Not too long ago I started reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Earth. Previously I read The Robots of Dawn and while I enjoyed the atmosphere it produced, I didn’t particularly like the book. This Foundation Series on the other hand, is something else entirely. I’m almost done with the second in the series (Foundation and Earth) and then I’ll move on to the third and final book of the original three. Jules dug up this one at Half Price Books. The cover is awesome.
Today’s Stream of Consciousness: School is going to start in 2 days. Back to classes. Yay. I’m getting a bit stressed out thinking about grant applications, and qualifying exams. Argghhhh… time to start studying this weekend. We just had our first departmental graduate student meeting for the year. Apparently I am now a graduate assembly delegate alternate. If it’s interesting, I may go to all the meetings, regardless of whether or not the other PMB delegate is there. I’ve never been a part of student government. Last year they successfully lobbied for a vision plan to be part of SHIP, which is huge. Previously, we only had dental and health. I’m curious as to what they’ll focus on this year.
Today’s movie: Be Kind Rewind (mike watched, I only half paid attention. But it seems like an entertaining movie. I am just easily distracted today)
Today’s bedtime reading: The God of Small Things (I was vacillating between this book and The God Delusion in the bookstore. Not that they are in any way related in either subject matter or.. anything else, for the matter. Well, other than ‘God’ in the title)
So I’m a little late to the bandwagon. I’d more or less kept up with the harry potter series during these past few years. But I only recently (as in two weeks ago) got around to reading the final and seventh book. It had been so long that I actually went back to the volume 1-6 again to refresh my memory. I got all of them in hardback for 7$ apiece courtesy of half price books. Yay. I made pretty quick work of them during my bus commutes to and from school these past two weeks. Which kind of tells you how much time I spend waiting around for buses. Okay, okay, I read them at home too. But I think the majority of my reading was done en route. I enjoyed the ending, and thought it was pretty fitting. And whiIe I can think of a number of books that I value more, they are still entertaining, fun reads. Off the top of my head, three books that I can think of that I have read most often (as in +4 times) is ‘Ender’s Game’, by Orson Scott Card; ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’, by David Sedaris; and ‘Feeding A Yen’, by Calvin Trillin. Two of them are composed of short personal essays (absolutely hilarious, I tell you), and one is in the good old science fiction category. Yay books.
I have internet at last! Woohooo.. Well, I suppose that I have had internet since Thursday night, but anyhoo, 2 weeks of no internet at home really wears on a person when they are used to getting on every day.
Today, Mike and I stopped by the bookstore and picked up a few things- I picked some Nana manga (which I don’t like nearly as much as Paradise Kiss by the same mangaka, this one being more typically shojo than the other) and Mike picked up I am Legend by Richard Matheson and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, both of which were highly recommended by one of his friends. So we’ve been bumming around my place, reading books, napping, and eating cookies. I already made it through half of I am Legend before Mike wrenched it from me, claiming his turn to read. Apparently he decided I was to read The Road first before I could read I Am Legend. Pffftt… who made him dictator?? Hahah. But really, he was napping and wouldn’t have been reading it anyways, right? Man, and I just got to the exciting part T_T
Picture of the day- Some zucchini pickles I made! Wonder how long it will take to eat them all:
