I decided to post it just to get the ball rolling...
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I've had an interesting couple days today and yesterday. Yesterday was interestng for several reasons. First I was just finishing up this book, A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry, that I began back in January but hadn't had a chance to finish due to school. I picked it up from the library last week and have been reading it.
It's about these four people that end up living together in India during a government 'emergency' in the 1970's. They're all very different and it paints vivid pictures of their lives. It gets very interesting and gripping near the end. You get excited and have so many hopes for the characters. However the end is very depressing, the author mutilates three of the characters in shocking detail by the end. It's very sad and very shocking.. difficult to process emotionally.. All I can think of is the line in the delirious song,
India you're too hurt to cry
Oprah had this book on her book club, maybe I will try to read through her reviews and discussion of it and see what she had to say.
Between this book and making a mad (and it turned out failed, someone had already borrowed it)dash to the library to try and retrieve the newest Harry Potter book. I also went to the optometrist. Ask anyone with a -10 perscription (we won't even broach the topic of retinal detachment ok ?!) going to the optometrist is rather depressing.. because you're used to always getting bad news ie "your myopia is getting worse, you need stronger lenses." Well one of my eyes is worse.. but I kind of knew that since this is the eye that I had the retinal detachment in.. but the big news is that I am getting hard contacts. I had been toying with the idea for a long time but yesterday the optometrist actually agreed to it and I told her to order them.
Yesterday I also told a whole bunch of people at work that I am moving to BC.. a little scary because the thought occurs to me, what if there is a snag and I don't move, that will be soo embarassing!
Today the drama continues.. I am set to visit the endocrinologist at 2pm. It's a 'big' day because I had to wait 8 months for this appt though to be honest I don't think she is going to tell me anything new. I think I am doing pretty well on my own with metformin and my low carb diet if I may say so ;)
About the fifth thing that happened yesterday was that I called up another Starbucks store to get shifts and who answers but the same manager who was training at our store last month. I said I'm looking for hours and he was like "I can give you 40 hours a week!" Great right ? err no. It was rather unnerving since this guy was pretty much hitting on me the whole time he was at our store AND he has a wife *rolls eyes* *sigh*
It's about these four people that end up living together in India during a government 'emergency' in the 1970's. They're all very different and it paints vivid pictures of their lives. It gets very interesting and gripping near the end. You get excited and have so many hopes for the characters. However the end is very depressing, the author mutilates three of the characters in shocking detail by the end. It's very sad and very shocking.. difficult to process emotionally.. All I can think of is the line in the delirious song,
India you're too hurt to cry
Oprah had this book on her book club, maybe I will try to read through her reviews and discussion of it and see what she had to say.
Between this book and making a mad (and it turned out failed, someone had already borrowed it)dash to the library to try and retrieve the newest Harry Potter book. I also went to the optometrist. Ask anyone with a -10 perscription (we won't even broach the topic of retinal detachment ok ?!) going to the optometrist is rather depressing.. because you're used to always getting bad news ie "your myopia is getting worse, you need stronger lenses." Well one of my eyes is worse.. but I kind of knew that since this is the eye that I had the retinal detachment in.. but the big news is that I am getting hard contacts. I had been toying with the idea for a long time but yesterday the optometrist actually agreed to it and I told her to order them.
Yesterday I also told a whole bunch of people at work that I am moving to BC.. a little scary because the thought occurs to me, what if there is a snag and I don't move, that will be soo embarassing!
Today the drama continues.. I am set to visit the endocrinologist at 2pm. It's a 'big' day because I had to wait 8 months for this appt though to be honest I don't think she is going to tell me anything new. I think I am doing pretty well on my own with metformin and my low carb diet if I may say so ;)
About the fifth thing that happened yesterday was that I called up another Starbucks store to get shifts and who answers but the same manager who was training at our store last month. I said I'm looking for hours and he was like "I can give you 40 hours a week!" Great right ? err no. It was rather unnerving since this guy was pretty much hitting on me the whole time he was at our store AND he has a wife *rolls eyes* *sigh*
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