Finished This Week

 

 Yes to American Panda and No to The Belles

What Am I Reading?

I am leaving this week for my annual silent retreat.  Some people head to monasteries. I go to vet conferences in Las Vegas.  For a week I listen to lectures for 8 hours a day and speak to no one but waiters.  It is lovely.  I haven’t done as much prep as normal yet. 

Things to do:

  • Search out the latest and greatest vegan offerings in Vegas – Done and some reservations made including a restaurant where you eat in the dark and have no idea what you are eating
  • Download harp albums from the library onto my phone to lull me to sleep during my flight
  • Pick out what lectures I’m going to.  This is started.  I’m down to about 2-4 per hour that I’d like to hear.  It is hard this year to narrow them down.  Only vets have thoughts like, “Chronic diarrhea lecture with free food?  That sounds good.  But that’s the same time as Handling Nasty Infected Wounds- now with extra pictures!  Such a hard choice….“
  • Pick out what books I’m taking.  I know, this should be priority one.  I get so much reading done in these weeks.  I keep thinking that I have so many books on my iPad and through that have access to my library and Amazon, so why plan?  This way lies madness, I know.  I’m know I’m running out of time to read A Wrinkle in Time before the movie comes out.  I have a vague recollection of DNFing this book as a kid.  I thought it was boring.  I want to revisit that before the movie.

 

What Am I Listening To? 

 

“Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows him from his early days growing up in New Jersey, through his years as a struggling standup comic in New York, and on to the short-lived but acclaimed The Jon Stewart Show. And she charts his humbling string of near-misses—passed over as a replacement for shows hosted by Conan O’Brien, Tom Snyder, and even the fictional Larry Sanders—before landing on a half-hour comedy show that at the time was still finding its footing amidst roiling internal drama.“

I was thrashing around looking for an audiobook.  I DNFed one and wandered away from another but I’ll probably go back to it.  I have a highly anticipated one hitting Audible in about a week so I’m killing time with this one.  Not a great recommendation I know, but it is entertaining enough.Â