October 2010
8 posts
So these days I have a class on Tuesday afternoons, for which I leave the office after the lunch hour to take the bus from the hospital to the university. There’s a shuttle but it leaves before the lunch hour and I need that extra hour at my desk, because I’m one of those people who never take advantage of an opportunity to loosen up or slack off, work-wise. And then I’m in a...
“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never...”
– Roberto Bolaño, Last Evening on Earth, via Walk While Reading
As I was getting off the bus to rush to class, someone sitting right next to the door held out his hand to stop me for a moment and said, “Excuse me, I’m sure you get this all the time, but you look at lot like —” The noise of traffic drowned out most of the name, but I caught enough to know who he meant just as I leaned down and asked him to repeat. “Julia...
Today may not have been the best day for a vacation. Our water has been off since 9:30am and will stay off until 4pm, due to the garage repairs. Scott filled containers and bottles and pitchers and bowls with water before I even woke up this morning, so we are stocked for the day. I showered much earlier than I normally would on a day off, so it already feels like mid-afternoon. I could just as...
