This past week has been densely packed with activities. Unfortunately, very little of what I’ve done was particularly interesting – medical stuff, money and tax stuff, home repair stuff, bills, grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, and then of course there was my job and volunteer work. This afternoon, things should be slowing down and I’ll be able to return to, my favorite, unstructured time. I sure bristle at schedules; I think it’s because, as a hairdresser, my days are scheduled down to the minute. When I’m off work, I like to be free to do whatever I please. I like to roam around like I could when I was a kid. Alas, those days are gone, so occasionally, I have to act like an adult and take care of business.
I’ve only been able to read 36 of the 86 pages in part 4 of Anna Karenina.
While I’m eating lunch and dinner, I squeeze in a few minutes of TV. During lunch I watch The View. At dinnertime, Lutrell and I watch The Colbert Report, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, CNN, and auto racing and pro cycling when they’re in season. All of it is prerecorded on our TIVO system, and we fast forward through much of it. Dietitians always advise against watching television and eating at the same time, but were guilty of doing it anyway.
On Sunday, I’m 100% certain that I’ll be watching the Academy Awards during dinner and after. I look forward to the Oscars every year. I like to see how the size ones and zeros look from head to toe – hair, clothes, jewelry, shoes, clutches, whatever they’ve got going on is fine with me. I like seeing what the guys are up to fashion-wise too. It’s always a nail-biting thrill to hear what the actors say on the red carpet, because that’s when they often reveal their true humanness. Sometimes they come across as great, and then occasionally they really flub-up, and that’s amusing, not to be cruel or anything. I just dig the show.
Last night I drove down to Marin, to Book Passage. Jasmin Darznik was launching her wonderfully successful memoir, The Good Daughter. There certainly was no flubbing-up from her. I can say I knew Jamin when. I met her five plus years ago when we were both in a writing class together. At the time, she was wrestling with writing her doctoral thesis, but yearning to work on something more personal. We all encouraged her to follow her heart, and she did. Today, she not only has a book on the New York Times best seller list, but she also has her PhD…from Princeton! Her memoir is the amazing story of what happened after she discovered an old photograph of her mother as a 14 year old child bride in Iran. The man in the photograph was not Jasmin’s father. The unraveling of many secrets held by her mother ultimately brought mother and daughter closer together than they had ever been. Well done Jasmin!
Lutrell and I did get out one evening for an aerobic walk. Our efforts were rewarded by the sighting of a small bobcat. Lutrell took these pictures with a camera that has a telescopic lens. We were nowhere near as close as these pictures suggest. The animal was a beauty.
Glen Ellen Bobcat 2-19-11
Glen Ellen Bobcat 2-19-11
Have a great week, and I’ll post again next Friday.