We could stay inside and play games, I don't know

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER! NBC11 STORM WATCH! We've got some big storms happening out here and they rule. Except probably not for those people in three feet of standing water and mud in Daly City. Sorry dudes. How does that happen, anyway, getting a house full of mud during a rainstorm? It's not like it's a mudstorm. Oh the mysteries of West Coast life. The flooding, the craziness, it still amazes me. How can one day of heavy rain cause such drama? Aren't there gutters out here? Don't they work? Who engineered this state? Why can't we all live in peace?

Lately whenever I watch "Starting Over" I get the urge to read more books. Like, "Hey, maybe I should finally read John Dewey's Art as Experience like I was supposed to in college," or, "Remember Naomi Wolf? Wow, those were the days," or whatever. I also have a tendency to have six half-read books lying around at any given time because, you know, the adult ADD and all, can't finish anything. But when you're sitting there watching a crazy Mormon girl get a hematoma drained on TV, you can't help but think to yourself, "I really ought to read more books." So when I got sick over the weekend, it was like perfect timing. Before the migraine showed up at the exciting conclusion. But you know, I still got it in there. I finally finished The Group which I totally stalled out on after Christmas. That part that's all about the Prothero family butler, man, that is hard to get through. But I finished it ... yesterday? Monday? Anyway, I completed a task, hooray for me. Not to be outdone, I finally finished Fredric Dannen's Hit Men which I totally stalled out on before Christmas because it's a hardcover and The Group, much more portable for the planes and the whatnot. People in the music business are wack, I'm not sure if you knew that, but that's what you learn in that book. I just finished that like ten minutes ago! Thrilling.

I also applied for that job today, and I signed up for this employment recruitment service thing that's offered by my alumni association. Three years in purgatory, expensive purgatory, has gotta be good for something. Look at me, I'm doing stuff, it's like some crazy new world. And reading, it's the hip new thing. Next on the list is Douglas Coupland's Microserfs at the urging of Christopher. Since I got him to read Ghost World five years ago, I guess I owe him at least that much. Of course that had pictures in it. Pictures of girls. But this has a slick foil cover on it and a guy made out of Legos so I'll call it even.

Posted by Kim at February 25, 2004 05:51 PM | Non-Moving Pictures