Word nerd

Keeping track out what I'm reading lately (starting roughly at the start of '09). Feel free to make suggestions.

Current
The Cheese Monkeys - A Novel in Two Semesters - Chip Kidd

Completed
Vox - Nicholson Baker
Mother Superior - Saleema Nawaz
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (This was great.)
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Seinlanguage - Jerry Seinfeld (I've read this sooo many times and it's still funny)
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje

On deck
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami




Yes, yes... I read the Twilight series. :)

Staycation - Day 1

Holiday!

Given my impressive amount of banked overtime and unused holidays, my boss forced me to take some time off. Really. I have this entire week off to do absolutely nothing. No plans, no travel, just sweet nothing. A staycation*.

Yesterdays highlights include: a heroic amount of walking (honestly, about 8 kms), a couple meetings, a Grey's Anatomy marathon, delicious dinner making and sleeping in such a way that resulted in one helluva kink in my neck. Awesome.

Today promises to be much more thrilling and domestic. Today, dear readers, I organize my kitchen. How will I contain the excitement?

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* I truly dislike all the new recession-based terminology like "staycation" and "recessionista". Give me a freaking break.

Photo: Square America

Work it out.

I feel like my creative muscles are about to atrophy. I've been forcing myself to do SOMETHING creative every day in attempts to remedy that, and so far I've stuck to it for about a week now. HUGE success. Really. Once the results turn into something a little more interesting, I'll post 'em here.

Don't give up on me yet!

You and your big ideas.

Captured on a recent spur of the moment trip to Kelowna, BC.

I Might Be Wrong

Been feeling a lot of Radiohead love lately. This is one of my favorite songs and videos or theirs.

One more time

Okay, I'm feeling bloggy again. Maybe the ol' blog needs a little revamp and then some posting.

Oh hi Blogger!

Remember me? ... Didn't think so.

So I might not post that frequently here, but now you can follow me on Twitter which is getting a little more of my attention. Check the widget to the right. Microblogging at its finest, people.

A pedicurist's nightmare.

Oh, kickboxing – look what you do to me! Buried under all that sports tape are 5 (yes, 5) bandages, strategically placed over all manner of blister. My mother says this makes me look like "a real althete". I think it makes me look like I'm falling apart.