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Oct. 1st, 2005 11:49 pmVerin. Brown or Black? This is the one that bugs me. Plenty of theories I find interesting, but the Verin thing is the one I always come back to. I think it's because I like her. She's kind of vague on the outside, but sharp where it counts. I'm going with not Black because otherwise I'll be sad. I really can't picture her as evil but what's up with her inconsistencies? It's kind of fun to be able to read random stuff online about an entire series during a reread of which you're at book two. I'm pretty bummed that I won't finish them in time to start reading the new release (11th book) on time, though. I guess I should spend a little more time reading books instead of theories, but I'm on a Seanchan/Whitecloack chapter and both of those things bore the crap out of me so a double dose hurts.
Slow, happy day at home. Tomorrow, much food, much family. We're having a semi-surprise birthday party for my grandfather, and will probably be spending the night. I have an eye appointment on Monday in Morehead--I couldn't bear to find a new eye doctor--so it's either that or drive home tomorrow night and drive back on Monday. Unfortunately, that means that the most practical course is to take separate cars up. That feels totally stupid, but it is actually the least amount of driving time for both of us, and the least gas. And what I should be doing right now is getting my stuff together but I am so not in the mood. I'm calling it a semi-surprise birthday thing because my entire family seems to pretend that he's stupid when it comes to his birthday. Surprise, surprise, sometime around the end of September (his birthday is the 27th) they will invariably host a big family dinner event and invite him down, and he will come, grumbling all the while, and then everyone will say "surprise! happy birthday!" and he will grunt and pretend not to care but grin a little, and then we will eat until we are so full that we want to die, and then we go home and come back to do it again the next year. And this isn't something that anyone talks about. I honestly don't think anyone has ever really noticed it before. My grandfather is actually a very smart man so I don't know exactly why they all think he doesn't know what's going on.
Slow, happy day at home. Tomorrow, much food, much family. We're having a semi-surprise birthday party for my grandfather, and will probably be spending the night. I have an eye appointment on Monday in Morehead--I couldn't bear to find a new eye doctor--so it's either that or drive home tomorrow night and drive back on Monday. Unfortunately, that means that the most practical course is to take separate cars up. That feels totally stupid, but it is actually the least amount of driving time for both of us, and the least gas. And what I should be doing right now is getting my stuff together but I am so not in the mood. I'm calling it a semi-surprise birthday thing because my entire family seems to pretend that he's stupid when it comes to his birthday. Surprise, surprise, sometime around the end of September (his birthday is the 27th) they will invariably host a big family dinner event and invite him down, and he will come, grumbling all the while, and then everyone will say "surprise! happy birthday!" and he will grunt and pretend not to care but grin a little, and then we will eat until we are so full that we want to die, and then we go home and come back to do it again the next year. And this isn't something that anyone talks about. I honestly don't think anyone has ever really noticed it before. My grandfather is actually a very smart man so I don't know exactly why they all think he doesn't know what's going on.
