Sunday, February 13, 2011

[bearshorty]

My taxes are done. I’m very happy to get it over with. We’ve been going to an accountant in Brooklyn for probably ten years now and he just makes it easy. I give him $75 and in half an hour he e-files the taxes. All my refunds will later magically appear in my bank account. The power of the internet and the made up money that no one sees. And it is all refunds this year, a nice chunk of it too. Go vacation this year!

We also stopped by my grandparents. They always want to give us food, most of it they receive from various places. They had tomato juice this time and I was really craving it for some reason.

Writing “Persia and Alexander” lecture was pretty easy since I really just needed to do Persia – I taught Alexander the Great before. One of my first historical novels, that I read when I was maybe 6 or 7 was about Alexander the Great – so he holds a fold place in my heart. But it was really fun to focus on Persia too and present both sides of that story.

In honor of the fake romantic holiday a Cracked article on 6 most cynical exploitations of romantic love in history .

I watched “Brothers and Sisters” in the evening. Saul is adorable.

Exercise: walk