Friday giggles

Today's c_and_a is fabulous. And so is the novel 'Trust Fund Boys' by Rob Byrnes. If it has you laughing by page three, it's good. This is my new motto.
And it's good that I'm laughing, too, because today is cold and gloomy and tallin won't be home until tomorrow. But at least he's coming home for the weekend and a few days before going back on Tuesday night.

*boggles*

The PSU daycare center with the waiting list from hell just called.
Sean's starting there January 3rd, full time. They have a space open in their Turtle Room.
*commences bouncing around squealing happily and madly*

Douglas Coupland is love. Really.

The first Coupland I remember reading was probably Shampoo Planet. I have all of his fiction up to Miss Wyoming, and reread them every so often - Life After God is and always has been one of my Five Desert Island books - I'd say he's one of my primary influences, writingwise. Not deliberate. That's just the way things turned out. But I read All Families are Psychotic and was just ... disinterested. I couldn't finish it. So I was reluctant to pick up any of his later stuff for some reason, I don't know why. Anyone else read it? Does it strike you as different than his earlier stuff, was it just a bad week for me, or is it slow to start?
Just tore through Hey Nostradamus! like the pages were on fire. Beautiful stuff. I want my own copy, and I can't wait for Eleanor Rigby and jPod next year.
He'll be in Portland the 31st of January. I'm going. I'm not sure where yet - I assume Powells' - but I'm going, damnit. I want a personally signed copy of Life After God. (To go along with my generic signed first edition of Girlfriend in a Coma.)
And now I have a new Banana Yoshimoto. (Someday I hope to learn enough Japanese to read her stuff pre-translation.) She and Coupland go together somehow.
*dives into Goodbye Tsugumi* Yes, I have read three full books today. It happens sometimes.