- I never seem to sleep anymore. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.
- Sometimes I think this baby is going to forgo labor entirely and just kick his way out of my uterus.
- The cat has been exceptionally sweet lately--and by lately, I mean from the day I entered the third trimester, creepily enough.
- If I never ate anything other than chicken cesar salad from my favorite take-out place and ice cream, I'd be unbelievably happy. But I don't think that would go over very well with the man.
- I will be 7 months pregnant before the goddamn escalator at my Metro stop is fixed. This escalator has been out of commission since the beginning of my pregnancy. It is difficult not to take this as a personal slight. Fuck you, WMATA.
- I'd probably get fired if I curled up under my desk and took a nap, right? But on days like today, it seems worth the risk.
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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.
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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.
I say curl up under the desk. If they fire you get them for sex discrimination, sue the fuck out of them and then spend your days as a stay at home mom, singer and writer.
Posted by: Michelle | August 16, 2007 at 12:48 PM