Work and books and really good soup
Aug. 23rd, 2004 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaFirst day of work went well enough--it's vaguely ironic since I'm sure I would have been voted by my class LEAST likely to end up in a corporate library. I'm fairly certain that I'll find it interesting enough, but it will just reinforce my certainty that as a long-term career move, I'd much rather be in a public library. Anyhow, it is a rather large relief to be back in a library at all. (Somehow, it all inevitably will come down to shelf-reading, I'm sure of it...) And it sounds like there's a possibility that it might last longer than seven weeks. Here's hoping.
We saw Supersize Me last night. It made me very glad that we don't habitually eat fast food, or drink a lot of pop. Yeck. More than anything, it was the bit about school cafeterias that got to me. Offer junior high school kids a menu of pizza, curly fries, and jello, and you expect them to make responsible food choices? Mmm-HMMM. Then we went grocery shopping, bought almost all fresh produce, and I made chunky winter vegetable soup. It's been that kind of weather, all cold and grey and wet. We did not make it to Shakespeare in the Park, alas.
So, I'm reading The Innkeeper's Song by Peter Beagle. I started it a year ago on the plane, on the way home from Torcon. Then, it ended up behind a bunch of other books and I forgot that I was reading it. So I've started it again, and it's all lyrical and mythic and I'm enjoying it immensely. And all of a sudden, whoa, group sex! But, y'know, poetic group sex. *g* It only seemed discongrouous in retrospect, from a certain point of view.
I've also got half a dozen or so ya books to blurb here that I've read in the last week and a half or so. The list: The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, Teen Idol by Meg Cabot, Heartbeat by Sharon Creech, Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth, Sorcerers of the Nightwing by Geoffery Huntington, An Ocean Apart, a World Away by Lensey Namioka, Touch of the Clown by Glen Huser, Wren to the Rescue, Wren's Quest, and Wren's War by Sherwood Smith, Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, and The Collected Allison Dare Little Miss Adventures by J. Torres and J. Bone.
We saw Supersize Me last night. It made me very glad that we don't habitually eat fast food, or drink a lot of pop. Yeck. More than anything, it was the bit about school cafeterias that got to me. Offer junior high school kids a menu of pizza, curly fries, and jello, and you expect them to make responsible food choices? Mmm-HMMM. Then we went grocery shopping, bought almost all fresh produce, and I made chunky winter vegetable soup. It's been that kind of weather, all cold and grey and wet. We did not make it to Shakespeare in the Park, alas.
So, I'm reading The Innkeeper's Song by Peter Beagle. I started it a year ago on the plane, on the way home from Torcon. Then, it ended up behind a bunch of other books and I forgot that I was reading it. So I've started it again, and it's all lyrical and mythic and I'm enjoying it immensely. And all of a sudden, whoa, group sex! But, y'know, poetic group sex. *g* It only seemed discongrouous in retrospect, from a certain point of view.
I've also got half a dozen or so ya books to blurb here that I've read in the last week and a half or so. The list: The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, Teen Idol by Meg Cabot, Heartbeat by Sharon Creech, Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth, Sorcerers of the Nightwing by Geoffery Huntington, An Ocean Apart, a World Away by Lensey Namioka, Touch of the Clown by Glen Huser, Wren to the Rescue, Wren's Quest, and Wren's War by Sherwood Smith, Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, and The Collected Allison Dare Little Miss Adventures by J. Torres and J. Bone.
