Just a few random miscellaneous things today, because I'm feeling tired and lazy, and I'd rather be reading (preferably in front of a sunny window like the girl above) than sitting in front of the computer.
- I'm tired of the cold and tired of always feeling cold.
- It could be worse as at least we don't have any snow at the moment. (Knock on wood--I probably just jinxed myself).
- I'm thankful for my hot water bottle (it's turned out to be a most excellent investment). Nothing like tucking my feet under it at night. My feet are like two blocks of ice, and when your feet are cold it seems impossible to warm up.
- Do you think the cold makes you hungrier? Of late I feel like I am subsisting on hot tea, hot cocoa and hot coffee. Sometimes all three over the course of a day. I feel a little gluttonous.
- I have discovered Hot Hands, however. These are pretty nifty and I tried them on my subzero walk to work yesterday and they kept my fingers toasty warm. I left them in my mittens all day, which were in my locker at work and even after going to the gym after work they still were a little warm, so I was able to use them on my walk home again.
- Over the weekend I watched, almost in one big gulp, the Canadian show Bomb Girls. I've thoroughly enjoyed season one. When is season two coming out? And will there be a season three? Thank you to whoever recommended it to me.
- I couldn't find Bomb Girls locally, so I requested it via ILL (have I mentioned lately how much I love and rely on Interlibrary loan? Aren't libraries wonderful?). I don't have to return it for several weeks yet, so I will have another watching binge next weekend.
- Also over the weekend I went to see the Martha Graham Dance Company. The production was excellent. Martha Graham is one of those people who has hovered on the periphery for me. I thought I knew something about her, but I don't think I have ever seen any modern dance performances before.
- Now I am going to watch the Criterion Collection's Martha Graham Dance on Film. My library owns it, but it is currently checked out.
- You can see Martha Graham perform Appalachian Spring here. Very cool. It was the main piece of the performance, though there was a "work in progress" piece at the very end of the program which was really amazing and I wish I could see it again.
- Now I must read something about Martha Graham. You know how that goes, right?
- It's pretty cool to think about modern literature and modern art and now add modern dance to the equation and think about how it all fits together.
- Since the dance performance was on Sunday night I missed Downton Abbey.
- Thank goodness for streaming media.
- Monday I was looking for a book in my book room (which is a complete disorganized mess I am sorry to say) and it was literally in the last place it could be. Now I know when you find something you have been looking for it is going to be in the last place you would look, but I was on my last bin/last shelf, back row . . . so everything had to be shifted. Piles fell. Books were scattered. It was even a bigger mess. What I thought would take five minutes ended up taking about 45. I ended up finding the book, and about six other books I wasn't even looking for.
- This is why I have avoided organizing my books. It becomes a huge time suck. Not that looking at books you haven't looked at in months or years is a bad thing, but I always think I could have spent that hour reading!
- I am having this overwhelming desire to read a novel by Dorothy Whipple. Does that ever happen to you? Not read a novel by Dorothy Whipple in particular, just read someone who comes to mind all of a sudden. If I picked up my copy of The Priory I could add it to the 1939 slot of my Century of Books.
- Yes, I am still contemplating what book to pick up so I can add it to my list. This might be dangerous.
- I sometimes feel like I spend more time (or at least as much as) thinking about reading than actually reading. This isn't true, of course, but books always seem to be on my mind. You, too?
- Now, if you'll excuse me, I am off to make a cup of cocoa, fill my water bottle and tuck into a good book.