Book fetish, Sports fetish

Whee!  I'm excited.  I was futzing around the internet just now, and it occurred to me to check to see if the English translation of Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch has been released yet.  Well, it hasn't, but I've now placed a pre-order.  And here's the great part: by the time it's released and shipped in late July, I will have TOTALLY forgotten about it, so it'll be like magical book manna from heaven!  Squee!

Tomorrow I shall get scrubs and check out 1.5 mountains of books to read.  Thus let it be written, thus let it be done. On the list at the moment are:
Western Wind (Nims) - a poetry intro text, recommended by my advisor for next year, who perceptively noted that I don't know thing one about the practice and mainstream of poetry, except to write it (which is certainly handy, but it's nice to have some perspective, ne?).
The Milagro Beanfield War (Nichols) - Owen's fault.
The Namesake (Lahiri) - It's one of those everybody's-read-this-why-haven't-you books.
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (ed. Sedaris) - Been meaning to catch this since I saw him read last... what?  May, June?
On Beauty (Smith) - Oh, Zadie Smith.  All the cool kids are reading you.  Plus your novel is an update of Forster's Howard's End, and how crazy is that?
How to Be Good (Hornby) - Uh, it's Nick Hornby.  Hello?
Independent People (Laxness) - This one is the New York Times' fault.  I was just browsing around, and suddenly there was Jonathan Franzen saying that this book set in the back country of Iceland had inspired wanderlust in him.  How can I not?  I'll listen to a lot of Björk while I read it (maybe).

Also, I recently downloaded eps 1-8 of the first season of Sports Night. Why, oh why, oh why was this show cancelled?! (other than Sorkin kinda wanted to do West Wing instead, but let's gloss that). I've watched 6 eps now, and I can safely say that I am deeply invested in the characters. It's a fabulous show.

LJ name meme

As tagged by alstaria.

Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.

Following tradition, I shall be explaining not only the LJ name, but also LJ page titles. 

Yrmencyn: So, WAY back in the day I was using AOL for random purposes.  At this point I honestly don't remember what in the hell those purposes were, nor why I was using AOL on top of the university's dial-up system, since AOL had no local Nacogdoches number.  The username I'd been using for a while was way too long for AOL's system at the time (probably... '96?  '97?), so I had to come up with a new one.  I had downloaded this program called "The Old English Name Generator," and I decided to use that.  So far as I can tell from sketchy investigation at the time and still sketchier memory now, the program had lists of syllables common to OE names, with very rough rules for how they could be combined.  Anyway.  One of the names it spat out was "Yrmencryn", but that was too long for AOL, so I took out the second 'r'.  And thus Yrmencyn was born.

La vache doit me toucher dès jeudi: My LJ title.  This is actually stolen from an early ep of BtVS, wherein Buffy doesn't speak French worth a damn.  I modified it slightly so it makes grammatical, if not semantic, sense.  It basically means "The cow must touch me since Thursday."

Deux ratons-laveurs se luttant dans ma ruelle: The LJ subtitle.  Mandi and I overheard two girls talking while we were waiting in line to get books signed by David Sedaris, and one of them was talking about "two raccoons fighting in my alley."  For some reason it made me laugh, and I put it in French because... that's what I do.  If I had it to do over I'd render it as "Deux chaouis..." (yay Cajun), but I can't seem to find that edit option in the bowels of the LJ system anymore, so thus it remains.

I don't tag anyone, because I am contrary.  But I eagerly await your voluntary writings.

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