Currently reading "Cloud Atlas", and it is excellent. I'm stuck in a section of the book that is a bit convoluted, but the beauty of this novel is that if you keep reading, it will change. Mitchell seems to write in every conceivable voice and style, and does so effectively. I'll take a slow section here or there if it means getting to read something so refreshingly different.

I'm home this weekend with Alex. I have the AC running, but at the moment he has a little spray bottle full of water and is having a hell of a time spraying himself. I may join him shortly!

About that last post, and my mother-in-law spending the night...it actually went well. Remarkably, I am able to say this in spite of the fact that we lost power that night at around 8 p.m. (horrendous thunder storms). The three of us just relived old memories for a couple of hours and went to bed. We went to the graduation the next day, where I got a ridiculous sunburn, and that was that. All in all, relatively painless.

I'm pretty anxious for classes to start again. Not because I miss them, so much as I want to "hurry up already" and finish this degree, because there's another one waiting after that. At the moment I am fairly certain that I would like to do the PhD at B.U. How remains an unanswered question. I fully intend to cross that bridge when I come to it, and not a moment sooner.

Tonight, my mother-in-law is spending the night at our place. If I'm:
a) still alive, and
b) still there
we are going to Massachusetts tomorrow for my wife's little sister's high school graduation. She lives in a town called Halifax, which is apparently just before "The Cape." Here's hoping they have a somewhat interesting commencement speaker.

On the reading front, I plan on starting "Cloud Atlas" later on in the weekend. If M is to be believed (and he was dead on about "Old School"), then I'm in for a great read.

C and I are looking to move in the coming months. Until I hit Powerball (which isn't likely since you have to play to win), we won't be buying a house in Southern Maine... but we do need a bigger place.

And for any that didn't know, after the layoff I mentioned in the last post, I returned to a former employer. Since college, I have worked for five different companies... and I'm already starting to recycle. If you were wondering why I'm working on my Masters degree now, perhaps that will help clear things up for you.

Did I mention my mother-in-law will be spending the night?