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Yesterday was not much different from the day before. I walked to work, I walked home, I made chai, Shobhit and I had pasta for dinner and then we watched season two of
The Sandman on Netflix. The only difference is that on Monday we watched three episodes and last night we watched four. We basically spent that hour difference making dinner Monday night; there was no dinner prep last night because we still had leftovers.
Exciting stuff, isn't it!
I suppose I could tell you that I have now used, and really love, the "
Your Next Five Books" feature at the Seattle Public Library website. Elizabeth, the donations coordinator who calls me every year about my annual donation to the Seattle Public Library Foundation, told me about it. She noted that you fill out this form, mention recent books you've read and/or what you are interested in, and a real-life, actual librarian (none of this is automated) researches for you and comes back with a list of five books for you to read.
Even though I already have a ton of books on hold at the library, I still wanted to try out this service. I filled out the form on Wednesday and had an email response by Monday—a five-day turnaround. I provided a lot for them to work with: I've recently been really into science fiction, especially of the sort that is either written so long ago that its vision is basically of our current time, or that examines gender norms or has a queer element; I also have an affinity for satire and novels with insights about the entertainment industry (and both at once is a plus); I also provided my Goodreads profile link, which is one of the options in the online form.
The recommendations I got were all novels and writers I had never heard of, although Laney had heard of and read the 1968 novel
Stand on Zanzibar which is apparently set in 2010. I have now placed holds on all five of the recommendations, and am genuinely excited about four of them.
I also spent some time this morning creating an Excel spreadsheet of all the items I have on hold at the library, and sorting them by priority. There are 31 items on the list now—28 books and three DVDs. Among the books, my highest-priority from this "Your Next Five Books" list is ranked fourth.
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I'm starting to feel only slightly overwhelmed at work this week, what with all I need to get done before taking next week off. I'm way ahead one major thing, behind on another, which I keep being unable to get to because of the stunning number of late January promo contract submission requests I keep getting from multiple brokers. Get your shit together, people! Do people not know how deadlines actually work or what?
It's not helping that I'm leaving about an hour and a half early today. Shobhit's meeting me here at the office and will walk with me over to Virginia Mason Medical Center, where I'm getting this annoying epidermnoid cyst removed from my back. I keep wondering if I'll have basically a small hole in my back for a while or what. Even if I do, I'll be glad to be rid of it. I don't think a single thing that has ever happened to me has made me feel more old than this.
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[posted 12:33pm]
