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March 30, 2016
atypical
Went out for lunch today. I know what you're thinking. Lunch out, for the second week in a row? How unlike whyme!
Last week was a work obligation, but this week was just me and co-workers meeting a retired former co-worker for lunch. Nothing special; just a nice vent session at the local Olive Garden, bitching about work over soup, salad and breadsticks. It was actually kind of nice, and although I'm not big on socializing with my co-workers, I had a good time. Maybe because it's lunch, and everyone stays in a semi-work-mode, it didn't bother me as much.
Got off easy for dinner, though. After making baked pork chops, rice pilaf, and green beans on Monday, and BLTs and sweet corn on Tuesday, Spouse gave me tonight off. Yep--he brought home fried chicken. Well, it's from our favorite place, and as long as I didn't have to cook, I was okay with it. Then he opened it up and they'd forgotten the french fries in both dinners! What the heck. I hate their coleslaw, no fries--dinner was basically chicken, and a roll. No wonder I was falling asleep in my chair by 9:00.
Reading: "Harriet and the Piper" (1920), by Kathleen Norris
Just finished with this. Kathleen Norris can be problematic for me. She was good on heroines with common sense, but also pretty big on religion and morality. The thing is, I think she really understood what her readers wanted at the time she was writing. And fortunately, this is one of hers I ended up enjoying.
"Harriet and the Piper" was not without its issues on the morality front, but I loved it, because it had a lot going on. It hit on about a dozen items on my list of vintage romance tropes, including some of my favorites (heroine is quiet & capable, 'fell in love with his wife' ). It also had good house porn, good dress porn, good competence porn and a couple of interesting twists. Plus, there's no lack of people calculated to inspire a good, old-fashioned, burning hatred in the reader's heart. And the heroine isn't perfect--she has some real struggle over her ethics and her materialism. All in all, it was a decent read.
Listening: Lorde, Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash
Inked Up: I've barely written anything by hand all week. Just not in the mood to get my fingers inky right now, and every meeting I've had scheduled this week has been cancelled, so I haven't even needed to take notes. I need to take both myself, and pen in hand and get back on track.
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