I leave for Fairfield, Iowa to visit Mom in three days. I’ll be there from the 22nd-30th. I’ll be bringing my iBook and the (only) local coffeeshop has wi-fi, so I’ve heard, so I should be able to blog while on vacation. This will be my first time back to Fairfield during a holiday season since I moved out to Portland in 1998, so I’ll be seeing a number of former high school mates that I haven’t seen in a long time. Our school, MSAE, was so small (graduating class of 20) that we didn’t have a formal 10-year reunion this year. Since most of those 20 now live outside of Fairfield and fly in to visit parents for the holidays, we figured it would be a great time to meet up. Should be interesting…
I’ve been reading a lot over the holiday break, juggling many books at a time. I finished up a Jensen and a Lakoff, dipped into a little Foucault and Zerzan, and started up my first novel in a long time, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. I have a huge pile of Fall magazines to go through; these weekly New Yorkers are killing me! My other subscriptions include Mother Jones, Adbusters, Bust, Bitch, Off Our Backs, Utne, and Harper’s, and I newly subscribed to Green Anarchy and Fifth Estate in the past week. Too much! Thank goodness I don’t watch television.
Medley said,
December 24, 2004 @ 2:27 am
Oh, I loved the God of Small Things. Roy is a wonderfully evocative writer. It’s one of the few books that got me so just *aware* that I was reading some fine writing that I remember where I was sitting and how the light was and what the weather was like when I was reading it. Some of her essays are really good, too….