Shhh, I'm hiding from my music assignment in the World Wide Web right now. It's really big, covered in black and white, and it can even breathe fire. (The music assignment, I mean, not the World Wide Web. even though it's also really big and can breathe fire, depending on whether you're technophobic or not.)(That said, it doesn't have to be covered in black and white.)(The World Wide Web, I mean, not the music assignment.) If you see it, tell it I'm off looking for my Irish Peacocks and Scarlet Marquess. That should put it off from sniffing me out for a while. Just... don't... tell it I'm here.

First thing: I'm probably one of the very few people to get their hands on the first batch of City of Ashes. I strode into PageOne one Sunday afternoon, feeling in my bones that something special was going to happen. I was wearing my jingle shoes. They jingle when I walk, and they make me feel cool and powerful and able to feel in my bones whether something special is going to happen or not.

Anyway, I strode into PageOne, and there they were, staring at me in the face.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room, your heart pounding because you know a crush of yours is there, and for some reason, time stands still, you can hardly breathe and it's like you're the only two people in the room?

That's me with City of Ashes. I stood there looking down at it with my hands on my hips for five minutes. Nothing else mattered. It was chanting a hynoptic tune, putting me under its spell. It was taunting me with its $161.20 price tag. Here it is with one of my jingle shoes rooted to the spot (not so powerful after all, were they?):

I iz lying @ ur feet, messin wif ur brane

Of course I bought the book in the end. Clary's red hair was just too much for me to take.

Second thing: I was disappointed when I heard Robert Pattison will be playing Edward in the Twilight movie. But then I did some more research and found this - a picture of the Cullens. Now I'm willing to give Twilight the benefit of the doubt. I've made a very important discovery this week - stick a bunch of people in front of a camera and have them walking towards it in attack formation. It suddenly makes them 10 times cooler.

In other news, I'll be Nerdfighting this Saturday! Yippee!

Currently Reading City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments) By Cassandra Clare see related