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Yesterday was a good day, partly making up for the amount of time I spent on a plane the day before and the craziness that is my mother and her two sisters in the same place at the same time. I had a perfectly luxurious time waking up late, as will happen when going from the west coast to the east. I had a nummy and inexpensive first meal of the day of tofu and string beans at the Pentagon City mall and then went on the library, where I stayed until closing examining their selection of books on Myers-Briggs. (I’m giving a presentation on Myers-Briggs on Monday the 18th.) Then I took the metro to the Smithsonian stop and checked out the end portion of the Cherry Blossom festival. Cherry blossoms are pretty. I walked over to Georgetown to a wonderful independent bookstore there, even managing to navigate without the map of DC that I usually keep in my purse. The plan was to spend some of my inheritance comforting myself for last week. I knew what I wanted, Possession by A.S. Byatt and Freedom and Necessity by Stephen Brust and Emma Bull, two books to which I've kept coming back. So I bought Possession at the independent bookstore, made an impulse purchase of R. Crumb's graphic novel about Kafka, and perused Kazuo Ishiguro's latest, which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
my_sihaya mentioned in her most recent post, at the counter. I will probably check it out from the library at some point and decide if it's worth buying from there. Then, deciding I couldn’t and shouldn’t resist buying Freedom and Necessity, I went on to Barnes & Noble, where I bought it, as well as A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold and a very good book on Myers-Briggs typing.
On Monday, I’m going to a reading that Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything is Illuminated) is giving at Politics & Prose. I’m so excited! I suppose, in this way, I am a fangirl.
Maybe I’ll post later on the events of last week. Or maybe I won’t. The internet at home was not working, and now is on the fritz. I’ve had this curious impulse to focus and get away from my emotions by playing Settlers of Catan, the same way I used to when I lived in Sci-Fi house. I only have Canaan now, but I’m asking for Catan for my birthday.halfsparkle and zenpenguin, we shall have to get together and play board games sometime this week. Plus I finally have the batteries that will allow my digital camera to work, and to be lent.
my_sihaya mentioned in her most recent post, at the counter. I will probably check it out from the library at some point and decide if it's worth buying from there. Then, deciding I couldn’t and shouldn’t resist buying Freedom and Necessity, I went on to Barnes & Noble, where I bought it, as well as A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold and a very good book on Myers-Briggs typing. On Monday, I’m going to a reading that Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything is Illuminated) is giving at Politics & Prose. I’m so excited! I suppose, in this way, I am a fangirl.
Maybe I’ll post later on the events of last week. Or maybe I won’t. The internet at home was not working, and now is on the fritz. I’ve had this curious impulse to focus and get away from my emotions by playing Settlers of Catan, the same way I used to when I lived in Sci-Fi house. I only have Canaan now, but I’m asking for Catan for my birthday.
halfsparkle and zenpenguin, we shall have to get together and play board games sometime this week. Plus I finally have the batteries that will allow my digital camera to work, and to be lent.
