I was at CVS this morning, and the two girls in front of me in line, who couldn’t have been more than eleven or twelve, were buying mud masks. What is it about our society that tells little girls to buy mud masks? The same thing that tells women to get Botox injections and that guy on TV to get butt implants. It’s disgusting.

I’m afraid that by the time I’m middle aged, plastic surgery and the like will be standard for aging women. Oops, there’s a wrinkle, time to sign up for your first face lift!

Yes, it’s the media, blah blah unrealistic body types blah blah blah. I just wish people were smarter than that. Why can’t we look at all the “beautiful” people and dismiss them as slightly sick anomalies? Why are 75% of teenage girls unwilling to reveal their weight? Why can’t people be intelligent enough to look around and see that they don’t have to be blonde with a BMI of 18 to be happy and loved?

Yes, my inability to multitask counts for blogs as well as things in real life. I’ll give it another try. Comments will keep me writing, as I write more when I think people are reading. Like the new layout?

Readers of my livejournal are already sick of hearing my go on and on about this, so I’ll post it here.

In January, I read and loved Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. It had math and sex and hilarity and hacking and cryptology and lots of adorable men. I loved it so much, in fact, that I went right out and bought Snow Crash, because people said it was one of his best. I finished it last week. I have to say that I was disappointed. Cryptonomicon was huge and wonderful and felt like a real book, while Snow Crash almost felt like fanfiction. It was just a story. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t love it. I wish I had gotten it out of the library instead of buying it. This make me less than eager to read The Diamond Age and Zodiac, but I’m still looking forward to Quicksilver and its sequels. They seem to be written along the lines of Cryptonomicon- set in the same universe, but around the Baroque period. The characters are ancestors of the characters in Cryptonomicon, along with the ever-enigmatic Enoch Root. It appears that Cryptonomicon will have sequels as well, which is exciting indeed. The ending was strange, and didn’t explain enough. However, two of the three main characters had their stories wrapped up and tied with neat little bows, so I don’t know what will happen with that.