2006-03-27
Despite the fact that I have much reading to do, and mid-term studying, and the like, it is interesting to note I was going to try to reflect on every book I read this 2006. Here, then, is the rub: While in Florida, I read I'm not the new me, by Wendy McClure (which reminds me, I wanted to google her). It was delightful reading, not too taxing on the ol' braincells, (unlike, say reading Lolita in Tehran, which is great but work! Literature!And still in my TO FINISH READING pile) and delightful. I got home and finished the Maureen Dowd book, Are Men Necessary?, which revealed some new, enlightening information to me about Monica Lewinsky, but didn't do much else for me. Monica was a conniving lass. She tried to leverage the booty call for a political position, which I find alternately skeevy and wonderful. What a nut. The book was not what I would call deep reading, but it was mildly amusing. Now I am reading Kitchen Confidential, which documents the life of a chef, sex beside the dumpster and all. I sort of love it. Not that I should be reading recreationally. What I should be doing is trying to reach a greater understanding of the MARC record. And learning how I personally define Information Science, because my mid-term is on Thursday.
Further, the lady who came to sit in and write a newspaper article on my memoir writing class with seniors called with a few follow-up questions and asked me if my class had discussed the James Frey controversy. I can't recall if I read that in 2006, or if I finished that in 2005, but I did not discuss it with my seniors. I don't see how they'd have patience for the noodling, swearing, self-important rich kid who got in trouble for making his memoir of addiction more sensational. I sort of said that to the journalist. But not in so many words. When I made them read an excerpt from a Geoffrey Woolf's memoir that involved a swear, you would have thought I was encouraging them to accept Satan. They skipped right over the offensive word. I should stop now. And get on the information science train. Until later.