{"id":7439,"date":"2024-06-23T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:19:53","slug":"holiday-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"Holiday week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Due to a confluence of local and U.S. holidays, we only had one(!) work day this week! Even the work day was light, as most folks took the day off, leaving just a skeleton crew in the office. John and I spent our days mostly at home reading and watching a little TV – a good time to just recharge our batteries and also enjoy a rainy day or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I popped out yesterday morning for a fitting for a leather coat, then gassed up the cars (with everyone out of town, the wait for a pump was much shorter). Lea came over Friday morning for coffee. I had a good visit with Muffy on the phone one morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finished (and enjoyed) \u201cThe Frozen River\u201d by Ariel Lawho. I also read \u201cThe Mushroom at the End of the World.\u201d Although a lot of it was over my head (OK, most of it), I did like Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing\u2019s prose, and now I know a bit about the matsutake mushroom. I enjoyed the short novella, \u201cMrs. Caliban,\u201d by Rachel Ingalls with its strange story and wry outlook. Yesterday, I started \u201cA Gate at the Stairs\u201d by Lorrie Moore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John and I are almost finished with a very well done documentary about the Cold War, \u201cTurning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War.\u201d And we\u2019ve started the remake of \u201cPresumed Innocent.\u201d We also watched the 1935 version of Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Tale of Two Cities,\u201d after he read it this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is the ninth anniversary of Mom\u2019s death – hard to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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