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  • Hemmingway, Chiam Potok and most Russian authors:
    These are my "go-to" books.
  • Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

    Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    This is the one I last finished.... If you're interested in the Middle East/Islamic cultures, women's rights and/or the power of literature, you'd probably be a fan. I'm into all three of those, so, yeah, I liked it.

  • Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel

    Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
    My sister is a big fan, so I've decided to check it out. A little more fantastical than my usual fare, but...pretty interesting. I am supplementing it with another book about a childhood spent in Africa so as not to feel too shallow. Not that fun books are "shallow." I just gravitate toward realistic (and, for some reason, usually dark) stuff. So this is different for me. But different might be ok. We'll see....

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October 06, 2007

Nothin' Special - It's Just Saturday

Well, I noticed that I've been putting a post up every Saturday (and only on Saturdays, for that matter) for the past few weeks, so I thought I should continue to uphold that tradition.  Unfortunately, I don't have any new pictures.  ...Which doesn't mean that I have been doing stuff - I just haven't been documenting it, I guess. 

So...I don't have anything great to ramble about - I mostly just got tired of seeing "Something Fishy" up there.  The week was fine and dandy - I spent a day and a half at the Chinese consulate in LA (it was super backed up 'cause it was closed for three days for a Chinese holiday), so that was interesting.  I rode the metro there and back two days in a row and one day waited there from 9:45 am until almost 2pm.  Luckily, I'm reading the Kite Runner (an emotionally hard book but super well written and engaging), so I was set.  And on Thursday night, I went with D and some of her peeps to see a couple members of the band Nickle Creek play.  I wasn't really familiar with their music, but it was a good time.  A good, bluegrassy-type time. 

And what else?  Well, running is going well.  D went with me yesterday, and we saw deer (again), so that was cool.  But still no pictures.  My bad....  And this morning I joined D (that is D to the aphne, by the way) once more to play some flag football.  It was an inward battle for me to go because A) I'm addicted to sports but B) it was at 8:30...a.m.....on a Saturday.  But in the end, sports won.  This time.  I tell ya what, though, it's a beautiful day for doing just about anything outside - another beautiful, sunny day in Pasadena.  : )

Anyways, guess that's all I got.  No big plans for the coming week.  Or even for today.  Mostly, I think I'm just going to think of excuses to be out and about.  I think I need to get some Wheat Chex at the grocery store, actually....  Reason enough, right?  : )

Ok, hope all is well with all o' ya - enjoy the day....

Comments

any luck with the wheat chex?

p.s. i'm in class : )

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  • *WHERE*
    Pasadena, California
  • *WHO*
    Well, I'm Andrea, and this is my blog. Other people's names will pop up now and then, too, but I'll try to explain those as I go.
  • *WHAT*
    I'm still working for the same organization with which I went to China...except now I'm in southern California, assisting OTHER teachers in China (and elsewhere in Asia).
  • *WHEN*
    After graduating college in the summer of 2001, I moved to China and taught English for a year. Then I returned to the States - first to the Northwest, then to Florida - until returning to China (Tibet) in the spring of 2005. After teaching there for three months, I returned to Florida (where I lived a total of almost two years)...then to the Northwest...then back to China in February 2006. I stayed there until July 2007. Then, after a couple of months with my family in the Northwest, I moved to California (September 2007)...which brings us to now. Simple, yeah?
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