A series of (un)fortunate events

Yesterday I woke up with a mild sore throat. I made it through the day okay, but this morning it was worse and was accompanied by a fluish feeling, so I decided to bail and spent most of the day at home. It's been good for getting caught up on homework, though. With any luck I'll miraculously recover by tomorrow morning and be able to go on with life as usual. I watched Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events so that I wouldn't be doing homework all day long. It was definitely a different kind of story, whimsical and yet interesting in its own right. Sunny was hilarious. I prefer more realistic fantasy (if that makes any sense :)), something that almost could happen, but if you watch the movie accepting that it's whimsical and not meant to make much sense, then it's okay. I'll have to read the books sometime to see what they're like. (And I hear an LDS artist did the illustrations, too.)

So, I've been reading Jason Epstein's Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future. Have I mentioned that I love reading about books and writing and reading and all that? I do. I'm also reading a book called Rotten Rejections, about writer's rejection slips. And today I couldn't resist a trip to the bookstore and ended up with The Designer's Lexicon (which was on sale and is a great reference for graphic designers), Rosemary Edmonds's translation of War and Peace, and two Susan Cooper books (The Boggart and King of Shadows) which were only $3 each.

Speaking of books, the other day I discovered BookCrossing.com. I haven't actually participated yet, but it looks like a great idea and I plan to do so as soon as I can.

I used InDesign (CS2) for the first time today. After a couple of weeks of using Quark at school, wow, I love InDesign. The difference is incredible. I'm sure part of it is because I'm used to Adobe's keyboard shortcuts, but there's more to it than that. Quark's good to know, though.