A Post About Nothing

Countdown until I leave New York: 62 days

I have absolutely nothing exciting to reveal in this post. This weekend was delightfully lazy; I made black-bean soup and finished Jane Eyre. I also watched infomercials and paid my bills. I also found out that I have a library fine from Hillsdale that I haven’t paid yet and I can’t get my transcripts to Mexico until that is taken care of. I also slept. A lot. Oh! And I also discovered carrot juice and it’s AMAZING. Katie, I don’t know how you dislike it…it’s my new favorite thing.

Today I am going to the gym. I feel much too fat. This weekend I made a little workout schedule and a grocery list that should help get me to my pre-winter hibernation weight. I also have to start training because my mom and I are running a 10K either this summer or in December. Either way I need to get my butt in gear.

And that really is it. It’s pretty boring around here actually. It will really get interesting at the end of April when I have to tell my roommate and my boss that I’m leaving in May. Pray for me, kiddos.

Another one of these...

1) What author do you own the most books by?
In my apartment right now, I'm very ashamed to say this...but Stephanie Meyer! AHHH! What have I become! But if you count my books in Florida--either C.S. Lewis or Shakespeare.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The MPA's Magazine Marketing book...I own three copies. It's a long story.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Very much.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
This is VERY difficult. I guess if I had to pick ONE: Mr. Darcey from Pride and Prejudice.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Anna Karenina. I LOVED that book when I was 16ish and I kept reading it over and over.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Hmmm...probably something by George McDonald. I loved The Princess and the Goblin.

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Badly written: Twilight (all of them)
Worst Plot: Chasing Harry Winston by: Lauren Weisberger

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
What Happened to Anna K? by: Irina Reyn

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Hehehe...Sex in the City
by Candace Bushnell, just because I know most of you wouldn't read it otherwise!

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Probably Phillip Roth.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I think Lolita of Tehran.

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Anything science fiction...

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had the brain fever. Anyone who was in Dr. Smith's English 102 class knows what I mean. It was a little crazy...

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Twilight. So bad...but somehow so addicting?

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
War and Peace. because it was so long and the battle scenes were FOREVER. Or Moby Dick because I HATED it.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Titus Andronicus.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians most definitely.

18) Roth or Updike?
Roth.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare for shizzle.

21) Austen or Eliot?
That's tough. I really like them both. I think Austen wins out though.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read American literature...I'm not very embarrassed because it sort of sucks in general.

23) What is your favorite novel?
I think it's still Anna K.

24) Play?
Hamlet.

25) Poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

26) Essay?
I'm not a big essayist...


27) Short story?
A Haunted House, by: Virginia Woolf

28) Work of nonfiction?
God Grew Tired of Us, by: John Bul Dau

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Either Tennyson or C.S. Lewis

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer...most definitely

31) What is your desert island book?
Something long...

32) And... what are you reading right now?
Jane Eyre, by: Charlotte Bronte

Assorted Vignettes: Muffins, Mexico and the Met

It’s been a while since I’ve updated. I wish I were better at posting every day, but things have been so busy! It’s been a VERY busy few weeks…busy, but good. My stomach has been hurting randomly though and I can’t figure it out. Maybe it’s stress? I feel like I blame everything on that. What will I do when I don’t have it anymore? I’m not going to know what to do with myself.

Today I came into work early because we were having a department meeting and it’s my job to pick up something for breakfast. I chose muffins. But I didn’t eat one because of the aforementioned stomach ailment. They looked yummy too. Boo on my digestive system.

Also, today I was reminded how much I love newspapers. Especially the Journal and their amazing off-the-wall feature they always do on the front page below the fold. The headlines were especially good today like: “In France, Oui to Bailout, Non to Layoffs” and my personal favorite, “On Fly Casting’s Urban Frontier, The Fish Are Big, the Water’s Dirty.” Doesn’t that just confuse you enough to want to read more? So good.


Jess and I also got our first Lincoln School newsletter! The principle attached a small map of the town we’ll be living in and it looks absolutely darling (see the map to the right). After New York, it will be so refreshing to live in a place with cobblestone streets. And they even have sushi and a modern art museum! I’m very excited about the possibilities. On another—but related—note I got a reply back from the US consulate in Guadalajara and they said that the area was fine and no violence was going on apart from the normal amounts of violence that happen in a big city (it’s the second biggest in Mexico). I think after New York (and Brooklyn!), I can handle it.

In other news, last weekend Katie and Laura came up to visit and their company was so fantastic! We packed a lot into the weekend too: the Met, a FANTASTIC vegan restaurant, a performance by the Paul Taylor dance company, church in the Village, sushi, Magnolias cupcakes and a visit to see Dr. Cuneo and his family in Yonkers. I believe a fun time was had by all and I would welcome another visit from those two ANY time!

Well, kiddos, I’m going to finish up reading my paper now. And then I should probably get to work. Blah. Competitves. Yuck.

The Heather Update

My weekend. It was fantastic! I was pleasantly surprised on Friday afternoon when I got a call from Tiffany’s sister Brie asking if I wanted to get coffee. Coffee turned into dinner, which turned into hanging out on Saturday night, which turned into seeing Mary Poppins and getting dinner on Sunday. The bitter cold has finally left for the year (fingers crossed) so the weather was really fantastic as well. Actually I was wearing sandals…so that made it a good weekend all by itself.


My decision. I also just realized I haven’t come out and told you all my decision (although I’m assuming most of you know.) I’m going to Mexico in August! The plan as it stands right now is I’m working in NY until May and then I’m spending June and July in FL. I might fly out to Colorado in July (to see Megan, Erin and Company) and Tiffany might come visit me in FL. I really want to see you all before I leave (I’ll be there a year except for a few weeks in December) so everyone is invited to the beach this summer if you can get down to Orlando!


On another note:

Last weekend I went to see Madama Butterfly at the Met. It was phenomenal. That is one thing I will definitely miss when I don’t live in New York. The performances here (broadway, the new york ballet, the opera, etc) are exquisite. I guess I’ll have to visit!