Reading, Working, and Listening

I've still been reading like a maniac.  I read Ender's Game during the end of last week and finished it up Saturday night.  It was good.  I remembered parts because I'd tried unsuccessfully to read it years ago, after my 6th grade teacher had read it to us.  This time I understood a lot more of it, too.  It's a dang intense book.  I stayed up until 3 something Saturday night/ Sunday morning to finish it.  Bad idea.  I the ending totally creeped me out for some reason.  So there I was, mind buzzing with wars, buggers, alien worlds and all sorts of other creepy stuff, at 3 in the morning, trying to go to sleep.  Never doing that again.
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So, today at work I started Specials.  I just finished it tonight.  What a disappointing ending.  Still a fairly good book, but the story just... ended.  And it confused me, too.  That might have been partly because I read it so fast, but still, I didn't feel any emotional closure.  There's so much more I want to know!  *sigh*  I'll get over it soon enough...

I borrowed a new book from a friend in my ward.  It's Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline.  My friend said it was really good, and it's a pretty quick read, too.  That's good.  I need that, because with my hectic schedule I hardly have time to get into any deep, slow books, however good they are.

Speaking of my hectic schedule, the work never ends.  Even today, on Memorial Day, I was scheduled for work at Info for 4 hours, then I ended up going to the Census Office for 2 hours so that I can take Friday night off to go to a Tri-Ward dance.  Then I raced home to prepare for an FHE that no one ended up coming to.  Just me and 'Dad' waiting around to see if anyone would show up.  One finally did about 45 minutes later, but we'd given up by then.  *sigh*  I guess we can forgive them, it is a holiday afterall...

Something very happy did happen today, though.  I got a CD by one of my favorite independent artists, a guy I discovered at a Grand Pianos Live competition here at BYU.  His name is Nik Day and he sings and plays the piano and the guitar. He makes me melt.  He sounds a lot like Michael Buble.  Love!  You can listen to my favorite song of his, the one I fell in love with at the competition (the one I recored on my phone so I could listen to it if I never saw this guy again) on his MySpace page here.  It's called "How Could Life Get Any Better."  Seriously, it's melt-making.

That's life.  Tomorrow's back to the grind.  I cannot wait until I get to come home for a whole month!  Beaches, theme parks, and parties here I come!