Bookkeeping and Books
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Well, I can put it off no longer (well, I could, but that would be a bad idea)… I have all my W-2 forms, my 1099-MISC forms, charitable donation receipts, receipts for “business” purchases when I technically self-employed… And as we speak, I’m downloading the tax prep software appropriate to my needs (over $100 because of the fraking self-employed nonsense, as opposed to $30-$40 otherwise). There’s no way I’ll get it finished tonight, but I’ve got to find out how much damage I’ve done this year before I can make any long-term plans for the year (vacation, new apartment, etc.). It’s tax time.
I finished Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint. He;s one of the few authors who write in a series, but whose work I don’t feel compelled to read in chronological order. Maybe it’s because all the Newford stories are self-contained and running across characters at an earlier point in their timelines isn’t jarring because you only get a moment of them. This novel’s story, in particular, had more twists to the plot than I’ve come to expect from CdL–although I was disappointed in at least one dropped plot point (where Rushkin confiscates a portrait Isabelle made of him with a cryptic remark about soul stealing, then paints Isabelle… with the whole novel based on the idea that these characters physically and magically change the world through painting, it seems an odd detail to have let go without further explanation).
I started today on What is the What by Dave Eggers. I already like it a lot.
