Things

Yesterday I finished reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. It was okay. I mean, there some good things in there and some parts with really good writing and the chaotic sort-of structure can really work at times, but it can also be a bit overblown. And then the treatment of race can be REALLY rough-going (I mean, it's not racist in a hostile sense, but racist in an of-the-times casual, passive sense and there's some things that just keep coming up sprinkled throughout that push it just beyond "didn't age well"). Also, it's probably over-long and self-involved even for autobiographical fiction. Anyway, I did make it back to the ups store, going early and taking a little jump away from work in the early afternoon. I get there and there's a line, but it's pretty short, only like two people waiting. But then a minute later a woman comes in and asks if she can leave a package on the counter (they never have a designated place for it, just on a corner of the counter) and so she does and then I follow suit as our package is all ready-to-go. So it ended up being pretty quick. I got a few Creel Pone cds in the mail yesterday: Rune Lindblad: Predestination, Anne Southam/Sean o Huigin: Sky-Sails, John Van Rymenant: Memory Stop/Scan Lines, Hero Wouters: Fiction soundtrack, Michel Longtin: La Trilogie de la Montagne, and Steve Birchall: Reality Gates. After work Mary Beth and I did our Fresh Market grocery run. Then at night we watched Dr. Strangelove which is always a great treat. Then before bed I got a little ill but am feeling better now.