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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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May 04, 2008

Work, Play, Eat

Img_2952The week in review:

TH & KM (two friends from work) had b-days; my employer sprung for ice cream at Baskin Robbins to help support fire fighters; Israeli, Thai, Japanese, Mexican (twice) & German food was eaten (if Weinershnitzel really counts as "German food"); watched Raiders of the Lost Ark in preparation of the 4th one coming out in three weeks; a million sticky notes (for work & life) were written, crumpled and rewritten; there was a muffin break somewhere in there...and a coffee run or two; not to mention golf, a few runs, LOST, ToGo's sandwiches and Iron Man.  And this weekend I added "oil change" to my list of errands & completed it.Img_2954 

Oh, and I also got a haircut, but, in order to not worry my sister, I  will mention that it was just a trim. 

And now I will go to bed because my energy level for creative thinking is painfully low.  Here's to a week of productivity, people and life.  Perhaps it'll be a simple as this sign makes it - why complicate things Img_2961with choices, right?  : )

Oh, and two weeks till sister's visit.  Three weeks till lil bro's.  And one till Mother's Day!

(P.S.  I have no good explanation for our work lunch at Weinershnitzel.  Sometimes these things just happen.)Img_2962 

Also, if you've ever wondered what happens if you eat a whole glob of wasabi...wonder no more.  It's not that bad.

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Backstory

  • *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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