books! also work. also i still want a cookie.
What I just finished reading:
scholars and soldiers which i first read about a million years ago, and which i was surprised to remember a lot of. i'd forgotten that not all the stories have happy (or at least happy-ish) endings, but i really like that. not everyone gets their hea. and some of the objectively "happy" endings are still pretty ambiguous in their happy.
What I am reading now:
passage, by connie willis, and did i mention it's a MASSIVE book? seriously. it is so thick. and the pages are thin. it's going to take me forever. so far so good, tho. every chapter heading is someone's last words, or, like, an eyewitness discussing a tragedy (like a reporter talking about the hindenberg explosion), and there's a girl with a heart condition whose current favorite tragedies are the aforementioned hindenberg and the great molasses flood. (i love the story about the great molasses flood. it's so fucking weird. people drowned! in molasses! in the winter! what the hell, boston.) passage is about near-death experiences, so all the death quotes are fitting.
What I'm going to read next:
flying without a net, because i should probably be reading it now.
at work we send out master tax guides at the end of every year - they weigh about two pounds (and they're softcover!) and we send them to clients - last week they were all delivered and i spent way too much time today figuring out how to mail them. we have 138, and i haven't counted how many we're sending this year but it's most of that. last year it took me all day to print cover letters, print ups labels, and pack all the tax guides in padded envelopes. oh, the joys of being an admin. :|
today i also helped set up the lunch for a lunch & learn, which is exactly what it sounds like - kind of an educational/training session with food. :D there were three of them at the same time, which meant there were a lot of leftover sandwiches by the time i was ready for lunch. so i had a lovely portobello and monterey jack on rye instead of the turkey on wheat i brought. (i had the turkey on wheat for dinner. and now i might have some chicken. it's shark week so i'm a bottomless pit.) (last night at about nine i wanted cookies, except my only option was to bake them myself, and there was tv i wanted to watch instead.)
who else is watching this is us? i'm low-level annoyed that kate is still the fat girl (tm), but the annoyance is slightly tempered by the fact that she also has a happy sex life with a guy who genuinely thinks she's sexy and awesome. i really like the show, tho. i like that it's about people who clearly love each other and yet they make mistakes and screw each other up because they're human and being a parent/child/spouse/sibling is hard. i also like randall's daughter's response to her grandfather basically bringing his (ex?)boyfriend to christmas - "grandpa's gay. or at least bi." like it's no big thing. and it isn't! it was great. personally i vote for him being bi. and his ex(?) is denis o'hare! i might have squeed. just a little. i also liked the inclusion of a jewish girl in the obligatory christmas episode - and the inclusion of the actual hanukah story, which people don't generally mention - it kind of mitigated all the obligatory christmas-ness. it offered a very coincidental way to solve the problem of olivia vanishing and causing the play to be canceled, tho. which, by the way, what? is it too late to cast another actress? isn't that kind of thing terrible for a person's career? i like the playwright, tho. i can't remember her name.
the tiny show is breaking my heart and i blame dear-tiger. i mean, look at this boy's face.
scholars and soldiers which i first read about a million years ago, and which i was surprised to remember a lot of. i'd forgotten that not all the stories have happy (or at least happy-ish) endings, but i really like that. not everyone gets their hea. and some of the objectively "happy" endings are still pretty ambiguous in their happy.
What I am reading now:
passage, by connie willis, and did i mention it's a MASSIVE book? seriously. it is so thick. and the pages are thin. it's going to take me forever. so far so good, tho. every chapter heading is someone's last words, or, like, an eyewitness discussing a tragedy (like a reporter talking about the hindenberg explosion), and there's a girl with a heart condition whose current favorite tragedies are the aforementioned hindenberg and the great molasses flood. (i love the story about the great molasses flood. it's so fucking weird. people drowned! in molasses! in the winter! what the hell, boston.) passage is about near-death experiences, so all the death quotes are fitting.
What I'm going to read next:
flying without a net, because i should probably be reading it now.
at work we send out master tax guides at the end of every year - they weigh about two pounds (and they're softcover!) and we send them to clients - last week they were all delivered and i spent way too much time today figuring out how to mail them. we have 138, and i haven't counted how many we're sending this year but it's most of that. last year it took me all day to print cover letters, print ups labels, and pack all the tax guides in padded envelopes. oh, the joys of being an admin. :|
today i also helped set up the lunch for a lunch & learn, which is exactly what it sounds like - kind of an educational/training session with food. :D there were three of them at the same time, which meant there were a lot of leftover sandwiches by the time i was ready for lunch. so i had a lovely portobello and monterey jack on rye instead of the turkey on wheat i brought. (i had the turkey on wheat for dinner. and now i might have some chicken. it's shark week so i'm a bottomless pit.) (last night at about nine i wanted cookies, except my only option was to bake them myself, and there was tv i wanted to watch instead.)
who else is watching this is us? i'm low-level annoyed that kate is still the fat girl (tm), but the annoyance is slightly tempered by the fact that she also has a happy sex life with a guy who genuinely thinks she's sexy and awesome. i really like the show, tho. i like that it's about people who clearly love each other and yet they make mistakes and screw each other up because they're human and being a parent/child/spouse/sibling is hard. i also like randall's daughter's response to her grandfather basically bringing his (ex?)boyfriend to christmas - "grandpa's gay. or at least bi." like it's no big thing. and it isn't! it was great. personally i vote for him being bi. and his ex(?) is denis o'hare! i might have squeed. just a little. i also liked the inclusion of a jewish girl in the obligatory christmas episode - and the inclusion of the actual hanukah story, which people don't generally mention - it kind of mitigated all the obligatory christmas-ness. it offered a very coincidental way to solve the problem of olivia vanishing and causing the play to be canceled, tho. which, by the way, what? is it too late to cast another actress? isn't that kind of thing terrible for a person's career? i like the playwright, tho. i can't remember her name.
the tiny show is breaking my heart and i blame dear-tiger. i mean, look at this boy's face.
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