Fall Break

     It's a Monday morning, and I should probably be rereading Hamlet right now, but I need to get started on this week somehow....

     Fall break was last week, and so I went home and read a lot. Finished Chicken Soup for the College Student's Soul and Concerning Cats, raced through a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Jan Karon's newest Mitford novel, and started a book on how puzzles improve our brains and a Star Wars book on the rise of Darth Vader.
     Petted all the dogs and most of the cats, got some homework finished, and caught strep throat. Mom, Courtney and I went to an estate sale in Jemks Saturday afternoon, where we found a bunch of old books, several scrapbooks of newspaper clippings(one about ancient college football stories, mixed in with equally ancient recaps of southern Missouri high school games; the other of tragedies of people dying unexpectedly, mostly in car wrecks). They're both pretty great.
      But even better are the old magazines we found: a 1974 Saturday Evening Post with articles about the blue jean revolution and a review for a new TV show called Kojak; a 1927 copy of the National Farm Journal; and a 1931 copy of Cosmopolitan, featuring an astonishingly large amount of text, including stories by Somerset Maughan and P.G. Wodehouse.
     In the tragedy scrapbook, there were two copies of the Joplin News Herald, dated Tuesday, December 2, 1941 and Monday, December 8, 1941. So that was five days before, and then the day after - Pearl Harbor. It was amazing to get to read them.
     We also went to a flea market right after that estate sale, and got a few more things - I found a couple Garth Brooks CDs, and it's just really fun to be places like that.

     Realized that I'd outgrown Blimey Cow's kind of humor.We talked about and debated what's been happening on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., rewatched Age of Ultron and about half the first season of Agent Carter. It was nice to have a bit of a rest.