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It's about 9 AM, I'm drinking tea. Last week, I was kind of re-instituting nap time at around 7:30, but I missed my window for today, and just figured I'd see how the day goes. Our carafe broke - the glass spout snapped neatly off on Thursday - so I went to Bodum's site to order another since the three cup wasn't in stock at local retailers. Filtering cold brew without a press filter turned out to be a chore, so I've switched from coffee to tea for a little while. I like tea a lot, but it's not the same, and it makes me sick on an empty stomach so I've had to make sure to eat something, too. All in all, I'm not nuts about a change in my morning schedule, but the new carafe should be here soon.
They nabbed Manafort and Gates, btw, and not on something small. 12 charges including conspiracy against the US. I'm not "happy" about stuff like this, and "exciting" isn't always good - but it's good that these guys have been busted. This is the opening salvo, so I'm fascinated to see how far it'll go.
We spent the weekend in, since we're completely broke, but it was still relaxing. Kay spent the Saturday and Sunday playing the South Park game, and I spent it playing Persona: IS on the PSP and reading. I hit my count of four books for October - I finished Trotsky's autobiography, George Gissing's The Odd Women, Theodore Adorno's The Culture Industry, and Fight Club was a light read I finished much sooner than anticipated. I'd never read Fight Club, actually, and it was a good, well-paced novel. The debate surrounding it is still fierce, which I think is interesting. Kind of a hallmark of the systemically problematic art piece that also possesses merit. I don't tend to care much for victorian or regency fiction, so it's no surprise that I wasn't excited by Gissing, but I read it because it's kind of famous and I wanted to make sure I was familiar with it in case I needed to discuss it ever. Adorno was theory, and I don't care much for Adorno from what I've read, but it was useful enough. I genuinely enjoyed reading Trotsky. I actually have read exactly zero of his theory, but his writing on the biography was crisp, even though it ran to the self-aggrandizement. A lot of it, I'm sure, was feeling the need to vindicate himself against Stalin's claims.
I've made good strides in my fiction writing - I did a little better than average last week. I've done poorly proceeding with my non-fiction writing, and I put in resumes for four positions last week. I'm looking at a few more positions this week. I did talk to a recruiter about a six month position in St Louis, but the hours were a very bad fit and the pay wasn't worth travelling across the river even a little bit. The search goes on. Winter's are always very tough here, and we were very certain things would have gotten better. It's unfortunate, but we're very much looking at losing our health care again.
They nabbed Manafort and Gates, btw, and not on something small. 12 charges including conspiracy against the US. I'm not "happy" about stuff like this, and "exciting" isn't always good - but it's good that these guys have been busted. This is the opening salvo, so I'm fascinated to see how far it'll go.
We spent the weekend in, since we're completely broke, but it was still relaxing. Kay spent the Saturday and Sunday playing the South Park game, and I spent it playing Persona: IS on the PSP and reading. I hit my count of four books for October - I finished Trotsky's autobiography, George Gissing's The Odd Women, Theodore Adorno's The Culture Industry, and Fight Club was a light read I finished much sooner than anticipated. I'd never read Fight Club, actually, and it was a good, well-paced novel. The debate surrounding it is still fierce, which I think is interesting. Kind of a hallmark of the systemically problematic art piece that also possesses merit. I don't tend to care much for victorian or regency fiction, so it's no surprise that I wasn't excited by Gissing, but I read it because it's kind of famous and I wanted to make sure I was familiar with it in case I needed to discuss it ever. Adorno was theory, and I don't care much for Adorno from what I've read, but it was useful enough. I genuinely enjoyed reading Trotsky. I actually have read exactly zero of his theory, but his writing on the biography was crisp, even though it ran to the self-aggrandizement. A lot of it, I'm sure, was feeling the need to vindicate himself against Stalin's claims.
I've made good strides in my fiction writing - I did a little better than average last week. I've done poorly proceeding with my non-fiction writing, and I put in resumes for four positions last week. I'm looking at a few more positions this week. I did talk to a recruiter about a six month position in St Louis, but the hours were a very bad fit and the pay wasn't worth travelling across the river even a little bit. The search goes on. Winter's are always very tough here, and we were very certain things would have gotten better. It's unfortunate, but we're very much looking at losing our health care again.