Do judge a book by its cover?

I know we're always told that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover (literally and metaphorically) but, as for the literal sense, why do books have covers?
A cover is meant to display what the book is about in some way. It's meant to catch your attention and shout, "Hey you! Buy me! Read me!"
So if we're meant to ignore a cover why have one?
Do you think it's possible to completely ignore a book cover? Or not judge anything? Or do you think it's human nature to make pre-judgements?
Just wondering what you thought. Let me know.

Wish me luck

I'm going to try to read all of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close before the movie comes out. Well before I see the movie which won't be on opening day but will, most likely, be somewhere around there.
So here I go...

Haven't blogged in a while

I know you're dying to hear about my fabulous life. Hah! You've certainly come to the wrong place. But I can tell you about my love affair with old people.
Okay, that sounded really weird; I'm sorry. I just meant to say that I think old people are so adorable. Especially old couples. They just make me wanna squeal and say "nyawwww"!
Since I don't really have anything new going on I guess I'll just tell you some random stuff.
Let's see, well I photographed a wedding a few weeks ago so I'm currently editing the pictures from that.
It was a nice wedding, the church had all these pretty stained glass windows. And the sun was perfectly positioned so that the room was just flooded with multi-colored light.
My parents, my grandma and I went to a Thanksgiving dinner and a play. The dinner was really good (in case you were curious, I had ham because I hate turkey), though kind of unorganized (disorganized?)
I think that's about it really. Christmas is getting so close. We were supposed to be going to get a Christmas tree today but that plan sort of...fell apart.
I watched Super 8 earlier. It was pretty good. I started it once a few days ago and couldn't really get into it. So anyway, I watched it again today and I quite like it. Maybe I was just sleepy the first time. Whatever.
And I'm currently watching Water for Elephants. Not bad so far.
I'm thinking about trying to post on a weekly basis.
I don't know I'll get back to you on that.

Always,
Alyssa

Wordcounting Sucks

Welcome to the first weekend of NaNoWriMo. I'm rather behind on word count by quite a bit so my goal for today is to log 5000 words. I'm a little apprehensive. But I will plug along!

How is everyone else doing on their word count?

As for non-NaNo things...well, I guess I don't really have any on second thought. There's a write-in at a library not far from where I live tomorrow so I'll be going to that (as long as I can get a ride, that is). And I'd like to get another 5000 words while I'm there. That'll put me ahead of schedule a bit.

I've been feeling sick lately. Ughh blergghhh! I don't know why, it happens to me often enough that I don't really question it anymore.

I'm feeling kind of stuck in my writing right now so, as you can see, I'm procrastinating. Which, I really shouldn't be, because this is something I actually don't want to procrastinate on.

Ugh! Okay I'll go write some more now!

Happy November...

Always,

Alyssa