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Tonight in the middle of Bible study, as I was trying to get the girls to settle down and talk about the topic at hand, Kristin spotted a ginormous black and white moth, caught it, and proceeded to chase me around the front of the church with it. It ended when I finally convinced two of the other girls to catch her, get the moth away from her, and kill was was left of its mostly smooshed body.
I think Tori just sat there and laughed.
So I just had this epiphany: Oprah is boring and stupid.
At my babysitting ob tonight I had very little top do - the kids went to bed within the first hour and a half, and then I realized that I had left my book home. I next noticed that the only TV in the house was in the same room as the baby, of whom I had faced some small trouble putting to bed, but didn't want to risk waking up. Thankfully I had everything I needed to work on finishing my Bible study in my purse, though I knew it would be a feat of concentration to be able to focus on it for two and a half hours +. I put in a goodly effort, and was quite pleased with myself when I spotted the family's magazine rack. I am a sucker for magazines. But it only contained some Portland Monthly, something I didn't recognize, and "O". Having never actually watched oprah first hadn, or read her magazine (and I have always managed to avoid probbaly every book that has made it on to her book list), I thought, "Well, you can't go wrong with a July issue of a women's mag - it's bound to be interesting."
But nope. Oprah let me down. No interesting biographies. No fun makeup ideas. No health or exercise info. No good recipes (something to do with melon. Boo). No fashion. The closest thing to a point of interest was finding a reference to and interview with a woman from Portland. She's a life coach -wait, a self-esteem coach- who also writes books about being happy with yourself naked. Needless to say, let down again (and, yikes).
There wasn't even a good, tragic story! Oprah - who let you have a magazine? Stick to your TV show and your fluctuating weight and leave us readers to our own entertainment devices, and the world will be a happier place.
As I was chatting with Josh on the phone this morning, I heard his dad in the background say, "Happy first day of Summer!" I was momentarily confused because I associate the first day of summer withe the end of school, rather than the real first day of summer. With that friendly reminder I realized that it must be (though the cold air coming through my slightly open window is no indicator).
But for me, it can't really be summer unless I have finished compiling my summer reading list. This year, rather than my usual list consisting mostly of classics and a few rand m books off my shelves that I haven't finished, I decided to work with a different theme. I'm going to continue reading more books about women in the Middle East, as well as increase my sci-fi/fantasy experience. (With a couple of exceptions)
It's a bit ambitious, but I'm going to give it a go.
A Fragile Stone (Michael Card)
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them (John Ortberg)
The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad)
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)Earth Sea Trilogy (Ursula LeGuin)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling)
A Movable Feast (Hemingway)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
VALIS (Dick)
The Road to San Giovani (Italo Calvino)
Cosmicomics (Calvino)
The Dispossessed (LeGuin)
Always Coming Home (LeGuin)
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Ecco)
Knight's Gambit (Georges Perec)
A Void (Perec)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Last night I had a dream I was babysitting for the Olsen twins. But they were about 18 months and I was my age, so it wasn't like real life because I think they are actually about a year younger than me. So it was weird. But then it got even weirder because there was some sort of flood and one of them almost drowned.
That's it.
This so far has been a week of global learning.
Monday: class on Italian Gothic art
Tuesday: presentation on coping methods in Cairo, movie set in Trinidad, book about life in Iran
Wednesday: paper involving Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Haiti
So much diversity - PSU is really doing its job this quarter. It all has been really interesting, though writing about the Caribbean while it's cold and raining out is kind of painful.
