“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither,

deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” J.R.R. Tolkien

I can’t get out of the habit of reading YA fiction even though I’m not planning on getting that teaching cedrtificate any time soon. Heh, maybe private school.

I do enjoy YA fiction. I just finished Skinned by Robin Wasserman. I would like very much to pick up the next one (www.robinwasserman.com/ ) It carries the same type of theme as Generation Dead (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Dead) and Peeps by my favorite YA author Scot Westerfeld–thattheme of prejudice and judgement–of being separate through no fault of your own.

I’m finishing up City of Bones (http://www.mortalinstruments.com/ ) by Cassandra Clare. I’d like to read the next one of those as well.

There is just*so* much more for kids to read now. I don’t know if it is better (I still remember Anne McCaffrey with great happiness) but there is more.

Have some hopeful job leads. Have a lapful of cats. Have a couple of good girlfriends who have gently smacked me about remaining in the sad zone. I also have had lots of cuddle time with my bean and J and I have had more conversations in the last two weeks than we could have in the previous 5 months. Things are getting better. I’m speeding up my knowledge of office 2007 (I have 2003 cold) and adobe premiere elements and photoshop 8. I’m going to check into learning a few more apps while I have the time. I should look into another programming language too….

Ok universe, let’s have the next thing!