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. . . I love my mother dearly, but she is insane.

My father's 50th birthday is on Friday; I just got a spur-of-the-moment e-mail from her asking if I wanted to catch a (six-hour cross-country) flight home on Friday (as in, three days from now) in order to make it back there for a night before flying back home on Saturday (in order to be back at school for Dead Week).



Apparently the insanity is genetic, because if I hadn't already promised to do tech for a show this weekend, I would have been pretty tempted to say yes.

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One of the things that makes me very sad is the fact that no one else I know has read Kage Baker's Company series. It's sort of a constant sadness, really, but I am feeling it especially now, because there is a new one out that I am currently reading and OMG I need to flail at someone. Because OW OW OW. (In the good way.)

Therefore, I present the top five reasons that I am confident pretty much everyone on my flist would enjoy these books.

( Cut for length and mild, mild spoilers )

In conclusion: seriously, you'll like these books! They are like Good Omens with cyborgs, or BSG with more black humor (and you tend to be on the Cylons' side), or Revolutionary Girl Utena with history.

- okay, maybe I'm making that last one up a little, although I could write a whole other essay on an Anthy-Mendoza comparison. But those of you who have read this far have probably already made a pretty heroic effort to get here, so I will spare you.