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Jul. 6th, 2001
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Jul. 6th, 2001 05:06 pmWell, today has not gone as planned. I didn't fall asleep until about the time I'd have needed to get up if I was going to figure out the drive from here to work. Then after about four hours of sleep I was woken up by my niece. Mom was babysitting her while my sister went to the doctor. Later we all went out to lunch - taking Amelia to a restaurant for the first time. She was very good while we were there. And slept while we ate. Later we went to the store, where Amelia got all fussy because she was hungry.
Still haven't gone out shopping. Did cash my check though. And my dad insisted on going with me, ostensibly so that I could reference his account when cashing the check. There's no fucking way I'm taking him with me everytime I go to cash a check. So, what I'll do is write down the account number and take it with me.
At lunch, my dad was talking about how he told someone he golfed with this morning that I go to school up in Portland. The guy was an Army captain (?) from Portland, and asked which school. When he heard it was Reed, he said, "Oh, the Ivy school of the West Coast." Heh.
Still haven't gone out shopping. Did cash my check though. And my dad insisted on going with me, ostensibly so that I could reference his account when cashing the check. There's no fucking way I'm taking him with me everytime I go to cash a check. So, what I'll do is write down the account number and take it with me.
At lunch, my dad was talking about how he told someone he golfed with this morning that I go to school up in Portland. The guy was an Army captain (?) from Portland, and asked which school. When he heard it was Reed, he said, "Oh, the Ivy school of the West Coast." Heh.
Dinner was chocolate chip cookies. They were perfect.
It's too damn hot! It's been that way all freakin' day. Didn't even cool off much at night. The heat has been such that the air conditioner couldn't keep up today.
I just re-read Catcher in the Rye. I think I was brainwashed the first time I read it. Or something. At any rate, reading it this time was quite a different experience. I found Holden almost insufferable. Maybe because he reminds me of someone I've unfortunately met in some ways. I do think I understood it better this time, though.
And now I need something else to read. I have a whole list of stuff to read, but I have no idea what to start with. My list thus far:
The Face of an Angel, Denise Chavez
The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
City of God, E.L. Doctorow
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (maybe in the original German)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
Also, some authors that I just want to read in general:
Allen Ginsburg
Jack Kerouac (I've read On the Road and Dharma Bums so far.)
Gary Snyder
William S. Burroughs
T.S. Eliot
bell hooks
Salman Rushdie
I want to read more Shakespeare too, but I think for that I want to get a Complete Works, which will wait until I'm back in Portland. I also want to read more non-fiction and poetry.
Suggestions quite welcome.
It's too damn hot! It's been that way all freakin' day. Didn't even cool off much at night. The heat has been such that the air conditioner couldn't keep up today.
I just re-read Catcher in the Rye. I think I was brainwashed the first time I read it. Or something. At any rate, reading it this time was quite a different experience. I found Holden almost insufferable. Maybe because he reminds me of someone I've unfortunately met in some ways. I do think I understood it better this time, though.
And now I need something else to read. I have a whole list of stuff to read, but I have no idea what to start with. My list thus far:
The Face of an Angel, Denise Chavez
The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
City of God, E.L. Doctorow
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (maybe in the original German)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
Also, some authors that I just want to read in general:
Allen Ginsburg
Jack Kerouac (I've read On the Road and Dharma Bums so far.)
Gary Snyder
William S. Burroughs
T.S. Eliot
bell hooks
Salman Rushdie
I want to read more Shakespeare too, but I think for that I want to get a Complete Works, which will wait until I'm back in Portland. I also want to read more non-fiction and poetry.
Suggestions quite welcome.
