Well, it's the first of the month, the start of our last here in Statesboro. Julia is hard at work on her dissertation, her goal being to defend it in November, and be Dr. Fischer by Christmas.
Gabriel is off summer school this week. Next week is his last week.
It'll be a month of waiting and packing, selling off some of the furniture we're not taking with us.
Daisy? Well, she's still in Cincinnati, having a blast. We'll have her back in less than two weeks.
What else? Well, the new Entertainment Weekly is something I need to pick up. It's their 10 Best of Everything list: greatest movies, plays, books, music, TV shows, musicals, etc. of all time.
Tonight, Julia and I will watch The Words again, that fine literary mystery with Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana that came out last fall.
We have been watching the sixth season of Mad Men together and enjoying it. Don is still being a cad, making a mockery of his marriage to nice Megan Draper, and there have been interesting storylines about Pete's up-to-his-eyeballs frustration with his addle-brained mother, the ego-laden tension between Don and his new partners, etc. Nothing will ever top the first couple of seasons of Mad Men but the show is consistently excellent.
The final season of Dexter started last night on Showtime. When we move, we'll make sure we get Showtime, so that we are able to catch the show mid-season and catch up on what we missed.
The Heat ruled the box office this weekend. No surprise there - Sandra Bullock and, yes, Melissa McCarthy are B.O. gold.
Having (finally) finished Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy this morning, I started searching Goodreads for a good list of long books I want to tackle sometime in the near future. Here's what I came up with :
- Hawaii (James Michener)
- Shogun (James Clavell)
- Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - John Jakes' North and South trilogy
- Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
- Whistle (James Jones)
- Sarum (Edward Rutherford)
- As the Crow Flies (Jeffrey Archer)
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