Oh February, I hardly knew you.
I’m taking three courses this semester that I am enjoying, particularly my world religions class. There’s a great mix of religious and spiritual backgrounds and experiences among the students and our instructor encourages our questioning and respectful conversation. I’m behind on my reading for everything, however, and am making a mad scramble to catch up and keep up before my carefully laid plans of efficiency fall even further apart into a hot mess of non-productivity.
I’m looking forward to some required reading that I need to start soon (read: two weeks ago), particularly Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. It’s been on my “to read” list for years now, but there’s nothing like getting tested in a class to motivate a person to get around to it already. I’m also finally starting Michael Pollen’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, yet another victim of a reading list languishing pitiably in a corner somewhere. I’d read and thoroughly enjoyed his earlier work, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World and have no real excuse for taking so long. He’s got a new book out already, damn it!
On a less self-flagellating note, my sister and her family came back to San Diego for a few days as part of a week-long SoCal vacation. Various groupings of family members met up for pizza at Woodstock’s, an all-day excursion to the zoo, and a post-rain frolic in the sand at Silver Strand State Beach. I blew a weekend’s worth of studying and it was completely worth it to ride the Skybucket with one niece and to have the other tell me that the ridiculously enormous millipedes in the insect exhibit were ‘icky’. So fun.
Haven’t been taking many pictures lately. I will remedy this soon.
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