Big Random Post

Another big random post. I'm going to warn in advance that this one will be a little whinier than usual... just noticed that a number of topics have touched on wistful yearnings and such, which tends to lead to mildly depressed thoughts. So if you have low tolerance for that sort of thing, you might want to skip.

Dream Foo, first! Another 'school dream', with wistfulness.
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Anyway, since people I went to school with did appear in the dream, I did some idle googling of the names of people I remember but I haven't heard of pretty much since HS.
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Ah, nostalgia.

Moving on, a meme. Stolen from _cinn:
If you had your choice of any celebrity or ficitional character (living or dead) who would you choose to fill the following roles in your life:
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Book Foo:
Finished: Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card (reread)
Started: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman (reread) - Wednesdays
Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card (reread) - Fridays & Sundays + Laundry

Instead of going into deeper thoughts on Ender's Game, I think I'm going to list a few quotes that struck me more than usual this time around. Minor thoughts on NW and SFtD with only tiny spoilers.
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Lessee, what else... I think that's it for now, actually. If I think of anything else it'll go in the next big random post.