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mostly bookish

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:08:20 GMT

Usually, when I have a free Sunday morning, I try to get up reasonably early (~7:30) and go to Mysore. But this weekend I practiced the yoga pose of sleep. I was out latish Sat. night at a work-related dinner, and then up even later finishing my purimgifts fic, and so didn’t go to sleep until 1:30. I woke up at 7:30 or so, and thought screw this. And I didn’t wake up again until 10:30. Can’t remember the last time I did that. It might have been in high school.

Anyway, 28 hours of freedom is not so much when you spend 9 sleeping and 4 at a work dinner, so I hardly caught up at all on TV. I did watch, out of curiosity, the House episode in which Jeremy Renner plays a dissolute rock singer. And enjoyed it very much—I forgot how much I like S4 House and I don’t think I’d seen that one before.

Nor did I realize that this image, that you see all the time on the interwebz, if from House of all things!

Also Grimm
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Have two book recs, though (both about doctors, as it turns out).

My Own Country, by Abraham Verghese.

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State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
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Even though I'm going to be out of town from basically March 23rd to April 1, I signed up for remix again. Possibly stupidly.

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this isn't a Bourne movie, you know

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:12:21 GMT

I had another free weekend, for ongoing Familial Reasons, and for those same reasons spent a lot of time on Saturday purposefully trying not to think about stuff. You know the drill: run, movie, TV—though I did manage to have a dinner with a friend this time.

Luckily, A Dangerous Method was still playing in town. And you know, I have to say that, despite the fact that

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( Ann Patchett's State of Wonder )

It does however, often make me think of this:

I watched a couple of episodes of The Unusuals because there it is, on Netflix, and giggled over the fact that one of Jeremy Renner’s very first lines is, “This isn’t a Bourne movie, you know.”

ETA: I love the South, you know I love the South. What I don’t love? The boys’ school being delayed two hours on the strength of an eighth of an inch of snow that only stuck to the freaking grass.

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drive by link

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:51:39 GMT

for all you past, present or future grad students out there--and those who love them :)

Does it help to know that the guy is now researching a malaria vaccine?

The good thing about a couple of days of 102 degree weather? When a few drops of rain bring the temperature down to 92, it feels positively autumnal.

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Bingo!

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:36:13 GMT

Hey--I've completed my first fanfic bingo card ever! For hc_bingo --though apparently someone forgot to tell me it wasn't fever_dream_bingo, 'cause I seem to be kinda a one-trick pony like that *facepalm*

List of fills below the cut:
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