- Went to a christening today. Well, the reception, actually -- I was running around the mall trying to find a suitable gift to give a four-month-old baby boy. My general rule is: Kids below a year old get clothes.
Trouble is, it's hard to find nice, cute clothing for infant boys. Nearly everything I saw were for little girls. I have to admit, children's clothing has improved drastically since I was a kid. Much prettier, for one. Anyway, I ended up buying a ridiculously cute distressed-T-shirt-and shorts set for a 6+ month-old. Well, when it comes to little kids, it always pays to buy big. They grow up so fast.
- I adore this shop. It's insane. Everything for P85 ($1.83) and they have a wide variety of things from paper lanterns to kitchen accessories to pretty printed cardboard file boxes to giant knitting needles to car fresheners to jeweled hair clips to striped and non-striped thigh-high socks. Of which I bought two pairs, just for kicks. (ETA: just realized the lameness of that joke.)
- I'm currently reading Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. As I have only read a couple of Henning Mankells so far before this, I have yet to find out just what makes Swedish crime fiction stand out from other countries' crime fiction.
- What I really should be reading, however, is Hannah Foster's The Coquette. I refuse to get caught flat-footed in grad class again.
- I need to watch Doctor Who: The End of Time again. Then all the way back to The Christmas Invasion and the rest of the Tenth Doctor's run. I'm feeling the Ten nostalgia now, oddly enough. Maybe I won't cringe so much over Series 2 (nope, no Rose nostalgia there, no sirree) and I think I've gotten pretty much used to RTD's glaring plot holes that I won't really care anymore.
- Chuck is coming back! Supernatural is coming back! Burn Notice is coming back! Whee!
Anyway,
god. Back to work tomorrow. Sigh.
