babbling-Meghan-Neil Gaiman purchases-Life and Before and After

hmm. I was in the mood for writing an entry and then I got distracted and the sun in my eyes and yeah. I can't remember what I wanted to write about. I'll just start somewhere.

I've submitted my LJ to ljreview (thanks to ffenics--I don't trust myself enough to do a good job reviewing, but I wanna see what a reviewer has to say). So I'll see what happens--it'll take a couple weeks, prolly (depending on who I get and what-not).

lol. Katie just said, "Let's see if he notices," to me. After a second, I realized what she was talking about and we both put our arms into bear-hugging post simultaneously. It's a twin thing ;) We tend to say the same thing at the same time a lot. But, contrary to popular belief, we don't have a psychic link. If I feel bad when Katie's upset, it's because I've seen she's upset and I'm sad because I love her. (as you may have noticed)
Speaking of which, she's just gotten a postcard from David (which makes her happy, and thus. . .). He's in Europe til the end of July. I think he's in France now, he was in London at the beginning of the week, and he's going to go to Rome.

We went to the mall with friend Meghan (marishi) today. It was good that I got to see her because (::sniffles::) she's moving to Pennsylvania next week! Ack! Meghan! She sat with us at lunch in eighth grade and sang Billy Joel songs with us--she played the harmonica on her sandwich to Piano Man! She laughs at anything! I got introduced to oreos and peanut butter at her house! ::sigh:: I'll miss Meghan. Luckily she's still going to be online.

Moving on, it was a good trip for all involved. Katie got a stuffed Arthur doll and an Arthur book ^_^ Meghan got an X-Men Evolutions comic she wanted.
And I got Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries, illustrated by P. Craig Russel, and Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days. The latter is a collection of comics he wrote for DC, including a Swamp Thing story (I hear a lot about Swamp Thing but I've never read anything with him in it) and "Hold Me", illustrated by Dave McKean, which GNeil says is "probably my favorite of all my short stories". Whoa. So I did very well. Murder Mysteries is a hardcover, which is lovely. Midnight Days has a crease in the cover, but I don't care. :D I'm really happy about my purchases. I mean, I hadn't even heard of either of these! It was awesome. We went to both bookstores at the mall, and at B. Dalton they had this whole little mini-Neil Gaiman section (I almost creamed my pants when I saw it! whoa. I was practically in schock!!) and it was awesome being able to look at everything there and say "I have that, I have that, I have that. . ." (except, of course, for Murder Mysteries, which I now have.) So I now have 5 new GNeil writings to read! That's awesome. Whoa. I definitely need to get started! But I also still need to do my summer reading. Ah well.

Katie got a lot of Dar Williams songs (another reason why I love her!) including "As Cool As I Am"--finally! I've wanted that for a long time and haven't been able to get it. It's a fantastic song. I keep listening to it over and over. (and the other new Dar Williams songs we have)

Life is good.

( philosophizing/theorizing. rambling, really. )

Neil Gaiman

I just read Murder Mysteries and it was fantastic. And it lead to a train of thought about how Neil Gaiman has changed me. He looks at the world in such a. . . I'm not sure what word I want. Original, I think. All his writing is so creative and original and different. It's amazing. You read it, and you see this new point of view. And it broadens your mind. It opens you up to new ways of thinking. (when I say "you", I really mean me--I can only tell how it's affected me) And it changes you. I don't know. It's fantastic and wonderful and fun.

[I'm feeling particularly poetic, if you didn't notice.]

I interrupted Katie in writing an e-mail to David, I just had this thought and I knew I'd lose it, my memory being what it is, so I borrowed the computer.