Good Omens

while - to me - that sounds like a great title for a post, it's really a stolen title from the book i just read by that title (by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett) that Rilina lent to me about 23,321 days ago. though i must consider myself a novice to reading fiction, i'll say that it was a really enjoyable read. very funny. it was like reading monty python, but with a little more sense blended in. it's an end of the world novel in which nothing goes as plans by either the forces above or those below. i must say my favorite paragraph is the book is as follows:

Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

though, if i particularly believed in omens, i'd say that we have a few good omens that have come our way lately. i just found out that the apartment that Jak and i have been living in got rented for september 1st, which means, since we're breaking our lease, that we don't have to pay a penalty or keep paying rent. now, hopefully, i'll be able to find us a new place in Seattle during the week i'm spending there to find one.