Sleepy Blood

Ugh, I am so tired.  I have a massive headache and really need sleep.  My co-worker is going to be going on vacation tomorrow.  I am so worried about my hours going way over 80 hours and my boss not wanting me to.  I guess he'll have to decide between work getting done and paying me over time. 

I took a long lunch today and I finished The Van Allen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz.  I've like the novels and I'm kind of anxious to see what will happen next.  It isn't the greatest book or the best written, but I really like the concept of it in a time when the world has gone vampire crazy. The vampires in the Blue Bloods novels are actually cursed/fallen angels.  The vampire and angel lore is very interesting when blended by Melissa de la Cruz.  I'm so torn between the love triangle of Ollie, Jack, and Schulyer.  Not to mention, poor Kingsley.  I don't think we've seen the last of him, nor do I want this to be the last of him. 

I also finished Emma this weekend....you all know how I feel about Emma and Knightly! 

I watched War Horse the other day...hello puffy eyed mess.  I love how my mother cries out from the other room: "Is that the horse you are crying for? Go figure, you wouldn't cry that hard for a man!"  Oh my mother and the things she sometimes says.   I have not watched Black Beauty since I was a child because horse movies just seem to tear me apart.  This was no exception.  The story follows Joey (known my multiple names) from the day of his birth, through training, plowing fields, being sold to the army, working for both the Allies and the Axis, raising the spirits of a little French girl, and finally making it through the war.  It was a fantastic story and it made me bawl. 

Emma

After watching the movie...several times...I decided to pull out my copy of Emma and actually read it. I'm about 100 pages or so into it and have another 100+ pages to go, but I am loving every second of it. Jane Austen's stories are so very interesting; however, I tend to fall asleep on them. If the book isn't smacking me in the face I'm typically slouched over onto the book! It has nothing to do with my lack of interest, but more my tired eyes cannot keep up with the verbose Victorian style.

I have also been keeping up in my Intellectual Devotional and I am now nearly caught up. I did not know that cows could even dream prior to reading this book, let alone did I realize that they couldn't dream while standing. I already knew that cows could sleep while standing, but apparently they cannot dream and sleep while standing - to enter REM sleep (the state in which you dream) they have to lie down.

I am also working on a book about death rituals, customs, and beliefs. I haven't gotten to far into this book, but from what I have read so far, I find it very intriguing. On the Pacific Islands, some tribes have life sized dolls they make and leave outside the tomb to represent the dead. I had no idea there were so many different perceptions on when the point of death actually occurs.