Killing time
Leaving for work it about half an hour.
The girls' spaying has been postponed until Momotaro is completely over his cold. They don't want to put the kittens under for surgery while their immune systems might be weakened. Fair enough. I just hope they don't go into heat again in the meantime.
I proctored the diagnostic SAT test for my first Kaplan class yesterday. Only 6 (of 11, I expect) students showed up. It was dreadfully boring and freezing in the room, but I read 200 pages of Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" in the process. I'm not so nervous anymore about being at the front of the classroom, but I'm kind of dreading teaching this material. It's something I've always been averse to, and I really feel like I've sold out. I'd rather be working at the restaurant, to be honest. It's more fun, more active, and (at this point) more lucrative.
Things at the restaurant have been going *fairly* well, considering it was just our first week. I made ~$400 last week in tips. I'm hoping I can keep it up. Working 5 shifts a week at the restaurant (I'm eating a lot of yakiniku, but hey it's free), teaching Kaplan twice a week, class at Columbia twice a week... We'll see.
"On Beauty" is so far the best of the three Zadie Smith books I've read (the other two being "Autograph Man," which I enjoyed, and "White Teeth," which I couldn't make myself finish). It has less of that over-the-top "look at me I'm so clever" quality that I feel so many novels (including White Teeth) have these days, and the characters are less extreme, more real.
Brett's college friend Yael Goldstein just published her first novel, "Overture," and so far it's getting good reviews. She's having a reading the 25th at which Brett's ex will be playing violin. Still debating whether or not I want to go with him. In any case, congratulations to Yael. I read her mother Rebecca Goldstein's "The Mind-Body Problem" a little while back. I thought it good but depressing. It made me anxious, but I *had* to finish it. Heh. Trying to make an effort to read more from now on. When did I stop? It's sad that I stopped.
Can't believe my sister's 28 today, and Brett turns 29 next month. And I'll be 24 this year, and I'm teaching SAT prep to 16 yr olds!
The girls' spaying has been postponed until Momotaro is completely over his cold. They don't want to put the kittens under for surgery while their immune systems might be weakened. Fair enough. I just hope they don't go into heat again in the meantime.
I proctored the diagnostic SAT test for my first Kaplan class yesterday. Only 6 (of 11, I expect) students showed up. It was dreadfully boring and freezing in the room, but I read 200 pages of Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" in the process. I'm not so nervous anymore about being at the front of the classroom, but I'm kind of dreading teaching this material. It's something I've always been averse to, and I really feel like I've sold out. I'd rather be working at the restaurant, to be honest. It's more fun, more active, and (at this point) more lucrative.
Things at the restaurant have been going *fairly* well, considering it was just our first week. I made ~$400 last week in tips. I'm hoping I can keep it up. Working 5 shifts a week at the restaurant (I'm eating a lot of yakiniku, but hey it's free), teaching Kaplan twice a week, class at Columbia twice a week... We'll see.
"On Beauty" is so far the best of the three Zadie Smith books I've read (the other two being "Autograph Man," which I enjoyed, and "White Teeth," which I couldn't make myself finish). It has less of that over-the-top "look at me I'm so clever" quality that I feel so many novels (including White Teeth) have these days, and the characters are less extreme, more real.
Brett's college friend Yael Goldstein just published her first novel, "Overture," and so far it's getting good reviews. She's having a reading the 25th at which Brett's ex will be playing violin. Still debating whether or not I want to go with him. In any case, congratulations to Yael. I read her mother Rebecca Goldstein's "The Mind-Body Problem" a little while back. I thought it good but depressing. It made me anxious, but I *had* to finish it. Heh. Trying to make an effort to read more from now on. When did I stop? It's sad that I stopped.
Can't believe my sister's 28 today, and Brett turns 29 next month. And I'll be 24 this year, and I'm teaching SAT prep to 16 yr olds!
posted by Bibhatsu at 14:36
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I agree with you that I liked On Beauty best, then Autograph Man, then White Teeth. But On Beauty makes me nervous about (staying in) academia. Is it really that petty? I've got to believe she made it more soap-opera than it really is, just to make the inter-class, inter-racial observations she does. I joined a discussion group for "On Beauty," but it was mostly - what is Smith saying about beauty? Kiki is beautiful, but then how do you justify her behavior with the maid, etc. Reminds me why I didn't become an English major - I have no clue.
I am almost an anitque (doesn't mean valuable). It's great to be in 20s. Advance happy birthday to Brett. You see, I may forget. I may be catching senioritis.
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