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Reading for fun!

After I finish up with exams (so close, so close) I have a little over three weeks off before my bar exam prep class starts up. I have a few projects (some creative, some academic) whose loose ends need tying up, I'll be working part time, and graduation with all of its attendant parties falls within those three weeks, but I'm going to make some time for reading, too.

Here's a list of books I've picked up recently:

The Fun-Reading-Awaits-Me List
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
This is Water, by David Foster Wallace (capturing a commencement speech he delivered in 2005)
All Souls by Christine Schutt
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (just picked up the Pulitzer)
A Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

By the way, it's 90 degrees outside right now! Spring wouldn't just up and pass us by, would it? Summer isn't here yet, right? If so, I am in drastic need of a haircut because there is no way my split ends are going to stand up to summer humidity right now.

Also, I've been up since some really early hour this morning and went to bed at 3am. I think. These outlines are killing me. Anyway, the lack of sleep and the heat are getting to me and I need a nap. Back to outlines later...

murky music

I've spent a ridiculous number of hours at Murky Coffee's Arlington shop in the last three years.  This last semester, I loved studying there on Saturday nights during the hours leading up to closing time. I loved watching people head out for the nigh, and enjoyed the space more and more as it got later and quieter. I'd get a head start on my work for the week, enjoy some quiet time, and fill up on caffeine so I could head out for dancing or hanging out with friends later in the night. 

The Arlington shop closes later this week, so tonight was my last quiet, productive, Murky kind of Saturday night. Leaving there tonight had more of an effect on me than leaving my last class ever on Thursday, though perhaps it was because I was walking into a downpouring thunderstorm. Here's the music that kept me company during my last Murky Saturday.

Spring 2009 Exam Playlist
Rain...Bishop Allen
Dog Days Are Over...Florence and The Machine
South China Moon...Bishop Allen
When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade...The Boy Least Likely To
Natural Man...Harlem Shakes
A Balloon On a Broken String...The Boy Least Likely To
Maurine...Say Hi
Technicolor Health...Harlem Shakes
TFO...Harlem Shakes
Nothing But Change, Pt. 1...Harlem Shakes
Either/Or...Wild Sweet Orange
Sunlight...Harlem Shakes
Angel, Won't You Call Me?...The Decemberists
O Valencia!...The Decemberists
Running Out...Mates of State
Losing Streak...Eeels
Live it Out...Metric
Gimme Sympathy...Metric
Sick Muse...Metric
Stadium Love...Metric

Crazy days ahead but a good soundtrack

A couple weeks ago I got around to making a new playlist for a get-through-the-end-of-law-school mix cd. At the time, I had seven weeks left until my last exam. Now, it's closer to about 5 weeks. It's exciting to think that the end is so near, but I haven't fully realized what that means yet, probably because there is still SO much to do in that time.

20 Songs to Get Me Through the Next 7 Weeks
1. Kiss With a Fist...Florence & the Machine
2. Tessellate...Tokyo Police Club
4. Everyday...Vetiver
5. The Modern Leper...Frightened Rabbit
6. Swimming Pool...The Submarines
7. My Year in Lists...Los Campesinos!
8. A Wedding...Oxford Collapse
9. Bicycle...Shout Out Louds
10. Hummingbird...Born Ruffians
11. Spare Change...Matt & Kim
12. Hey, Snow White...The New Pornographers
13. Sweet Darlin'...She & Him
14. Bow to the Middle...The Rosebuds
15. Ageless Beauty...Stars
16. San Bernadino...The Mountain Goats
17. Don't Forget Sister...Low vs Diamond
18. Washington, D.C....The Magnetic Fields
19. Your English is Good...Tokyo Police Club
20. Click, Click, Click, Click...Bishop Allen

UPDATE: Get the mix here.

One of my favorite combinations

Food and Letters. Again!!

photo from luiza p. on flickr. via serious eats.