2. Becca picking me up from work and bringing me to her house to:
3. Swim in the afternoon sunlight
4. Dress up nicely and see Gray’s new photographs
5. Money returning to me from Emerson, thank you very much.
Bonus: Kasteel muffins showing up in unexpected places…
It’s a good day.
Added bonus: the heat wave broke. Thank God for 85 degree weather.
I’m not sure when Pandora started enforcing a 40 hour listening limit, but they have. And I’ve reached my limit, which seems obvious because I use it the whole time at work.
I’ll only have to pay $0.99 to keep listening for the rest of the month, but I think I am going to take a break now and listen to the music I’ve added to my computer via iTunes (thank you, HSM and Matt Nathanson) and might listen to some radio online before I pay. It’s not that I don’t love Pandora (I do) or that I don’t understand why they have to charge (and in their ways to conserve listening time mention me almost by name–the person who walks away and forgets to turn Pandora off) because I understand that, too. It’s expensive to give things away for free. I get it.
But there is Public Radio out there, radio stations on the web, and lots of Podcasts I could learn something from. I’ll let you know how my new listening endeavors go.
I have 5 more books to add to my list, and you’ll be happy to know only 2 of them are book club books. The rest are all my own. That’s five books since I last wrote, which was in May, so that’s roughly 8 weeks. Not bad. But I have to get cracking.
6. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (book club, I’ve already written about this.)
7. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
This one was OK. I appreciated the cultural of it, but I found it hard to follow the characters, and I wished it had focused on less.
8. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
Excellent read. Highly recommend it. So long, but so good.
9. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A good solid war book. Satirical, entertaining.
10. Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
A thrilling memoir about the Thirteen Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis as told from Robert Kennedy’s involvement.
