- Today is the first day I'm almost absolutely certain I feel the baby moving around, which I suppose should be recorded for posterity. I expected it to feel really unsettling, like something out of Alien, but it actually feels pretty normal. Maybe it will feel more surreal when I start getting kicked and punched from the inside. Right now it feels like bubbles popping. This seems to happen at random times throughout the day, without much rhyme or reason.
- Y'all really need to go check out the Chaucer Blogger's latest post. "Im in ur pilgrymage messin with ur cortly luv paradime." Priceless. Absolutely fucking priceless.
- I have been such an unbelievable slacker in my garden. I don't even have any basil set out yet, and it is June. JUNE, people! I don't know whyfore the slack. I'm going with the whole "I'm pregnant and all my nurturing instincts are turned inward towards the baby" theory. Well, the baby and the cat. R can fend for himself.
- We have a friend staying with us, and he is loaning us some Highlander DVDs. There can be only one! I am so excited I'm not even ashamed.
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Books
Annie Dillard: The Living: A Novel
Currently reading.Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Part feminist outcry against the Islamic regime in Iran, but mostly a love letter to books. Nafisi looks at Lolita, Daisy Miller, The Great Gatsby, and Pride and Prejudice not only as works of literature themselves, but through the lens of students during the heyday of the Islamic revolution. My only caveat? It helps to have read the books she discusses.Lauren Weisberger: Everyone Worth Knowing
I picked this up at the airport. After hearing about my grandmother's death I just couldn't deal with "Silent Spring," and this seemed less objectionable than Nora Roberts or Michael Crichton. I finished it, mainly to see if it could really keep up the flow of utter awfulness and banality right up until the end. Easily the worst book I've read since that romance novel about the Corgi. Avoid at all costs.Amy Stewart: Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
One of the most interesting nonfiction books I've read recently. Stewart examines the cut-flower industry, and you'll never look at flowers the same way again. A must-read for anyone who buys flowers.
Listening
She moved through the fair
Jean Redpath: First Flight
Redpath does the most evocative version of this song I've ever heard.I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II- Queen Jane
Custer LaRue: Custer LaRue Sings The Daemon Lover Funeral Ikos
Christopher Robinson: Tavener: Song for Athene/Svyati
One of the most starkly beautiful melodies I've ever heard, this meditative chant on death and the afterlife stuns me anew every time I hear it.
There can be only one!
I really love that series. BTW - you should check out a British series called Black Books. Netflix it.
Posted by: Michelle | June 05, 2007 at 06:11 PM