My Facebook status update last night was, “For the fifth night in a row, I am getting too little sleep. SUCK IT NEUROGENESIS.” and that goes double for tonight. I work at a hospital, and we’ve lost the person who was doing our FMLA/disability paperwork, so while they hire for that position, I am doing my four doctors’ stuff in addition to my own work. I’m getting really efficient at it. On the minus side, that means lots of overtime and therefore less sleep, less writing time and less time spent improving my mind or, let’s be honest, watching Being Erica; on the plus side, extra money and I can listen to Girl Talk after hours if I close my door.
But I’ve been doing a lot of reading in my off time, of:
- John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, although my copy is called Let Me In, which makes me kind of sad because it’s not a very distinctive title and I don’t speak Swedish but Låt den rätte komma in is obviously closer to Let the Right One In than Let Me In, although I wonder if there’s a pun about rats there too.
- Some more American Lit List stuff. Alan also let me use four of his Audible credits, so I got Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Edward P. Jones’ The Known World and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, which will allow me to finally start on the online audio Yale course, “The American Novel Since 1945,” which I plan to do on my commute. It’s only like 2.6 days worth of audio when you include the books I haven’t already read, no big deal, right?
- “Lily,” a short story by Emily Gilman.
- The short stories at The December Lights Project. My favourite so far is “Queen of the Kitchen” by Karen Healey, but they’re all good, and they’re updating weekdaily.
- The food blogs that “Queen of the Kitchen” inspired me to start reading again (or for the first time) including my brilliant pastry chef friend Courtney’s Bipolar Baking, Cheap Healthy Good, Very Serious member Edana’s Yum Food and one she recommended called Closet Cooking, and Kath Eats Real Food, which my friend Waye had linked to and where I found out about overnight oatmeal, which I have eaten every day this week (made with just milk, though, because I think yogurt is kind of vile) and which is filling and delicious. I am looking forward to trying her banana oatmeal brûlée, maybe this weekend if I have any wherewithal left.
