Potatoes in the Mist

Zoe woke me up at 4 am to ask if she could watch videos in the living room. So I'm tired. Iced coffee helps.

The piano player upstairs seems to be gone. Hopefully he or she is just on vacation.

The maps dreamt on like moondust. Nothing stirred. The future was a verb in hibernation. -Seamus Heaney

Zoe just ordered French fries from a sushi place.

I got really involved in the 2016 election. This one, I'm not. I like Amy Klobuchar the best. But I'll vote for any Democrat running against Trump. It's that simple.

I just had chocolate covered strawberries. The kids learned how to make them at camp. You melt some chocolate chips in the microwave, then stir and dip the strawberries in.

My babies are back. I’m so happy. (They were in the Poconos over the weekend.)

I'm reading Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand. I love it. It's about 3 sisters, one in Martha's Vineyard, one in Nantucket, and one in Boston (although she has just gone to Nantucket). Their brother is off fighting in Vietnam. It's not depressing though. She's really good at writing juicy beach books.

I finished City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. It got mixed reviews, but I really liked it. Apparently Gilbert read a lot of Dickens when she was young, and it shows.

For some reason I'm still getting pimples (age 43). Most of them are docile and fade away, but one of them really has staying power. They don't even make Oxy-10 anymore, so I bought the Neutrogena equivalent and slathered it on. Hopefully that will nuke the thing.

I like the piano music upstairs. It’s so peaceful and just washes over me.

Hawaii is so relaxing. I don’t want to leave.

Now Beto is in play. It’s definitely a very full ticket.

There's a piano upstairs that plays music almost every night. I really like it. I kind of wish I played piano instead of clarinet as a child.

Alexander McCall Smith has started a new series, about a Swedish detective. The full-length book isn’t out yet, but a Kindle single is. It seems pretty good. And I won a Susan Mallery book (also not out yet) in a Goodreads giveaway.

So I'm applying to library school. It will take 18 months, starting in October. I felt weird contacting professors from 20 years ago for recommendations. They did write recommendations for me before, back in 2000, for law school. So hopefully they will remember me and be willing to write again. I mentioned what classes I took with them and when, and my honors thesis (one of them was my thesis advisor). So I'm slightly anxious about that (but who knows, maybe they still have the old recommendations on file) and I have to write a personal statement (500 words, and my notes are 154 words). But these are all surmountable problems. I'm mostly excited - a job I won't hate! P.S. Both professors got back to me on the same day. So I was worried about nothing.

I’m not sure how I feel about Bernie running again. I want Amy Klobuchar to win. (As a fun aside, she follows me on Twitter.)

I finished I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella and now I have nothing good to read :(

The food at thanksgiving was really good. My sister brought puff pastry tarts with Brie and jam. I also had root vegetables and potato salad (vinaigrette dressing instead of mayonnaise).

I’m reading Michelle Obama’s book. Slow start, but now it’s engaging.