Fun Iran?

OK, so about three capfuls of snow melted this week.

When this winter ends I'll get naked in the sun!

Well, maybe not. But I'll go for some sunny-soaking walks with my kid and maybe even the H-dot if I can wheedle him into it.

I read The Burma Chronicles.

Interesting, but lacking any kind of urgency. I mean, I know memoirs don't have any kind of plot necessarily. But some of the little stories are ridiculously mundane. 

And exoticism : hmm? Any thoughts?

Against my desire to not buy more stuff not necessary to living, eating, breathing, I bought:

-2 Azar Nafisi books

-both persepolis books

I don't even have time to read them.  Which means I'll read them and feel guilty about it.

I'm supposed to be reading about the history of environmentalism in BC. And about mean cracker settlers in northern BC. (I chose that adjective carefully : some settlers were better than others, but they all stole land and contributed to starving, jailing and decimating First Nations populations).

Iran seems funner to read about. 

is thanking you and is a tad overwhelmed

Thanks for all the love and phone calls.

Having friends I can call and ask for love and help in tough times makes tough times liveable.

Really, I wasn't doing as well as I'd hoped I would in there.

Hospitals can be icky. And seeing my baby scared and unhappy was terrifying.

We are still shaken ffrom it.

Actually, I'm more anxious and sad. I can't shake the sadness. I need winter to end.

Pettmans : look carefulllllly into your mailbox this coming week! 

I'm IN for the reading club.

Persepolis will be good because it has pictures.

Other than what I read for work and school, I only read very short  books right now. Or books with pictures. 

I'm studying for exams until March. After that, I'll have passed or failed my exams.

Either way, I'm taking a month break from reading anything without pictures in April.

Sometimes I narrate my life as if it were a series of Facebook statuses. (statii?)

Like this:

-is yearning for lost youth.

-is unseemly and tired.

- is nervous about teaching First Nations literature.

-cannot figure out whether "aboriginal" or "First Nations" is more appropriate.

- feels guilty.

- shuns her guilt.

- embraces her guilt.

- wants chocolate.

- has taken too many ibuprofen to digest properly.

- wants to sleep for a month.

- wants her youthful complexion back.

- is nostalgic, which she finds pathetic.

- does not know how she would survive without the geographically scattered and loving and reliable good friends she has.

xoxo

nb