{"id":11178,"date":"2014-03-22T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2014-03-22T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T03:37:06","slug":"saturday-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got word yesterday of some fraud on my debit card — no, I wasn’t at a Charleston service station, thank you very much — so I had to go into my bank this morning to pick up a replacement.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day was even less exciting than that. I re-watched Clue<\/i> for some reason — it’s on Netflix, so, y’know, there<\/i> — and the latest episode of Hannibal<\/i>. I read some Kaleidotrope<\/i> submissions, and I finished reading What Is the What<\/i> by Dave Eggers, a novel based on the life of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng. <\/p>\n

I liked the book, particularly Deng’s voice that comes through as a character, and the way the story is structured, but I’m not sure it’s brilliant or illuminating of the human condition. If it weren’t a true<\/i> story, for instance, I don’t think I’d have liked it half as much. But still, it wasn’t bad. <\/p>\n

I am glad to be finished, though: I’ve actually been reading the book since late February, and it will be nice to move on to something else. According to my Goodreads challenge<\/a>, I’ve only read 12 of 1 book for the year.<\/p>\n

This evening, I watched Akira<\/a>, which was…strange. On the one hand, it’s a very straightforward post-apocalyptic psychic powers kind of story. But it’s also…strange. I’m tempted to look into the original manga, which apparently goes into a lot more detail.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was pretty much my Saturday. I didn’t do any writing today, though I have been writing every other day this week. It’s not been great<\/i> — I’ve filled several pages in my notebook but wouldn’t necessarily want a lot of it in the final story — but it’s keeping the story alive for me and moving me in the direction I need to go with it. So there’s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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