Book List

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I want to keep a list of all the books I have read this year, in case I ever get time to review them (unlikely).

Finished
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Leisure Seeker - Michael Zadoorian
Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Love In Infant Monkeys - Lydia Millet
Demon's Covenant - Sarah Rees Brennan
Leviathan - Scott Westerfield
Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi

In progress
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Locksley - Nicholas Chase
At The Water's Edge - Carl Zimmer

Next Up
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Harold and the Pursuit of Happiness -
The Girl Who Played Go

On Hiatus
Cosmos - Carl Sagan

I don't know how it can possibly be that I've only finished five books so far this year. Possibly all the fanfic . . . But Daniel Deronda should count as six!

Comments

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Well, I know some people do read a lot faster than me.

How ARE you?

[seraphcelene]

Hello my darling! I am doing very well. JOY! OMG!! There have been crazy things afoot. I lost my job in April and then I applied to get a teaching credential. Then I got accepted and now I'm waiting for financial aid. Then I got a job at a crazy ass non-profit where I have lunch with BANKERS! In downtown L.A. Wearing suits. Like they're demons or something. It's a crazy alternate reality that I live in right now. So, in August I might be in school. Learning to teach the young'uns. Then, assuming that I get a job, I will be in school FOREVER! YAY!!!!! And on holiday every summer when I will travel the world drinking beer and getting laid. Just kidding. Well, maybe not completely.

HOW ARE YOU?! What is going on in the land of you-ness. Sorry to hijack your DW. It's so weird to not say LJ. Well, also, I am slightly tipsy on chardonnay.

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WHAT?!? I'm so sorry you lost your job. Teaching sounds totally awesome! What is the crazy ass non-profit? I work at a crazy ass non-profit! It is eating my life right now. I hope you like it! But I know what you mean, about the bankers. I don't have lunch with them, but I work near downtown so I'm all like, "lol wut. Why are you wearing that?" but bankers in Seattle ride the bus sometimes and those ones are cool. So what grade are you looking at teaching? What made you decide to be a teacher? This is so crazy and cool! You know . . . I don't live that far from you. I kind of want to come down and see you again. I'm so bad at staying in touch.

You're not hijacking! I haven't been around in forever. Perhaps obviously. And I miss everyone, but I just don't know how to keep all the buoys of my life afloat. As soon as I cling to one the other ones go down. Buoys aren't supposed to do that. L, you are one of my buoys because whenever I talk to you I just get happy.

Anyway I am good. Like I said, work is eating my life. I finally got full time, and now I'm trying to work my butt off to show them I can move up again. But summer at the science museum is CRAZY busy and I have no time to do anything. I'm also directing a play. A Star Trek play. It's so good to hear from you.

I was having a big long conversation with someone about k-dramas and j-dramas the other day and I asked them about Boys Over Flowers and they all went GAAAAAHHHHH it's so cracktastic! I have yet to try one.

Paradiiiiissseeeee!! BOF IS cracktastic like the best crack ever!

[seraphcelene]

I am SO NOT sorry that I lost my job. I HATED my job with a mad passion and now I am free of it. I wish I could have just quit but I will admit that I was stuck in a way that was not good. I was like the girl in Are You Now or Have You Ever Been or whatever that one Angel episode was called where she was trapped in the Hyperion forever and ever because she was too afraid to leave. Yup, that was me. She was I. But I got out! I did! And I didn't have to die to do it. So, there, Powers That Be. On the other hand there was some panic and OMG going around for a while, but I found a new job within two weeks. Granted its only part time, but I did get into my credential program and I really need the one day off per week to get things accomplished because I work ALL DAMN DAY!

The non-profit helps small LMI (low to moderate income) businesses to become credit worthy. She also does some things with helping people to keep their houses and right now we're working on a program that involves training bankers to understand the challenges faced by small businesses and to be more proactive about helping them as opposed to rejecting their applications for loans and tossing them out on their ears. There is this huge disconnect between bankers, small businesses and other non-profits. Largely because the banks look at the applications as transactions and not as potential clients with correctable problems. It's interesting but stressful as all hell. I will be here until August. I think that I would like a reception job while I go to school. Something that does not require a lot of effort on my part. My nerves are shot already and it's only been like a little over a month.

I've always wanted to teach, only it used to be at college level, well now it will be high school and maybe a community college class in the evenings. I like school. I have always liked school. I'm good at school. So I think that the fit will be good. Fingers crossed, anyway.

I've been thinking about you alot because I was considering trips and I would love to come to Seattle. Only I have to be careful with the fund since I am not working full time. It is kind annoying, but I keep thinking that in a year and a half, if I really work hard, I will get this whole thing done and w00t! I can go on vacations for an entire month if I want to. Of course, I won't have much of a life while school is in session, but that's okay. It's not like I love the winter anyway.

If you decide to come down, let me know! I'd love to see you again! I hope that your job continues to be awesome. And that you love it! Do things that you love! I am learning to embrace this concept more every day. And when I don't love it, I'm realizing that I need to fight like hell to figure out what it is I do love and to get busy doing it. It's been a learning experience all the way around.