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1. I just finished Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty, which is the first in a trilogy. I enjoyed it a bunch, but I found it slowed towards the end and I wasn't quite sold on it when I was done. Has anyone read the other two? Should I read them? Usually I am the kind of person to go straight onto them, but I have quite a big to-read list ATM and I didn't have the impetus I usually do.

2. I haven't posted for ages! Because I've been away. I went down to Christchurch for not one but TWO weddings, including my first bridesmaid wedding!!! My best friend, sixth_light got married to her long-term partner, Mike, in a really sweet, really really THEM ceremony in which I was honoured to be a bridesmaid. I admit it, I nearly cried, although my mother flat-out BAWLED. It's weird to think that Lucy, who is only six months older than me, is married, but in a nice way. I think she and Mike are really good together, they really love each other, and they're going to have a terrific marriage.

All of which could also be said about the couple whose wedding I attended the next weekend, A & G; but in all other respects the weddings were really different! L & M's was a completely secular, non-traditional wedding, held indoors, quite small, and the bridal party (save Mike, of course) was all women. A & G's was really rather traditional, religious, held outdoors, relatively large, and the bridal party was all men. The latter two rather tickled me, actually: smoosh them together and you have one average but totally personality-less wedding.

3. During and in between those weddings I spent nearly two weeks with my Christchurch buddies, although I didn't catch up with quite as many as I wanted to. However, it was really, really nice - for both of the weekend weddings I was staying in a house with a bunch of people I really adore (first weekend, L's family plus my bestie M and old old friend C, second weekend, A & G, plus the Long Distance BF B, L (dazyndara), some gaming friends, and a bunch of people I didn't know all that well but rly like.) While this wasn't conducive to sleep, it was conducive to AWESOME. I love my Welly peeps, but I'm really missing the big smoky flat place right now.

4. There's bound to be tonnes more stuff, but I'm exhausted - I've been double-shifting this week because next week I don't have a job anymore, yikes (anyone hiring a temp for two months? I'm clever, good with words, and sort of funny.) Plus, I have new episodes of Glee and White Collar to watch, because naturally, what I really needed was a new fandom. china_shop has been writing a terrific Neal/Peter/Elizabeth WIP/series-ish thing that I highly recommend, by the way.

ETA: Oh yeah. I have some google wave invites. Comment w/your email address if you want one!

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Yeah, I just don't know that I'm going to bother. I have a big pile of books-to-read anyway, so.