When Knitting Was a Manly Art

I sat down last night and tried to figure my book reading list for the past six months.

A lot of food related reading (no surprise), a few biographies, a few mindless novels and a bit of weird stuff.

Food:
A couple of John Thorne books of essays:
Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots
Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite Currently reading

A couple Michael Pollan books:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions

Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food

Biographies:
Mark Twain: A Life

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

Into the Wild

Truman Currently reading

Mindless Novels:
Four or Five Terry Pratchett Discworld novels

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods: A Novel

Weird Stuff:
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?

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Nearly three months since my last post, the day after Thanksgiving and I feel an urge to type…

So… What’s going on?

I’d love to say that things are going along swimmingly, but I really can’t. Too much work, too little money, not really happy with the direction of my life right now.

Haven’t knitted a stitch since my last post, but doing a lot of reading and just trying to keep my mind busy in my limited free time. Work has become more than I expected when I started. What I expected to be just part-time has expanded to nearly full-time with the addition of being promoted to shift supervisor. Now when customers have complaints, I get to go out front for an earful.

Still riding a roller coaster as far as depression is concerned. Good days and bad days, though the bad days don’t seem so often and *usually* not so low. Today is a good one. Nice dinner yesterday afternoon with friends and work tonight, though it’s probably going to be a dead evening.

Picture — Blossoms on my Hindu Rope Hoya

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