Eventful week

petronia was down from Montreal and I had dinner in NYC three times, spending THIRTY HOURS' PAY BEFORE TAXES on food and transportation. (Pay at the library, that is. I am making more now at Pearson, thank God.) New York City is so expensive: there's "sticker shock," and then there's "if I actually had to pay my own bills, it would be another four months before I could afford another week like this". Hooray for living at home?

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Overall: Ate a lot, spent a lot, drank a lot, fought off feeling like an extremely boring person -- boring not in the sense of "never does anything exciting" (though that's true as well), but in the sense of "doesn't have strong opinions or well-defined tastes". Rationalized that there's no competing with Sabina on this front. ^^; Also, everyone else was older -- 25, 26, 27, 28. If I still have nothing of interest to say at 30, then I'll start worrying. (Although I have worked in a LIBRARY and now work with TEXTBOOKS -- maybe I SHOULD be worrying.) Topics of the day were music fandom and younger siblings in precarious positions: I am a good person with whom to discuss the later, but a terrible person with whom to discuss the former.

In between, hung out with falxumbra and fiendery, started work, wrote (!!) a few pages (orz), finished three books, watched Juno and parts of three other movies, and worked out a deal to stay a few nights a week with a best friend from kindergarten happens to live near Paramus. My brother was home from school this week as well.

Books:
Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, Bay of Naples and Southern Italy
Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
Thant Myint-U, The River of Lost Footsteps <-- currently reading