (The scifi/fantasy section is under the stairwell.) Even over and above the arguable merit of confronting one of my fears, it was well worth it for what I found. :3

( BOOKS! 8D )

And then I had a yummy sandwich from the deli. :9


¹ "They" is used literally here; "L.A. Graf" is actually multiple writers. Usually Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone, and once also including Melissa Crandall.

I love them. They're so teeny. X3

I only bought one DC figure today -- the rest were Marvel. Yes, my ratio is no longer DC/25:Marvel/2. Shocking!

From DC, I picked up Wildcat, one of the Cool Old Dude Brigade members. :3 I wuvs him.

For Marvel, I already had Wild Child, so I got him Diamond Lil and Aurora to keep him company (they also had a Snowbird, but she was a very expensive limited edition, and Shaman, but it was whoa, f'ugly, so I didn't get them). My Alpha Flight pack thus increased, I moved onto New Mutants, picking up Cannonball (in the purple-and-goggles costume), and Magma. But the one that caught my attention in the first place and started this most recent mini-binge was Gargoyle. Oh, Isaac. You and Koriand'r have, like, the same taste in clothes. You are my New Defenders secret crush (as opposed to my obvious New Defenders crushes: Beast, Iceman, Angel, Candy Southern and Cloud).

<3

Now, I am going to reapply sunscreen and go to sinfonica's house to watch SGA and eat ice cream. :D

Au revoir! *waves*