photo friday: lines and arrows

I'm not sure if I should say that today has been a "lucky day" (hence ruining the possibility of the aforementioned luck), but it's been a fairly good day overall...

It does seem like a number of things have just fallen into place, even if it's only stupid things like traffic lights changing when you need them to, the bus arriving just as you get to the stop, being engaged with work all day and feeling appropriately useful at certain points, getting to wear jeans, Morning Tea with homemade cupcakes (during which I should have shut the hell up, because I somehow volunteered to make my Rocky Road for them all at some point), getting picked up from work, Ma bringing back Smiggle products from Melbourne and to top it all off there being a general air of frivolity around work all day, mostly caused by the fact that almost everybody was going out for dinner and much boozing this evening (I begged off with the excuse of having had "a better offer"... and indeed, the finale of America's Next Top Model, woohoo go Caridee, was a better offer than spending the evening at a highly overpriced restaurant with people I see all day and don't really want to socialise with... plus I have drinks with my former work crew NEXT Friday).... dammit, where was I.... I know there was a point in there somewhere...

Anyway, things seemed to be either coming from a good place all day, or just falling into place with a minimum of fuss so much that I went out at lunch and bought myself a lottery ticket for the big $5 million draw on Monday. Can't hurt, right?

In totally unrelated news... for the first time in a very, very, very long while I actually gave up on the book I was reading...

Since I finished Ash's book, I'd been trying to plow through something written in the 80's called "Raptures of the Deep", I got it from the Library Sale recently and it turned out to be this horrendous little "gay" book which broke the first rule of writing dialogue... "Always use quotation marks to indicate words that are spoken by characters".

This thing had NO quote marks of any kind and flicked from one character's speech to another character's memory to a description of the current scene without even the vaguest indication. Was there some sort of global recession on quote marks that I was unaware of up until now?

Anyway, I struggled through it for maybe 20 pages and just gave up (which I almost NEVER do, if I start something, I normally finish it... which tells you just how bad it must have been)... it might have improved, but it honestly wasn't worth the effort.

Granted, what I'm trying to fight my way through now is A Clockwork Orange, which is still a little difficult to understand with all the madeup slang, but this one I'm determined to stick with.

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