{"id":10612,"date":"2002-07-23T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2002-07-23T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2002-07-23T13:22:06","modified_gmt":"2002-07-23T17:22:06","slug":"10612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2002\/07\/10612\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well my hatred of clothing shopping finally won out and I bought a bathing suit online. I wasn&#8217;t going to, since bathing suits are sorta the kind of thing you want to try on before you buy them&#8230; but I really don&#8217;t feel like going to stores in the end of July only to discover all they have left for bathing suits on the rack are size 4 bikinis, &#8217;cause who buys a bathing suit in the middle of the summer? Oh well, I checked with the return policy of this one place and it seemed pretty good so I spent like $50, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever spent that much on a bathing suit, but I didn&#8217;t want to get one from a crappy no name online company, that&#8217;s scary. Anyway, the reason for getting one was is that we have a pool here at the apartments, and it&#8217;s been hot, so I want to go swimming. I paid extra for quick delivery, so it should be here by friday or so&#8230; what can I say, I&#8217;m an impatient young american. The sucky thing is that I tried twice last night and the website was all &#8220;our site not working, come back later&#8221; and now when I look at my online bank statement it shows charging me 3 times&#8230; &#8220;Debit pending&#8221; of course, so hopefully when the bank realizes it was a mistake those will go away&#8230; I called the company this morning anyway to make sure they only charged me once. Gah, I wouldn&#8217;t be to happy losing $100 by some browser mistake, I&#8217;d lose all faith in internet shopping.<br \/><BR>Speaking of which, I just finished the Third Wheel of Time book last night and wrote up a review:<br \/><BR><u>The Dragon Reborn<\/u>, by Robert Jordan, 701 pages<\/p>\n<p><BR>In this third book of the Wheel of Time series there was a lot of moving<BR>of characters, it was very well written so that you are equally<BR>interested in all the characters movements. I find that in some books<BR>one set of characters is more interested than another and I always pull<BR>myself through reading the uninteresting stuff to get the the<BR>interesting stuff. Not so with Jordan, he really makes an effort to make<BR>the whole story flow very well. Unfortunately, with this book I find<BR>what flaw people have with Jordan, this book was about 700 pages long<BR>and very little happened. Or hardly anything very important anyway, he<BR>manages to take up a lot of space to write a small progression of the<BR>story. I personally don&#8217;t really have a problem with this, not now<BR>anyway, but I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll learn to dislike it as the series<BR>progresses. Some people have said that he created this series so that he<BR>could write it for his entire life, he is very good at describing<BR>scenes, and developing characters, but it takes so long. Anyway, the <BR>plot is pretty much all the characters growing in their chosen tasks, <BR>and all end up chasing different people all to this city of Tear. The <BR>climax occurs toward the end when The Dragon Reborn takes a vital step <BR>toward world proclaimation of his status. So in all? I<BR>liked it, breezed through it in a little over a week, I&#8217;ll probably be<BR>heading out for book number four in a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p><BR>So I just looked up on my bookshelf and saw a book I hadnt read yet <u>Redwall<\/u> I&#8217;ve actually read another in the series but not this one, they are fantasy stories whose characters are animals *shrugs* It&#8217;ll be a nice break between WoT books. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get to the bookstore before I&#8217;m done with this so I wont have to do something silly like reading the Celestine Prophecy next or something. Then again I am sure I could look through my piles of books and find a few things I havent read&#8230; The problem is that I have a terrible habit of acquiring like, the second book in a 5 book series or something, I cant read that &#8217;cause I havent read the first, and even if I decide to go on without reading previous I sorta get committed to a series *shrugs* I am gonna go wander off and see if I can get some work done, since it&#8217;s after 1 and all I have done today is unsucessfully tried to change my secondary domain name, bleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my hatred of clothing shopping finally won out and I bought a bathing suit online. I wasn&#8217;t going to, since bathing suits are sorta the kind of thing you want to try on before you buy them&#8230; but I really don&#8217;t feel like going to stores in the end of July only to discover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}