meme and short update

[e_clare]

from newredshoes

1. Grab the nearest book. Don't search for something cool. Grab what's actually closest to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own journal along with these instructions.


"Well, Mikhailo Alexandrych, might I have the honor of taking you to the high road in my new troika?"

From the last page of A Month in the Country, by Ivan Turgenev. The first two books I picked up were Stoppard plays, well short of 123 pages. I found the Turgenev at the Takoma Book Exchange, and snatched it up with the hope that it would supplement my reading of the Coast of Utopia. I did successfully finish Shipwreck, but I'm afraid that I didn't really get it -- I agree, olivia_circe, that it really needs the rest of the trilogy. And maybe the Turgenev will prove illuminating, if I can get through it.

Also got a Stoppard volume with Every Good Boy Deserves Favour -- the symphony one -- and Professional Foul. Don't know if I'll read either this summer or not, since I'm supposed to be doing more background reading on Stoppard biographies, and Wilde's biographies and works. Speaking of which, I really must watch Wilde again. And also dig up the title of the Bosie play from several years ago at Stratford...

Anyway. I'm officially settled in at my uncle's in Takoma Park. I'm living in my 8-year-old cousin's room (she's sharing bunkbeds with one of her brothers). I have two drawers in her dresser, and a foot-and-a-half of closet space, into which I need to somehow fit two suitcases of clothes. I have a hamster named Houdini for a roommate, and a cat called Hugo to keep my feet warm at night. Aside from purchasing books and sucessfully mailing my room key back to MHC, I haven't done anything of great note yet. I've spent three days calling AFI and waiting to be called back, which is ridiculous. Ooh, and I updated my resume. Theoretically, I've done something with cover letters in the past two days, too -- but today, letters WILL get done. Honest.
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Comments

Re: no books...only guides and foot high stacks of letters

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

dude, it's like day three. i think you'll settle one way or the other eventually.

have patience, young one. :)

Re: no books...only guides and foot high stacks of letters

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

also, i love that you're checking blogs at work. do be a dear and clear my address out of the history -- i'd rather Iowa farmboys weren't stumbling across my journal without my knowing it. ;)

Re: no books...only guides and foot high stacks of letters

[llogan.livejournal.com]

so, if she tells you in advance about the farm boys, youre totally down?

Re: no books...only guides and foot high stacks of letters

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

:P