i can haz books?

I might as well keep track of all the new things I'm reading here. I got three new books from the library, all of which I have not read before. American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson, whence yesterday's Quote of the Day comes, and which I have been dying to read for FOREVER, since I adore Craig Ferguson. And it does not disappoint! I have about forty pages left. I highly recommend it.

I also got Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer and Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent. I have been reading the Artemis Fowl books for YEARS and still have the book report I wrote on the first one in seventh grade. Well...I still have all my science worksheets from 8th grade and stuff as well, but I am planning on throwing those out eventually. The A.F. book report amuses/pleases me. Norah Vincent's book is about how she dressed and lived for a man as a year. I think I got the recommendation for it from the xkcd blog? I honestly don't remember because I just wrote it down on my listography as a book I wanted to check out some time ago and didn't get it until now. I'm very excited to read it, although I'm trying to keep it out of the sights of my family. As the author is a cross-dressing lesbian, I really don't think they'd approve.

Work is going well. Jeff, the guy I preclose with a lot, says I'm getting faster. Which is grand. I don't like being the slow, incompetent new person x.x Brittany is still occasionally intensely annoying to me due to her tendency to fuck around instead of doing actual work, but she's really funny/outrageous as a person, so I guess it's nice she's not boring. Bryan is very nice, but it ended up being just us two working the Sunday afternoon shift for a while yesterday and we kind of ran out of things to say to each other, I think.

Donald has taken to calling me 'baby' lately. I approve. We've also been talking about moving in together. This might be a bit soon since we've only been going out for two months...and a big appeal is me getting away from my crazy family. I also love him to death and pretty much live at his house every weekend as it is. He and Calob are moving out into an apartment in June or July. Originally Calob's girlfriend Kat was meant to be coming with them, but apparently reconsidered for family/school reasons.

If I had my way I would really rather move into my own apartment first, not because I don't think things with Donald are stable but because, I don't know, it seems a bit odd to have my first living-not-with-family experience be with a boyfriend. However I am not making anything like enough money to live on my own. Even if I had a roomie it might not be enough. I got a letter the other day, too, informing me that as of June 25th or so I'm expected to start making payments on my student loans. With that, cell phone, and car insurance/gas payments....well, it's not like I have terribly much left in the way of rent. Food, yes. Rent, no. This is a problem.

Well, for me anyway. Donald says if I moved in with him and Calob he wouldn't even expect me to contribute towards rent at all because of how little I'm making right now. ...Out of everyone I've dated, I can honestly say he's probably the only one who I can even entertain getting into that sort of situation with without him using me not paying rent to pressure me into stuff.

My mom has not brought up the appropriateness of me staying over at Donald's house again, much to my relief. Apparently she is just getting used to me...not coming home for parts of the weekend. What my siblings think, I don't know and honestly don't care to know. My parents would not be at all happy if I moved in with Donald, which is why I want to buy the car from them before even thinking about it. I also need to pay off a couple small debts I have and maybe move to a more permanent cell phone company (I'm still rocking a TracFone at the moment), plus start payments on my student loans, before I want to think about moving out. I have informed Donald that if I do decide to move in with him, he WILL be present when I have to inform my parents of what is happening. I'm not sure what would be worse, me getting knocked up, or wanting to move in with him WITHOUT being knocked up/married as a prelude. Sigh.