SPRING BREAK PARTAY = reading

Rebecca Taylor top, thrifted

Calvin Klein jeans, Ross

scarf, Old Navy

   
       Spring Break has been glorious so far. Admittedly, I had a hard time waking up for early-morning aikido yesterday - I bolted out of bed at 5:24 a.m. when I should have woken up a good ten or twenty minutes earlier. Later in the day, my sweet cousin dropped by with a delicious Greek lunch. I don't usually like fries - but fries liberally coated with garlic and accompanied by a feta dip? Let's just say I ate my share. And then I devoured my gyro, too.
      So, that kind of sums up my spring break so far. Lots of reading and eating, and a little creating - I made a few stretch bracelets with my long-neglected seed bead collection. One unexpected quirk in the plan was that my computer charger decided to stop working. As much as I enjoy having an iPhone, it's not great for  obsessively searching artbeads.com for MOAR pretty sparkly beads browsing the Internet. Also, there's all that fourth-quarter lesson planning that I could be doing, and the third-quarter grading that really needs doing, but will likely be ignored for a few more days ...  In short, I prevailed on my husband to search the island for a charger, and he found one.  I think he's a keeper. ; )

        This color combination is one of my recent favorites. I like the mix of light and dark purples with the deep green/teal.
        Obligatory outfit talk: check. Now let's talk about books ...
         Books I've read: I finished "Marbury Lens" by Andrew Smith, and it was one of the more disturbing books I've read. (I have to note that I'm a wimp and don't read horror, so this may be kid stuff to lovers of that genre). As a book lover, I've realized that while some books are excellent and well-done, they're not books I'd want to read again. I enjoyed them, but they're not necessarily worlds I want to revisit. This is an apt description of "Marbury Lens." At the same time, I had a hard time putting the book down. The moving-between-two-worlds narrative is rather addictive, kind of like how the main character Jack feels an irresistible compulsion to put on the glasses that transport him to the brutal world of Marbury. It turns out that there's a second book called "Passenger," and I'm mulling whether I want to read that. 
        Books I'm working on: "Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind" by Suzuki and "The Underneath" by Appelt.
         Books I hope to get to before spring break ends: the graphic novel "Relish: My Life in the Kitchen" by Knisley; "Lexicon" by Barry; and "Saving Shiloh" by Naylor. (I plan to use "Shiloh" with some of my students, and I just had to reread the trilogy.)     
         Have you read anything interesting lately?