Soooooo bored

Aaaaargh I have the giantest case of the don't wannas. It's the last week of school - the last three and a half days of school! - and I'm hardly going to be seeing my students because they're having parties and other fun stuff (fun stuff, she says darkly) - but I have to be here anyway because I have to fulfill a certain number of hours.

Even if all I'm doing during those hours is twiddling my thumbs while my students slaughter pinatas.

And all I want to do is take long walks to the library - incidentally, the library doesn't have the complete Immortals Quartet; this is why the Tortall posts are on hiatus - and eat chicken salad sandwiches and read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, which is a nonfiction book about a real-life great Victorian detective. GREAT VICTORIAN DETECTIVE, people, how can you possibly beat that? I stayed up till nearly midnight reading it because I've lost all sense of proportion.

I suppose I could have brought it to school. It would give me something to do while the students eat cake.

The author keeps referencing all these mid-Victorian sensation novels, and I want to read them all now too. The Woman in White! Lady Audley's Secret! Bleak House! (It's Dickens' 200th birthday this year. I've been meaning to read one of his books. Except it's A MILLION PAGES LONG.) Murder, bigamy, locking inconvenient people up in insane asylums, general gothicness!

Possibly I'll have to entertain myself by writing many, many LJ posts. I have a backlist of things I've been meaning to write about - general Tortall thoughts, more Downton Abbey stuff (Edith! Mary! Convoluted fic ideas about Sybil and Branson!), Fruits Basket, Lisa See's Peony in Love, a bunch of movies (J. Edgar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Charlie Wilson's War, Stage Beauty...)

Does any of this strike anyone's fancy? PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING DOES. I AM DYING OF BOREDOM AND NEED DIRECTION.

Things I Forgot to Post About When I Was Whinging

Item the first: Berries are on sale at the grocery store! Raspberries two for five dollars, blueberries two for five dollars (and in the big pint containers, no less!), strawberries for less than two dollars a carton!

Berries are the most delicious thing in the world. I am going to have a berry feast.

And item the second: I have just realized that for the first time ever, I'm actually going to be in the area of a con - Fourth Street Fantasy in Minneapolis. I...I could attend it!

I've never been to a con before! It is full of discussions of interesting things. Yet it is also full of rooms and rooms of strangers! *flails* *panics*

Also it is expensive. Perhaps I should crunch some numbers before fretting about anything else.