Andrew's Day Off: 209PM

Food was good, and I'm back in my hooch to do some sitting and perhaps a little light reading. I just got a package in the mail from my parents, so I am now the proud owner of two (count 'em, two!) toiletries kits. For the past 2+ months (since the morning where I left my old kit in the shower trailer) I've been getting by with large ziploc bags. And don't get me wrong, those bags worked really well. TK's tend to get gross with repeated use, but when one of the ziplocs got a bit too scuzzy I could just replace it with another one. All the same, though, it's nice to have real, actual kits.

My mom also sent me a copy of Gilead, which I look forward to reading. It's relatively short and ever-so-slightly snobby (it's another recent Pulitzer winner) which is exactly what I go for in books while I'm out here. I've been chugging through Gravity's Rainbow lately (a book that's neither short nor "slightly" snobby--it's a full on, 800 page effort of will) so it's nice to have something that will be a bit more easily consumable.

At lunch just now, not wanting to try to concentrate on the talking dogs and oversized slug monsters found in Gravity's Rainbow while eating my chicken nuggets, I read the first 40 pages of "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis. It's really quite good so far (thanks Utgoffs/Spicer!)

The book starts off with a 30+ page retelling of Joe Theisman's famous injury, and while that's a moment I don't really want to relive too often, that's a pretty impressive way to start off a book in my opinion...

OK, on to my light reading--I'll see everyone in a bit.