Eventually, he'd come to sit next to her. She wondered if he had been crying. They sat there in silence and darkness with no moon at all for a long time. For hours it seemed to her. And when she got tired, she'd lain back on the sand and he'd put his head on her stomach. She'd been startled by it, but she hadn't pushed him away ( Read more... )

"...I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain grave pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escape from routine." (p. 79 ( Read more... )

I know Meigh gets annoyed when I blow up everyone's Friends Page with articles and other miscellaneous items, so ( Alice Walker artice behind a cut! )

These are all pieces of Alice Walker's book. So forgive me, I won't use quotation marks ( Read more... )

We're all on pins and needles waiting for news of my great-grandmother again. She left the hospital late last week for a rehab facility and was reportedly doing well. Yesterday, though, she was rushed back to the hospital for a suspected clot. My mom called me this morning to tell me that the doctors thought all night they would lose her, but ( Read more... )

This weekend I read Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, most of Vonnegut's Slaughter-House-Five, and today I read A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass.

Also, I read Goodbye, Mr. Chips in its entirety today. It was on a recommended reading list and I also am moderately sure that Melissa told me to read it (feel free to confirm or deny, Espo). It was good. Tear it up.

This requesting library books online thing is something I'm really glad they don't have exclusively in Whatcom County.

Petition to change Norris Hall to Librescu Hall.

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I sat outside for a little bit today, mostly at Starbucks reading the end of The Last American Man and waiting for Susan to take her break. They're training some newbies at the Starbucks and so of course her break was later than expected. Dear trainees, figure out how to call the drinks. You ( Read more... )

I just poured my first mug of coffee for the morning and it seems darker than usual. I thought I put the regular amount in, but I've been going through these little sample packs of different blends that Susan got me, and maybe that matters more than I thought. Today is Caffee Verona, which I'm pretty sure ought to be less dark than Gold Coast. ( Read more... )

You know a vacation to me is, like, laying on the beach for 20 hours of the day and drinking frozen drinks and maybe riding bikes and maybe playing Putt-Putt. So I might forget some things and have to add them later, because this trip we did TONS of stuff. And I'm just not used to trips like that ( Read more... )