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Jun. 2nd, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ximenStill no internet. When the technician ran a diagnostic and said, "That's really weird! I've never seen anything that weird!" I knew it was going to be a long wait. If it's not fixed by Friday, just canceling my account and relying on the library for the six weeks I still have here. On the plus side, a new coffee shop opened up about two blocks from my apartment, so on rainy days like today I don't have to go very far.
The cold I caught flying back from China is slowly beginning to lift, which is good. I have a reading list I need to start tackling, but I've been waiting until I'm less congested, and just reading lighter stuff in the meantime. I read Game Change, about the 2008 presidential election, which was pretty interesting, and full of entertaining anecdotes. I do wonder, if Clinton or McCain had won, whether Obama would still be presented as so cool and on top of things, or if the outcome influenced the way all the candidates were presented.
I also read Upton Sinclair's Oil!, which was somewhat disappointing. There was so much Socialist preaching that it squashed a lot of the emotional impact of the story, and the plot was sort of meandering, and the ending was unsatisfying. Oh well.
Also, for those of you who might be interested but haven't heard, my little brother has started college at GA Perimeter! I'm really proud of him-- it's hard to go from being a 9th-grade dropout to taking college classes. Way to go, little brother!
The cold I caught flying back from China is slowly beginning to lift, which is good. I have a reading list I need to start tackling, but I've been waiting until I'm less congested, and just reading lighter stuff in the meantime. I read Game Change, about the 2008 presidential election, which was pretty interesting, and full of entertaining anecdotes. I do wonder, if Clinton or McCain had won, whether Obama would still be presented as so cool and on top of things, or if the outcome influenced the way all the candidates were presented.
I also read Upton Sinclair's Oil!, which was somewhat disappointing. There was so much Socialist preaching that it squashed a lot of the emotional impact of the story, and the plot was sort of meandering, and the ending was unsatisfying. Oh well.
Also, for those of you who might be interested but haven't heard, my little brother has started college at GA Perimeter! I'm really proud of him-- it's hard to go from being a 9th-grade dropout to taking college classes. Way to go, little brother!