Bearshorty's musings

I had my Doctor’s appointment in the morning. The test was quicker than I thought it would be and not too uncomfortable. I’m just glad to get that done. And the time waiting in the office passed quickly with a book.

On the walk home I did some food shopping. I’m having guests over on Sunday and Bear is staying here from Sunday until Tuesday so I’m thinking up food menus. I’m definitely going to bake banana bread and maybe make baked ziti on Monday. For Sunday I’m thinking stir fry with Thai Red Curry Sauce and a fresh salad and bbq in the afternoon with burgers. I do love having a kitchen to myself.

I do love modern technology. I called parents in France this afternoon from Skype and talked with them for more than 20 minutes for less than a dollar. They are doing a bus tour of Switzerland and French Riviera and visiting a lot of cities. They wanted me to come with them and part of me wishes to visit all those places (I only been to Zurich and Nice) but I’m enjoying my solitude.

Our government newly renewed ability to look up library records and other personal information like that for ‘suspected terrorist activity’ makes me very uncomfortable. Patriot Act is so creepy.

Very true Cracked article: 5 things nobody tells you about being poor.

It is 1:40 in the morning and I just finished reading “Hunger Games.” I think I read half the book just today. After 8pm, I did something I haven’t done in a long time – I turned off the TV and closed my laptop and went into the computer room to its nice couch to read. And I kept reading and reading. It has been a while. But I just did not want to stop. I did take a break to talk to Bear on the phone and then wash the dishes (when I lived by myself I always wash all the dishes right before I go to sleep, it is soothing and I reverted to old patterns) but otherwise I just read.
( thoughts on Hunger Games )

I maybe got at most five hours of sleep last night. This whole week, I’ve been busy so I would get 5 to 6 hours. I really need a day to sleep in. On top of all the grading I’ve been doing (and all I have to do), I know I need rest.

Today grading total – 14 papers for Writing class.

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Since it is Passover and I can’t buy lunch I brought my mazza and turkey sandwich with me to school. And a banana. And I decided to go buy French fries for my tired brain. So I did. I can’t have ketchup (it has high fructose corn syrup which I can’t have this week) but the fries were delicious.

Today was an easy teaching day. My students did evaluations for a bit and I got to enjoy the sun for ten minutes.

So a little while ago I checked out the first chapter of “Hunger Games” since I heard things about it and I figured I would pick up the book eventually this summer. I mentioned it to Papa that day in passing. We were in the car today, after he picked me up from work and having a conversation and sci-fi and books and he stared giving his opinion on “Hunger Games” after I mentioned it as something to recommend to a daughter of his friend. And I was like “did you read the reviews or something?” Turns out he downloaded it into his Kindle from some free Russian site and has been secretly reading it. He just finished the first book. He thought the author took the easy way out on some plots and I had to yell at him for not spoiling it. But he did like it enough to download the second one. So once my parents go on vacation in May, I will read it on his Kindle. My dad is awesome. We do have similar tastes in books and TV so those are our bonding activities. We watch “True Blood” and “Dexter” together and he watched “Buffy” and "Firefly" and “Farscape” and “Battlestar Galactica” and "Dollhouse" and "Caprica" with me. And read “Harry Potter.” He rocks. (although watching 'True Blood' gets a bit awkward occasionally at sexy scenes) We are going to try "Game of Thrones" tomorrow.

“Community” just reached a whole new level of awesomeness. I laughed so hard and so often. I love you, show. ( Happy random exclamations about the episode ) I have a feeling I will watch this episode a couple of more time this weekend.

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As I started watching “Bones”, I realized just how much I couldn’t care. Especially as it is a backdoor pilot. So just watched the cold open. I think I might be done once this season is over.