Rock To Wind A String Around

Popped over to Habesha Child to find this short little meme.  Always late to ride a trend wave, I thought I’d do this now, so as to be one of the cool kids.

I am reading:

Searching for Whitopia by Rich Benjamin.  It is fascinating, well-written, and more than a little scary.  I just finished  Homer & Langley by EL Doctorow, and it was pretty fab too.  Living in the neighborhood with the best library in the country, I am spoiled rotten.  I hear about a great book and can instantly put it in my book bag of reserves.  The books fly my way pretty quickly, so right now my shelves are groaning–I have the newest Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro volumes, and I’ve got more than a few other gems in my reserve queue.

I am drinking:

a little water in a disposable cup.  Elliott’s inability to load the dishwasher properly led me to ban the use of said dishwasher for one week.  Sadly, he is no better at washing by hand.  Sometimes refining behavior through the use of natural consequences is very taxing…

I am listening:

To  The Killers–the Hot Fuss album at the moment.  They are a welcome break in the endless loop of Black-Eyed Peas served several billion times daily for my aural enjoyment.

I am watching:

the latest season of Big Love,  Ugly Betty, and Masterpiece’s brilliant presentation of Clueless, I mean Emma.  I am also waiting for season 6 of Mary Tyler Moore to arrive–the depth of my love for that show cannot be denied!

I am loving:

this cozy winter day.  Sad that Albert is away for an extra day this week, I’ve ‘turned my frown upside down’, and have begun to splash a beautiful yellow (one shade darker than the new kitchen paint) all over my dining room walls.  It is an illness, but I love to paint and I’ve waited far too long to cover those bland walls.  This is the first day at home in an eon–it’s nice to get the impromptu painting done.