I'm back for another Blog-day Wednesday! Two weeks in a row; I must be doing something right. My routine otherwise is all out of whack, but at least I'm keeping the main points in place. I'm eating mostly right, my workouts are going well, and I haven't ever been really late for work, and that's all that matters.
I figured that since I glossed over the "how we got here last week," I'd get a little more into the many many topics I have banked over the past 4 months. Today I'm going to talk a little about my new apartment, and a lot about my new favorite reading material: A Song of Ice and Fire.
1. Apartment Living Searching for an apartment is balls, especially when you don't live anywhere near the place where you're looking. For the first 4 weeks of my job I was looking for an apartment in Toronto while living in Milton, Ontario. Milton is about a half hour drive from Toronto in no traffic. The morning commute in traffic - on public transportation, mind you - is 2 hours. It is for this reason that I started reading, even though I usually slept for an hour during the longest leg of the trip.
We moved in July 1, as I have said. The place is huge, I think. It's almost 1000 square feet, which is much larger than the average offering of 750 square feet. That means a lot of room to move around, and a lot of empty space to fill with furniture. Little by little we're making progress, but until we're done the process of furnishing the apartment has consumed me. I'm always looking at furniture that will round out my vision of how the apartment is supposed to look, and I can't wait to show it off to my house-guests in the future.
It's kind of funny how one's priorities shift over time as they come to realize what's more important in their lives. Let me tell you, you'll never truly realize this until you find yourself buying a clothes iron. I also take a great deal of pleasure in my after-work ritual: listening to jazz on my vintage stereo while washing dishes.
I must have (a good knockoff) of this chair. It costs $6000 and there are two of them at my work.
2. Beating the Heat This summer in Toronto is hot. So damn HOT! Maybe I never noticed it before because I've only ever been in and out of the city, but every day is 38 C, "feels like 43." Gods, it's awful, and not having an air conditioner is even worse. You have no idea. Some nights I'm walking around covered in sweat. It's unpleasant.
So I figured out how much A/C my apartment needs and told my roommate, and the guy says he's not getting one for his room. He can sweat his ass off, then. I'd prefer not to function like this, and I doubt anyone would want to hang out in my apartment with me without A/C.
Carried this baby home today on the bus. I can't wait to get it running!
3. A Song of Ice and Fire Since I had so much time on the bus, I borrowed the books from my dear friend Lanfear and began reading about 7 weeks ago. She even has the older copies with the original covers. I'm now a few chapters into A Storm of Swords, and I'm really loving the series.
Having watched the show first, I find the depth that the books offer to be much more refreshing. It also offers a unique take on the show because it makes me wonder why they decided to do things one way or another.
Game of Thrones was more or less scene-for-scene with the first season of the HBO show, while Clash of Kings was much, MUCH better than the second season of Game of Thrones. So many characters in Clash of Kings get no exposure at all in the show. I pretty much had no idea who Roose Bolton was after watching the show, and now reading the books it is that much more clear. Of course I still hit points where I was like, "Aw shit, another Theon/Sansa chapter," but at least they were still better than Sansa in GoT. Obviously whenever I hit Bran/Arya/Jon chapters I'm like, "AWWWWW, YEAH!" Show Daenerys is also terrible when compared to book Daenarys.
I have so many theories about what's going on now that I've read the book. I really really really want to know what actually went on with Rhaegar and Lyanna, and what she made Ned promise. I have a guess, to be sure.
After A Storm of Swords I think I'm going to take a minor break from the series. My friend is currently reading 50 Shades of Grey and she said she'd lend it to me when she's done.
The Battle of the Trident - Robert and Rhaegar at the Ruby Ford: one of the most epic moments in the whole series, and there's literally no mention of it in the show.
Valar morghulis. See you next week!
Tonight's music is my very favorite song. I listened to it every night walking home at 3 AM after studying all day and all night, and it is the PERFECT song for an empty city at night.
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It really isn't that hot. Just close all the windows and doors and shut the blinds. It's like 26 degrees right now at my computer, pretty much the same yesterday during the heat blaze.
obesechicken13 United States. July 19 2012 12:36. Posts 4197
Yeah, it's 26 C at 11:19 pm! That's hot to begin with; imagine during the day. I take all the necessary steps to keep cool with what I have, but I don't yet have blinds in the apartment. Blinds only prevent direct sun exposure though; in reality they don't do a lot for heat performance - same thing with shades. Exterior shading is far better (i.e. awnings and shutters), but who has those anymore.
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Arcanefrost Belgium. July 20 2012 02:22. Posts 1119
It seems pretty clear, but what screws with that theory are the fact that Rhaegar seemed pretty happy with Elia of Dorne. In Dany's visions in Clash of Kings, we see Rhaegar looking very happy with Elia at Aegon's birth, but we also know that he chose Lyanna over Elia as the Queen of Love and Beauty, and he 'kidnapped' her later on.
There's also the dubious nature of her death, in a gown soaked with blood about her abdomen. It would seem to me that she died in childbirth with Jon Snow. That would give Jon his Stark blood, while the recessive traits of the Targaryens would have been hidden, like the Targaryen blood in the Baratheon family.
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