A Trafficker in Climaxes

June 28 can’t come soon enough. It’s the day the new book for Read Hard! will be announced which is always a reason to celebrate. One of the two days every month when buying a new new (as opposed to thrifted/second hand) book is justifiable. Not that all the other days are spared really, because earlier this week, I went home lugging around four newly thrifted books. The only difference is that impulsive book shopping always makes me feel a little guilty afterwards while buying for a book club doesn’t. :P

Anyway, I always forget to bring home my copy of Nabokov’s Lolita from its place in my cubicle shelf. I have been meaning to read it but honestly, it is a difficult book to finish. It’s too beautiful which can also mean, too staggering and filled with numerous big words. It’s a book for intelligent people. Reading it has become a tedious exercise that requires much brain processing. I’ll get around to it but right now, I just want to enjoy light reading.

New favorite book! My copy of A Clockwork Orange is beautiful. My boyfriend got it for me! WEEEE.

Also read two volumes of The Sandman Library because I bought them, they’re nice and they must be read.

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they’ll keep being wrong!

This xkcd comic is an accurate summary of my life; or the part of it that I spend on the internet anyway (which is A LOT). Yes, I am extremely condescending online and I am not very fond of people whom I have major differences with. I tend to impose my thoughts and opinions on forums but I’m learning to just give up on it and move on, because yknow, it gets boring after some time. Also, I get pleasure in pissing others to the point of them losing their control, slipping into infractions and getting banned. I have tried it and it is very sweet indeed.

The Holy Week is quiet and slow and it gave me a chance to inspect my life.

I confuse myself. :(

I don’t seem to fit into any stereotype which might be cool but really I do, and not just one but A LOT. I feel like I’m too cool to be a geek and I’m too geeky to be cool. An extrovert who grew up to be so introverted to the point of distress. It’s funny how I was “awarded” the Gift of Gab in high school only to end up to losing the ability to chat several years later (okay, I chat but not offline¹).

I am a walking contradiction. :(

I do not know my niche.

Which geek are you? Click photo.

I know that I geek over some things but I am not a geek on any field. I like comics but I’m not into mainstream Marvel/DC superheroes. I like movies, but I like them all. I download a lot and watch too little of it. I like TV shows but it’s agonizing to watch them endlessly for an entire day.  My attention span cannot stand it. I like books and my interest in them might be the one thing that can win me an otaku spot but I haven’t been reading enough books lately. I like Physics but I have lost confidence in Math to actually excel in it. I was tormented with too much Math before I could learn to like it. Numbers are boring, applications of it and theorizing over the universe on the other hand, is übercool. Also, I like music but I fail at playing any instruments. I admit though that it is more of a failure in trying than anything else. Trying to learn an instrument is hard when you are surrounded with insanely talented people. I love programming and coding but I don’t have the grades to show for it. Also, I can be too shy.

I do not fit in. :( ²

¹ Yes, that’s a Sheldon Cooper quote for you.
² :P I am constipated. lol

P.S. I can’t believe I forgot to link the comic to xkcd.

I found out about Clumsy from a few guys I follow on tumblr who were flooding my dashboard with pages from the novel around two to three weeks ago. I finally finished reading it just now and though it wasn’t anything life-changing or amazingly spectacular, it was a pleasant read from start to finish.

Clumsy is a story of two people in a long distance relationship and the book shows highlights of their relationship – from their first meeting to their breakup over the phone and through e-mail.

Anyone who has ever been in a romantic relationship that eventually fell apart (as relationships often do) will identify with Clumsy. Brown tells the story of his long distance relationship with Theresa  through a series of black and white, roughly-drawn sketches of their moments together. Every page captures days that may seem trivial at that moment but are the kind that you look back on in retrospect.

I really don’t have anything negative to say about this book other than how some texts were quite hard to read. I understand that Brown’s sketches were clumsy (no pun intended) but he could’ve at least spared the readers from getting headaches caused by reading sketchy and almost-incomprehensible fonts.

Below are some of my favorite pages from the book. They’re cute, funny and bittersweet. Enjoy!