i cannot think of an inspired title because i am suffering from brain degeneration and lack of sleep

just finished reading : "special topics in calamity physics"

dont judge a book by its cover. usually i'd disagree ... i'm prone to thinking that if the cover isn't inspired enough to give insight into the book then it's not worth it. awful , i know ... judgemental too, but (to paraphrase a quote i read somewhere some time - 'life is too short to learn german') - life is too short to read a crappy book. this book is great. its intelligent and tiring (i could NOT have written this because I would have been too exhausted) and very very eccentric. and a lot of people wont like it. but i did because i like books that are different - i get to read a LOT... all the new books in fact ... and many of them are the same. interchangeable. this one is good. and the cover (in my opinion) reeks of 'chick lit' and should be done away with because it puts a lot of people off.

And there was a really good bit i wanted to quote here for you all, but i cant remember what page it is on - the 514 page book is so intensive by the time i got to the end i bearly remember what had happened in the beginning. if anyone out there reads it (and some of you will ... well ... ONE of you will because you're getting it for christmas) ;) please let me know what you think.

in other extremely important news - i went shopping with grandmere today. it was long. i'm talking 4 hours long. and we were in rosebank and all we went to was musica, woolworths, clicks and the fishmonger. i forget how long it takes her to walk places.

its fun with grams ... we were attended to by a pierced stoned shop assistant "how on earth does he blow his nose with that thing in there?" pondered grams. and when she wanted to order some judy dench dvd thing (grams LOVES the woman... wants to be her), she gave him MY number and commanded him to phone me because she would be 'unreachable' ..... riiiiight grams. she laughed.

"look sarahkins ... there is a dress for you!" (after i had pointed out this beautiful dress in stoned cherry that i love and covet but is waaay too expensive and when i am an ambassador i will buy it with my government credit cards and grams said she would save and buy it for my birthday and i told her to sew it and i think she just might... i digress) and pointed in a window.

"grams... ahem... that's a lingerie shop. that is a 'teddy'"

"oh. i thought it a bit skimpy"

last night shaks, tom and i went to see 'casino royale'. yawn. firstly : i have never stayed awake for an entire bond movie before, i think they are dumb. however, last night i managed to stay awake- but that was not because it was riveting but because the slush puppie i had to drink was in a carton big enough to bathe a baby seal in and so i had a lot of sugar. secondly : daniel craig? no. not a bond. shame... he tries though. thirdly : it was this odd grating montage of violence and super uberly cheesy lines. so - suffice to say, i was not super impressed. but for what it was? i didn't hate it ;)