Meredith’s newly acquired copy of Bridget Jones’s Diary has been sitting on the coffee table for a couple weeks. I usually scoff at books by female authors that have the words “confession” or “diary” in the title, so, at first, I scoffed. But then I found out Cam’s mom gave the book to Meredith for Christmas and said she though every female should own a copy. I respect Cam’s mom (and she’s a librarian… she knows her books!), so I got curious.
I flipped through it, read the stats portions at the beginnings of each of the entries, and decided it was a sad book because she never loses weight… apparently I’m not that open-minded.
But, in honor of the book, still on the coffee table in the living room… or maybe, in honor of Cam’s mom, here’s a quick update on my life, in list format:
Reading: What Is the What (Eggers); The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand); South of the Border, West of the Sun (Murakami); An Anthropologist on Mars (Sacks); Blow-Up and Other Stories (Cortazar).
Just finished reading: Apex Hides the Hurt (Whitehead); And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Kerouac & Burroughs); Muses, Madmen, and Phrophets (Smith); New Kings of Non-Fiction (editor: Glass).
Listening: Ella Fitzgerland, Atom & His Package, Radiohead, and absolutely nothing new except the Redbeards album Eric gave me and some tracks Matthew made.
Eating: Tuna, tomatoes, spinach, and cucumbers (to fix increasingly urgent iron and protein deficiencies… dude, I bruised my thigh weeks ago, and it’s still blue).
Running: 5.2 mph for 30 minutes a day. (Totally respectable for someone with short legs.)
Debating: Keeping bangs or growing them out.
Snow: Has been above my knees twice so far this season. (But I layer and I keep warm, Mom, so worry less.)
Today: Read Murakami, worked on CogSci paper, called sister, organized shelves, cleaned bedroom so it smelled like lemons, worked on CogSci paper, made tomato sandwich, read CHILDES transcripts, rearranged art on bedroom walls, coded BabyCam, read Eggers, Dan came over, went out to buy a new door and doorknob, came home, Dan left, practiced tightrope while listening to news podcast, worked on CogSci paper, ate second half of sandwich, talked to Steve, worked on CogSci paper, played with guitar, guitar super out of tune, tuned guitar, wrote for fun, got headache, took Aleve, made PJ’s coffee, drank PJ’s coffee in the dark while listening to audiobook Ayn Rand, worked on CogSci paper, emailed Katherine, wrote this.
Now: Bed.