Engulfed in a Sequel

So I didn't get a chance to watch House of Anubis tonight because we had pep band. Thankfully it was for the boys' basketball team - no offense towards the girls, but the boys are so much more interesting to watch. They're faster, they manage to foul each other in more interesting ways, etc.
Tonight the Central Hip-Hop Team performed during half-time as well, and I have to say, they were really good. There was one guy who was riveting - I couldn't stop watching him. And another girl had the best facial expressions ever while she was dancing.

Anyway though. Even though I missed Anubis, there has been progress on other fronts: namely, reading. I finished David Sedaris's When You Are Engulfed in Flames, which was actually fairly funny, though I must admit it was a little...disjointed? The stories just didn't seem to have any theme connecting them together, so that was a bit odd.
Anyway, here's a clip of one of his stories. I love that he has no problem talking about things that other people might find awkward or uncomfortable. (Also, as a side note, I had no idea this was what he sounded like, and it's very different from how I thought he would sound).

Meanwhile, I also finished the fifth Thursday Next book, First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde.
[Quick summary for those who haven't read the Thursday Next books: they center around a woman named Thursday Next who work(ed) for a branch of government called Special Operations, which handles everything from time travel to book policing. The first book is about her trying to stop an evil man named Acheron Hades from killing Jane Eyre, or any of the other characters within that book. Susequent books deal with her escapades within books - there is a police force called Jurisfiction within books that do all sorts of things. Look, it's confusing, and I'm bad at summarizing, just go read the books.]

Fforde really knows how to pack a lot of plot into a small space. There must've been five or six different issues, all going on at once. What's amazing is less that he manages to fit all of it in there, but that he manages to make it not overwhelmingly confusing. My favorite bit about the Next books is that there are lots of moments where it takes a little bit more brainpower to figure out what's going on - Jasper Fforde doesn't dumb his books down in any way. I also love that when he's explaining certain things, especially in the BookWorld (I'll explain in a second), Thursday will freely admit that she has no idea what's going on/how things work - which is nice, because I never have any idea either.