This month's book club pick is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It isn't the type of book I usually read, and yet, I finished it off in one go today. I really am grateful to the book club... although there have been times when I've read things I ended up not liking, it's forced me to try quite a few new things ( Read more... )

It's a gorgeous day! Blue skies, not too humid, bit of a breeze. I don't know what happened... walking to the car earlier, I started looking around, and really seeing things. It's amazing! I'm sure I sound nutty, mostly because it's difficult to translate the intensity of appreciation. There's not one thing that I can point at as being beautiful ( Read more... )

Becoming Jane -- I like Anne Hathaway; she's a good actress, and she doesn't do (or get caught doing) things that would put her in the news. So, I was excited to see how she would play Jane Austen. Hathaway was probably the best thing in the movie; there were many points during it that I just wanted to bang my head and whine are we done yet? ( Read more... )

Took Megan and Maddie to the Hirshorn museum and sculpture gardens today... I think they liked it more than they thought they would... the exhibits are oddball and interesting enough in an odd way to capture their attention. At the Hirshorn we saw various works by Rodin, who the girls weren't too impressed by (mainly because of the "butts"), and ( Read more... )

Just got back from a weekend trip to Philadelphia to see the Tutankhamun; a Pharaoh in the 18th dynasty who ruled from the age of 9 to 19. Elizabeth and Ally had me reserve the weekend a couple months ago at the cruise, but didn't tell me what it was. When Sal and I showed up at their place yesterday, I still didn't have a clue where we were ( Read more... )

Interview went well! Doesn't mean they'll hire me, but I feel good that I did a good job, and it's up to them to find out if I fit their needs. They'd emailed me a list of questions that I needed to answer in my verbal in under 30 min... I did in 29 :). They were interviewing for two jobs, both as mental health therapists to the seriously ( Read more... )

There's a very rude comment about what procrastination is like which seems highly appropo since the only person getting screwed by it is me. I have an interview tomorrow where I have to present a written and verbal presentation. Haven't really started the verbal... just a lot of ideas. The written is mostly down though, well the rough draft, ( Read more... )

Dana and I are at her apt in Brooklyn prepping for the Yellowstone trip!

SO easily amused!

I like when you make friends with people who work at bookstores; they recommend books that you wouldn't have picked up otherwise. So... started to read Happiness by Daniel McMahon, a book which asks what exactly is this thing we call Happiness? He starts off (and this is where I'm at) with what BCE scholars (mostly Western philosophers) thought ( Read more... )