To the west coast and back again
Does anyone else who is a blogspot user have issues with changing the font? Every time I scroll down and click on Times, but it inevitably comes out as some other font. I've resorted to typing a few letters, highlighting, and then clicking Times font... Maybe my computer is just crazy.
Hi Natalie! What are you up to? Are you still in San Francisco?!? How did you find me?
Speaking of SF! I was just in SF for my interview on Friday. Being in California was almost surreal. It was like being home but not being home, since California is California but San Francisco is definitely NOT Los Angeles. As the shuttle was taking me from the airport to my hotel, I found myself being surprised to see a California license plate... But then I realized, duh. I'm in California. It was pouring rain and generally miserable on my first day there, Thursday. I checked in to my hotel, the Holiday Inn on Van Ness and walked around to find lunch... I found a pizzeria where I had a chicken sandwich and then went to see "A History of Violence." By the way, that is an excellent movie, for those of you who have a chance to still find it in an old theatre, or at least go rent it when it comes out in rentable form.
Anyway, I won't bore you with the details of my SF stay, but I will say that I really liked the program a lot and would be so incredibly excited and honored if I matched there. But we shall see what happens...
I'm back in Chicago now and it's freezing... literally. We got a lot of snow last night and today. And by a lot, I mean a couple inches. :) That's enough for me! If I have to take out my little snow scraper brush thing-a-ma-jig, that's too much snow. Don't even talk to me about buying a shovel. As I told Susan once, PRINCESSES DON'T SHOVEL. especially ones from California.
I finished Middlesex recently. It is a fascinating story that is written with much fluidity and beautiful descriptions of places and feelings of an adolescent mind. But I wouldn't say it was Virginia Woolf. or even Jose Saramago. These are my favorite authors. :) I picked up The Piano Teacher by Austrian Elfriede Jelinek today, as well as two plays by Harold Pinter called The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature recently, Jelinek in 2004 and Pinter in 2005. Several years ago, one of my new years resolutions was to read at least one book by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner of that year. I'm doing a little catching up but I've done pretty well. I read Disgrace by Coetzee and Fatelessness by Kertesz and The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul. and of course a long time ago, I read Blindness by Jose Saramago. Saramago has a new book out that I saw at the bookstore. I'm torn about reading it... I don't want to be let down after Blindness.
I hope everyone is watching Grey's Anatomy tonight!
Hi Natalie! What are you up to? Are you still in San Francisco?!? How did you find me?
Speaking of SF! I was just in SF for my interview on Friday. Being in California was almost surreal. It was like being home but not being home, since California is California but San Francisco is definitely NOT Los Angeles. As the shuttle was taking me from the airport to my hotel, I found myself being surprised to see a California license plate... But then I realized, duh. I'm in California. It was pouring rain and generally miserable on my first day there, Thursday. I checked in to my hotel, the Holiday Inn on Van Ness and walked around to find lunch... I found a pizzeria where I had a chicken sandwich and then went to see "A History of Violence." By the way, that is an excellent movie, for those of you who have a chance to still find it in an old theatre, or at least go rent it when it comes out in rentable form.
Anyway, I won't bore you with the details of my SF stay, but I will say that I really liked the program a lot and would be so incredibly excited and honored if I matched there. But we shall see what happens...
I'm back in Chicago now and it's freezing... literally. We got a lot of snow last night and today. And by a lot, I mean a couple inches. :) That's enough for me! If I have to take out my little snow scraper brush thing-a-ma-jig, that's too much snow. Don't even talk to me about buying a shovel. As I told Susan once, PRINCESSES DON'T SHOVEL. especially ones from California.
I finished Middlesex recently. It is a fascinating story that is written with much fluidity and beautiful descriptions of places and feelings of an adolescent mind. But I wouldn't say it was Virginia Woolf. or even Jose Saramago. These are my favorite authors. :) I picked up The Piano Teacher by Austrian Elfriede Jelinek today, as well as two plays by Harold Pinter called The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature recently, Jelinek in 2004 and Pinter in 2005. Several years ago, one of my new years resolutions was to read at least one book by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner of that year. I'm doing a little catching up but I've done pretty well. I read Disgrace by Coetzee and Fatelessness by Kertesz and The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul. and of course a long time ago, I read Blindness by Jose Saramago. Saramago has a new book out that I saw at the bookstore. I'm torn about reading it... I don't want to be let down after Blindness.
I hope everyone is watching Grey's Anatomy tonight!
posted by Vivian | 7:09 PM
2 Comments:
hey! you should have contacted me! i live kinda near where you stayed and i can guess where you had your pizza and watched your movie.. it's right down the street..oh well.. next time.. when you move here! haha. found your blog off of your friendster profile. i've been reading middlesex for like a year now. just can't get through it. -natalie
omg i totally forgot that you were there! and i was so sad all by myself on a friday night in san francisco!!! hopefully i'll match there and then we'll hang out! let me know if you're in chicago or L.A.!
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