Food! Books! Music!
I am really glad it is Friday.
Yesterday, we got cable internet. It wasn’t very expensive when compared with our old DSL service, and what’s more, this one actually works. And it’s much faster. I’m still wrestling to get the printer and external drives set up with our multiple-Mac laptop setup, because I am not so good with networking, but Apple makes it much easier. Hurrah!
And as a result, I was able to keep tabs on the World Series while we watched the Season 4 premiere of The Office on the NBC website. Yes, we’re behind, but we were very happy. Happier still that the Sox hung on.
Someone blogged about having a grilled pepperjack cheese sandwich and now I am CRAVING grilled cheese; I looked it up, though, and the grilled cheese restaurant is someone on the lower east side, and I’m not warm enough to wander around town today. I will make do.
Tonight, I am seeing Over the Rhine and Rosie Thomas, which should be an excellent concert. Tom couldn’t go, so I replaced him with Catherine, who was happy to oblige. This is the Trumpet Child tour, and I think Rosie’s just along for the ride.
Tomorrow involves some celebratory cooking, drinking, and eating around Angela’s birthday. She has a menu planned with food that sounds very good, and I shall make a roast (beast?) and other lovely edibles. Mmmm.
I finished Housekeeping yesterday and started Atonement today, and I’m already obsessed. Love reading good books. Tom hauled our copy of Anna Karenina off the shelf last night (something like 900 pages) and brought it to work with him. And I have What is the What on deck.
I’m a bit boring today. But I’m hungry.
Danielle wrote:
I loved “Anna Karenina.” It earns it’s place as a classic, because in my opinion it’s one of the best books ever written. I was a little disappointed with “Housekeeping” after reading “Gilead.” I’m not sure what I expected, but something different then it was.
Posted on 26-Oct-07 at 2:50 pm | Permalink
Katherine wrote:
Have a great time at the concert! To me, Over the Rhine concert days are one of the biggest holidays of the year. :-)
Posted on 26-Oct-07 at 3:14 pm | Permalink
tala wrote:
I liked Housekeeping better than Gilead, probably because I was in a stage of liking very obscure, hard-to-decipher-intellectually writing. Not that I don’t like it any longer, but I’m not as obsessed with it. Perhaps because I spend less time at home moodily contemplating solitude or alienation, haha. By the way, since I have no time to read books of my choice during the week, I spend the weekends reading a bit, so I’m still working on Kathleen Norris- but I’m loving it. :D
Posted on 27-Oct-07 at 1:35 pm | Permalink