  My new car stereo needs an " Emo"  setting.  I find myself overwhelmed with entertainment options lately,
 and like a computer trying to run too many tasks at once,  it causes me to freeze up and do little more than stare at a slowly scrolling IRC window all evening.  In light of my haul from England,  both from book shops and Graham's Aunt Susan,  who has the best house in the whole world,  I have put myself on hiatus from buying any more books until I've finished more of the ones I already own.
 It doesn't help that I already had a backlog of books I hadn't read before I left;  working at a used book shop with a really good discount will do that to a person.  I should spend more of my time working through that backlog and less staring at this computer screen,  but then I also have all those games I should play and those DVDs I really should watch at some point,  having shelled out $ 20 or so for them and all,  and I really need to edit up some of my pictures so I can get them online,
 and maybe there's something more to read on urlLink AlterNet. org ,  or by some miracle urlLink Warabi has updated with more illustrated episode reviews and not more picutres of Transformers urlLink Armada and urlLink Energon characters as hot anime chicks.  So I just sit here surfing when I could be doing things that will reduce my backlog.  I just took an hour's break to read another chapter of the ass-
kicked old copy of A People's History of the United States I've been working on for weeks ( having taken about a week off to read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ,  which I really liked)  So I guess what I'm trying to say is,  if I'm not around much,  if I'm not updating much,  bear with me.  I've got a lot of work to do.
