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The Big Book Post, 2014
This year I read 14 books, coming in two shy of my goal of 16. The books are:- January: Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- January: Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
- January: Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
- February: Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
- March: The Answer to the Riddle is Me by David Stuart MacLean
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Freshly laundered
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Mid-year book roundup
I do a big book post at the end of each year quantifying all the reading I did. Since it's been a good reading year so far (I am half-way to my goal, and they've all been good books), I thought I'd do a mid-year book post. Not quite as detailed, but hopefully enough to satiate me until December ( Read more... ) -
A delightful meal of questionable leftovers
Ingredients:- The remains of a bag of Purdue Shortcuts a few days past the sell-by date but smell and taste fine.
- A quarter of a red onion from got-knows-when but which still looks and acts like an onion and is not oozing anything.
- Four cloves of garlic (two of which were peeled a week and a half ago and then refrigerated because I wanted to ( Read more... )
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State capitals I've been to
State/Provincial capitals I've actually spent time in ( Read more... ) -
The Big Book Post, 2013
This year I finished, in order:- January: Rules of Civility By Amor Towles
- February - April: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris
- February - April: On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield
- May: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- May: The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
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A Rebuilding Year
Where 2012 was a demolition year, 2013 was a rebuilding year. In 2012 I leveled the landscape, preparing the ground for new life. I languished without a job for a few months, finally finding a temp job at Yeshiva University that would lead to a permanent position in 2013. I made the decision to move out on my own in 2012, and spent most of 2013 ( Read more... ) -
Let's jinx this further, shall we?
My last post indicated that I would be staying with Christian for a few days and then moving back to Bayside, and then moving to Brooklyn on 12/13. Some of those words are true, but the full reality is that I have now spent over a week at the apartment of the very kind and tolerant Christian. I have just received intelligence that a toilet is ( Read more... ) -
My year of living wherever
In 2013, I've "lived" in more places than in any previous year of my life ( Read more... ) -
Phase Two
Tomorrow begins Phase Two of the Berman Apartment Swap. Phase One entailed moving my aunt into a new apartment and moving me into the Bayside apartment previously occupied by her, and yet to be occupied by my sister and her family. For the past seven months I've been anxiously awaiting Phase Two, which we approached as a car towards the Rocky ( Read more... )