Post Industrial Brambles

I am going back to work next week. Tomorrow is my last day alone with the boy. I am very anxious. Chris is doing great with the boy, but he is still eating only milk, so I hope he won’t mind me being away for a large part of the day. I will be home for lunch, but that’s it until the afternoon.

I am looking forward to having larger chunks of time to work on Thesis. I had trouble just piecing an hour here, an hour there. I hope the work goes well. I have an exciting project lined up with I get back. I am so tired now and it is not even 10PM. Yawn and good night!

A friend from my literature club sont me this link. There is a summer reading list of Canadian lit. I’ve read Oryx and Crake and might have read Neuromancer. Some books on this list I have heard about, some I have been thinking about reading, but most are new to me.

Another thing I will not have time to do is write a post with title of each movie I’ve seen this summer. I’ve used free babysitting liberally while on vacation and saw tons of films:
Mr Bean goes on Holiday
A Boy Girl Thing
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Shrek 3

And now I will try and get Eclipse working on my PC, and catch up on banking. And call my mother to tell her that there is a message for her on my answering machine. And make supper. And catch up on sleep. And play on the Internet.

I am so happy. I am on vacation so I have tons of family and friends playing with the baby. This is good for both him and me. I have been getting a lot of reading done. Not only that, but I’ve read three good books in a row. I’ve read Orwell’s Burmese Days before leaving and thought it was great. I’ve since read Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam. I was interested in this book since it got the Giller Prize last year, but I knew I was not going to have time to read it. I went the lazy way and sent it to my med school sister so she could read it for me. She liked it and lent it back to me as summer reading. I do hope they make a television series out of it. There is some character development in the first few chapters, but afterwards it is just stories.And, there is never enough hospital dramas. I wish I could say the same thing about engineering – Dilbert was never compelling.

I just started reading Speaking with the Angel collection of short stories. I’ve only read two so far, but Nick Hornby’s NippleJesus is fantastic! I would recommend it to anyone who has an opinion about art galleries.

I’ve had such a good reading streak, I’m afraid of picking up anything else for the fear of it being a dud. I’ll just concentrate on my Master’s thesis now, it’s a safe bet.