Tuesday, 1 February 2005
february to-do list
House:
Touch up paint in dining room and kitchen
Strip table
Make sign for the house's name
Repaint kitchen doors
Garden
Take out vegetable garden
Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
Errands
New houseplant to kill
Curtain for bedroom doorway
Look for kitchen rugs
Stepstool for kitchen
Lisaism
Jared Diamond with Kal Friday 3rd
"Sideways" with Koroshiya Saturday 4th
Cowboys Are My Weakness Monday 7th
Emlet's birthday
CLH's birthday
SEM, Wednesday 23rd
Book club: Kite runner 24th
Reading:
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (by the 4th)
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (audio)
John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Land
Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spiderwoman
José Saramago, Journey to Portugal
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (on-screen)
Exercise
Bike as long as it's over 25, and work on 20
Gym too
Walk three miles on bus days.