My mom and I are leaving for Maine tomorrow. We're taking a rental car as my mom's is still at the repair shop after being caught in a parking lot flood and mine isn't sturdy enough for long-distance road trips. There's a large ball of anxiety and excitement in the pit of my stomach. This is my second time off this year, the first being for my paternal grandmother's funeral. (It's so hard to think that was almost six months ago, and yet I still feel like I haven't processed it.)
I have missed people dearly, and sometimes feel guilty for getting caught up in my own things and not spending enough time as I would like, or reaching out as much as I think I should, with family and friends. Also hard to believe that it's been a year since I temporarily lived with my maternal grandmother.
My schedule is a bit full. My aunt's only free Wednesday and Friday, I'll be seeing Shampoo [for the first time in two years!] Tuesday or Thursday (likely Thursday), and Kun - also for the first time in a year - on Saturday on our way back to New York. I go back to work Sunday.
My library books are eclectic, and I don't anticipate having much time to read besides when I'm not driving or before bed, which is when I normally read. I've three books I'm two-thirds through and hope to finish soon: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie (which is fantastic and hard to put down while being straightforward on not believing the divine origins of Joseph's mission), The Tarot : History, Symbolism, and Divination by Robert Place (which started off interesting but I'm rather bored with it now due to lots of repetition), and S.E.X.: the all-you-need-to-know progressive sexuality guide to get you through high school and college by Heather Corinna (useful knowledge and a good refresher, especially as my sexual education was largely abstinence or scare tactic, or - okay - terribly inaccurate fanfic, oriented).
My three new books are After School Nightmare volume 2 by Mizushiro Setona (a manga that talks about gender identity and psychological trauma), Agnosticism: a very short introduction by Robin Le Poidevin, and The computer: a very short introduction by Darrel Ince. The Very Short Introduction series is published by Oxford University Press and is a series of short (usually 100-150 page) books written by scholars or other experts for a general audience. There are a number of topics covered in the series, from specific religions and philosophers, to modern science and health, to literature and cultural movements. Just looking at the list of titles, the series seems very Western-centric, which I suppose isn't unexpected but still a bit of a shame.
One book I don't have yet, but look forward to reading soon, is A Prince of Our Disorder: the Life of T. E. Lawrence by John Mack.
I have missed people dearly, and sometimes feel guilty for getting caught up in my own things and not spending enough time as I would like, or reaching out as much as I think I should, with family and friends. Also hard to believe that it's been a year since I temporarily lived with my maternal grandmother.
My schedule is a bit full. My aunt's only free Wednesday and Friday, I'll be seeing Shampoo [for the first time in two years!] Tuesday or Thursday (likely Thursday), and Kun - also for the first time in a year - on Saturday on our way back to New York. I go back to work Sunday.
My library books are eclectic, and I don't anticipate having much time to read besides when I'm not driving or before bed, which is when I normally read. I've three books I'm two-thirds through and hope to finish soon: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie (which is fantastic and hard to put down while being straightforward on not believing the divine origins of Joseph's mission), The Tarot : History, Symbolism, and Divination by Robert Place (which started off interesting but I'm rather bored with it now due to lots of repetition), and S.E.X.: the all-you-need-to-know progressive sexuality guide to get you through high school and college by Heather Corinna (useful knowledge and a good refresher, especially as my sexual education was largely abstinence or scare tactic, or - okay - terribly inaccurate fanfic, oriented).
My three new books are After School Nightmare volume 2 by Mizushiro Setona (a manga that talks about gender identity and psychological trauma), Agnosticism: a very short introduction by Robin Le Poidevin, and The computer: a very short introduction by Darrel Ince. The Very Short Introduction series is published by Oxford University Press and is a series of short (usually 100-150 page) books written by scholars or other experts for a general audience. There are a number of topics covered in the series, from specific religions and philosophers, to modern science and health, to literature and cultural movements. Just looking at the list of titles, the series seems very Western-centric, which I suppose isn't unexpected but still a bit of a shame.
One book I don't have yet, but look forward to reading soon, is A Prince of Our Disorder: the Life of T. E. Lawrence by John Mack.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}