Make Your Move?

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous Instant Messager conversations I’ve had in a long time. And who’s the culprit of making it stupid? Myself, like always; I just happen to think I’ve out-absurded myself this time. 

marlou: yow
nightdreamer: yow you back
nightdreamer: what’s up?
marlou: hahah
marlou: im trying to learn chess again
nightdreamer: i thought you had mad chess skillz?
nightdreamer: what happened?
marlou: haha i stopped playing for 2 years
marlou: i forgot the openings. im still good in the middle game not that good with openings and end games
marlou: well im learning the openings again
nightdreamer: learning the openings?
nightdreamer: and the closings?
marlou: yea
marlou: openings
marlou: like lines
nightdreamer: you know for some reason all these sound really erotic
nightdreamer: it could be like “you know, i don’t have sex as good as i used to anymore”
nightdreamer: “i’m still good at the middle of the acts, but i’m useless when it comes to foreplay and climaxing!”
nightdreamer: ok i am apparently bored
marlou: hahaha
marlou: yea
marlou: you are
marlou: what the
marlou:
marlou: well sex is natural:D
marlou: chess isnt
marlou: you gotta study it
nightdreamer: what the hell!
marlou: yea
marlou: and sex is physical
marlou: chess is a mental thing
nightdreamer: oh yeah? you mean you get to have sex with people without even trying to go through the impressing the girls with all the smartaleckery or stimulating conversations that comprise most of the dating process?
nightdreamer: either you’re dating girls who are really stupid, or you’re a gigolo.
marlou: hahha
marlou: chess is more casual than sex:D
nightdreamer: chess is more casual than sex? pshfftzizzle.
nightdreamer: i would think they’re, just the same?
nightdreamer: in that you rock the castle by pawning the queen?
marlou: hahahha
marlou: whats wrong with you:))
nightdreamer: oh nothing. i’m just baffled by why you think chess and sex are different, that’s all.
marlou: they are
marlou:
marlou: sex is easier than chess:D you dont think as much
nightdreamer: that’s if you’re having bad sex! if you’re having good sex then you’d ch– right, i’m not pursuing this topic.
marlou: hahaha
marlou: yea
marlou: im getting better
nightdreamer: at what?
nightdreamer: ok please don’t answer.
nightdreamer: please please please please don’t answer.
marlou: chess ahahaha
marlou: im getting better
marlou: let’s play
nightdreamer: no way
marlou: haaha why

*nightdreamer ignores marlou for the rest of the day*

Progress Report part 2

So this is the 39th week of the 2008, and I’m sad to say that I’m not doing so well in keeping up with this year’s goal of finishing 52 books total.

Anyway, I figure this is utterly boring, this list of books that I’m posting here for apparently no particular readers other than myself, but if anyone wants me to give my opinion on any of the books that I’ve read, please tell me so through my comment box.

1. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
2. The Bartimaeus Trilogy vol 2: Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud
3. The Bartimaeus Trilogy vol 3: Ptolemy’s Gate by Jonathan Stroud
4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
5. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
6. Spiderwick vol 1: The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
7. Spiderwick vol 2: The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
8. Odyssey by Homer
9. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
10. Ulysses by James Joyce
11. Robert’s Rules of Writing by Robert Massello (reread)
12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
13. Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson
14. Who Goes There? by John W Campbell
15. Nerves by Lester del Rey
16. Universe by Robert A Heinlein
17. The Marching Morons by Cyril M Kornbluth
18. Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C L Moore
19. …And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell
20. The Ballad of Lost C’Mell by Cordwainer Smith
21. Baby is Three by Theodore Sturgeon
22. With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson
23. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
24. Black Boy by Richard Wright
25. Way of the Shepherd by Kevin Leman and William Pentak
26. English Plain and Simple by Jose A Carillo
27. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
29. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
32. Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
33. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
34. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
35. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
36. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
37. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

And I still haven’t found a copy of The Leopard by Giuseppe Lampedusa. Is that, like, the Holy Grail of novels?