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27 may 2003

currently reading

A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. I'm only about a third of the way through this book, but I can already tell you that it's one of the best I've read in awhile. Engaging and detailed, this is everyone else's history: Native Americans, women, child laborers, and the poor. Zinn does an outstanding job of balancing what we learned in high school textbooks with a less glorified discussion of our country's oft-violent, imperialist past. I will be incorporating selections from this book into my next batch of 8th-graders' lessons.

current listening

Mose Allison. mmmmmmm....

i bet martha stewart has five of those boxes, too

Some observations. Because I should absolutely be taking time to make observations instead of packing up the rest of my crap.

(1) I am turning into my grandmother. Four expired prescriptions and counting. That'll make Mom proud...(I threw them away, Mom. Honest.)

(2) No matter how well you plan, how long you take in preparations for your move, you will pack at least three final boxes with the following items: three socks, a light bulb, half of a place setting, your favorite Kurt Vonnegut book, two beer mugs from the beach, a towel, and an A/C adaptor to something, but you're not sure what.

You'll mark that last box, "miscellaneous", and unpack it in a year.

Pfft.