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Jul. 1st, 2004 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ktroni hate filling out job applications, i do. so repetitive. other than that and the severe lack of cash flow, i could get used to the unemployed lifestyle. lots of time for things like joining historical societies, keeping up with the news, getting to karate classes on time, playing in the garden, and reading books...
speaking of reading, anybody hear anything much yet on bill clinton's autobiography? shafi tells me that it has the chris berry seal of approval, an impressive distinction indeed, but i'm not sure that anyone who reads more slowly than chris (=approx. 99.9% of the population) has gotten through it yet. it's a bit of a hefty investment for the unemployed liberal arts enthusiast, and the back cover makes me laugh, but current anti-g.o.p. zeal still makes me want to read it if it's really worth the time.
i thought about buying it last night, but dave was buying the motorcycle diaries, which required an on-the-fly nefarious plan to swipe it and read while dave finishes anna karenina. (he's horrified to have the "oprah's book club" edition of anna k., but he's got a crush on the translators... he read their version of crime and punishment and loved it.)
i really, really just need to unpack all the books i already own and haven't read... maybe then i'd remember what a sprawling mess they can get to be and quit drooling over new arrivals at the bookstore...
speaking of reading, anybody hear anything much yet on bill clinton's autobiography? shafi tells me that it has the chris berry seal of approval, an impressive distinction indeed, but i'm not sure that anyone who reads more slowly than chris (=approx. 99.9% of the population) has gotten through it yet. it's a bit of a hefty investment for the unemployed liberal arts enthusiast, and the back cover makes me laugh, but current anti-g.o.p. zeal still makes me want to read it if it's really worth the time.
i thought about buying it last night, but dave was buying the motorcycle diaries, which required an on-the-fly nefarious plan to swipe it and read while dave finishes anna karenina. (he's horrified to have the "oprah's book club" edition of anna k., but he's got a crush on the translators... he read their version of crime and punishment and loved it.)
i really, really just need to unpack all the books i already own and haven't read... maybe then i'd remember what a sprawling mess they can get to be and quit drooling over new arrivals at the bookstore...
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job apps and books
Date: 2004-07-01 12:52 pm (UTC)i picked up "against all enemies" and "the price of loyalty" at mckays over a month ago, so i've got stuff to occupy myself with between now and when (if) i can get my hands on "the war on freedom" from the UT library.
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:10 pm (UTC)-shafi