so sad i forgot to cry

Friday night

9pm/8am

I like the covers right up to my neck, with my arms in.

If "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami is Japan's answer to Corelli's Mandolin, then what the fuck is up with Japan? This wasn't even a novel. It was a collection of short stories. I was so underwhelmed that it has taken me almost two months to write this review. Mr Murakami, I suggest you try calling your "stories" "chapters", and having some of the characters stick around for longer than 30 pages if you ever hope to write the great American novel.

6/10



Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning "The Soul of a New Machine" is the best book about business management since Corelli's Mandolin.

But why the fuck I read a book about R&D in an industry closely related to my own while I was completely stressed out at work and then took it on vacation has me completely baffled. Basically it is a detailed description of the hell I regularly submit to. The same management styles. The same impossible deadlines. The same fucking lingo.

6.5/10

So I went away for a few weeks to do stuff the details of which I may or may not choose to share, but since I've been back I've had this crazy jet lag and here are my bed/wake times for the last three nights:

Tuesday night
8pm/6am

Wednesday night
7:30pm/4am

Thursday night
6pm/8am

If last night's fourteen hour sleep hasn't cured me, then I guess basically I'm just going to consider my life over. If anyone ever wants to see me again they are welcome to come over and tuck me in.

Did you guys know that "orality" is a word?

I had no fucken clue.