Book update for July

Just finished Wuthering Heights last night. Now my currently reading list consists of:
Les Miserables
Jane Eyre
The 10 PM Question
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

also, I'm almost done with my first draft of Into the Flames. Just about two thousand words to go, really, if I end it where I think I'm going to. THen it's time for a complete re-read and mock-up/brainstorm to get motivated for the second draft!

My last day of work at Sonic is next Wednesday. Hopefully will be hearing more about my potential job at Tate today or tomorrow.

Jeggings and other thoughts on pant trends.

I'm sorry, but Jeggings? Really? In a society where almost two-thirds of the population are obese, who thought that these would be a good idea?
Also, just let me say a few more things on fashion while I'm here. I am so glad that long shirts are back. I know that they make my hips looks as big as they are (and let's be thankful I finally have hips), but that is a welcome change to the continual tugging I endured to keep my gut covered a few years ago. And why are skinny jeans back? I hate to envision myself as an old person with over-the-belly-button pants with tucked in t-shirts, but that's going to be my equivalent if skinny jeans continue in this way. I refuse to give up my ankle-flappers (flares and boot-cuts)! Not only do that flap, plus they're a lot easier to roll up if you find yourself spontaneously wading through a muddy creek bed without a change of pants in the foreseeable future (as I did a couple of weekends ago in Copperas Cove).
Lunch break almost being over, I will now return to my delight work.

Time changes everything

Through some weird twist of scheduling, I don't have to go to work at Sonic tomorrow until 9:30, which means I don't have to go to bed at some unreasonably early hour. It's funny how the world looks different when you're not sitting around just dreading the time you have to go to bed just to get up insanely early to go to a job you're not particularly fond of. When I got home from Edmond today, I make beef teriyaki for dinner, spent time with Bella, washed a few dishes and wiped down the counters, read my book, and cleaned the toilets. This was all accomplished an hour before I normally go to bed. And yet, if I had to get up early tomorrow, instead I would have spent the evening feeling like I had no time to do anything and so just play on facebook and watch some tv. Isn't perspective weird?
And then, with all this free time I had left, I browsed goodreads for over an hour and found way too many books that I don't have time to read. So sad. So instead I will go back to reading Wuthering Heights, because if I finish it then I can move on to another book in my very large pile beside my bed. Hope you all are having a productive day and a hopeful start to your work week.

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Why has no one told me about goodreads before? I know it's just another social networking site, and there's probably a lot of them out there for just books, but it's so exciting! The girls at Tate were playing on it this morning so I decided to check it out. Apparently you can also win free books there.
Some other thoughts from Tate:
Why are there twenty books of matches in the bathroom? There are no candles or anything else flammable. Seven weeks and this still confounds me.
Shadow editing with James this week. I have grown in confidence as I have read over some of Kalyn's edits so I hope I'm doing well.
I've become distracted. I don't know what else I was going to say. So back to work!

Independence

I wonder if people realize just how amazing our government is. Sure, we don't like our presidents or our judges or a lot of the people in our legislature. But at least we still have the same system of government since the inception of our country. Others can be voted in and things can change. I've been reading Les Miserables lately, and in a single person's lifetime, the government in France changed four different times. Monarchy, an age of terror while the people tried to rule, then Napoleon took over, then another King, then another uprising of the Republic. That is the norm, and we are the exception. Even if it feels like everything is going to hell in a hand-basket, we haven't had a civil war in over a hundred and fifty years. I find that very encouraging.
In other thoughts, Sean and I joined the neighbourhood and set off some fireworks. Now I'm watching 1776. Nothing like a musical to make one feel patriotic.

Chronicles of Narnia

Today I listened to the soundtrack to Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. Then I embarrassed myself over how excited I got over the new trailer for Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Then I decided to reread the whole Chronicles of Narnia before December. Some people *coughCalebcough* think the series to pedantic and shallow, but I find both the stories and the metaphors to be right at my level. I always come away from the books with something new to think about. Maybe that just makes me the shallow one. So be it.