Oh, dear. I appear to have descended into only checking in here once a month. Well, at least I'm here now, right? Let's do this thing again.
Current clothes: Blue jeans. White socks. A light blue t-shirt that says "READ," but the letters are all made of of images of cool things you can read about. Because I am a bookwormy dork, and I own it.
Current mood: Pretty good, actually.
Current music: Nothing much. Once again, my listening time is mostly going towards trying to catch up with podcasts, and failing miserably.
Current annoyance: I've got a lot of things I really need to get done soon, and too many of them are annoying to schedule, or involve complicated logistics I have to work out somehow.
Current thing: I did get a couple of major items crossed off my to-do list over the weekend. That seems like a pretty good thing. Otherwise, my thing continues to be retreating from reality as much as possible.
Current desktop picture: Still this.
Current book: Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave. Which doesn't really seem much like my kind of book. I didn't pick it out; it came in a book-related Quarterly subscription box. (Um, possibly one of my things lately also involves signing up for services that send me surprise books.) But I'm always looking to expand my ideas of what "my kind of book" is, so I'm giving it a shot. So far, I'm definitely not having the "Hey, I like this better than I expected!" reaction I'm hoping for, but I'm not very far in yet. So we'll see.
Current song in head: It appears to be alternating back and forth between "Domino Dancing" by the Pet Shop Boys and "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic. Do not ask me why.
Current refreshment: Nothing. But I am a little thirsty. I should hydrate.
Current DVD in player: Still Cowboy Bebop. I keep getting distracted from it.
Current happy thing: We are now firmly in the too-brief Goldilocks period between the dominant seasons of Too Hot and Too Cold. It's great weather to get out and go for a walk.
Current thought: Right, I've got a few hours before work. Time to take a walk, cross a couple of minor things off the to-do list, get some lunch, and then maybe stare mindlessly at some YouTube videos for a while. Yep, that's my day all planned out!
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I don't know about you, but when I see a review that calls a book "impossible to put down", I consider it a dare. As for the "best book of the summer", do you read any of those magazines?
ReplyDeleteNeither Too Hot nor Too Cold, but Too Windy. One might then think that autumn is the best, but that's Balloon Fiesta season, which means Too Many Tourists.
Well, I'd always like to agree with the reviewer on that score, I guess. But I'm finding this one very put-downable. And, yeah, the magazines that liked it aren't exactly my sort of reading, either. Ah, well. At least I gave it a shot. (And it's not awful, really. Just... not doin' much for me.)
DeleteAnd I do think fall is the best, but we don't have the tourist problem much down here.