fine whine

So there's this meme floating around the so-called blogosphere whereby everybody's opening up books and posting the fifth sentence of the twenty-third page. Or, as they say:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Lately I haven't been doing my bit for the community so I'll play along. Here's what I found in Fitzgerald did it by Meg Wolitzer:

You might think that such a story will just "write itself".

I happened across the idea whilst idly considering changing my publishing software (after just a year of happily using MT, I'm starting to find the need for something a little different, and apparently a bunch of other people (some with more technical reasons) are doing the same. I had a good run with MT, but it's starting to take up too much space. I'll try not to be too geeky and detail every step and motivation, but don't be surprised if as my whole moving from the apartment to a house thing becomes somehow a metaphor for the moving from MT to WordPress thing (or vice versa).

As for the book, I stumbled across it wedged between some screenwriting books at Half Price Books, wrote it down and checked it out from the library. Next week when I read it I might have more to say.

Yes, I am aware of the significance of 23. And I finally watched my Scandinavian DVD of Scorsese's Raging bull tonight too, but I don't have much to say about either. For now. Goodnight.