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This week all we can do is look at each other and yell "TEXAS!!!! NIGHTGAME!!!" We'll be in the shoe tonight, screaming our heads off.

This weekend is also Turkey's Birthday. On Sunday, he'll be a year old. We've had him for 9 months of that time and I couldn't imagine what our lives would be like without him. (As I type this he is howling in in the background to protest being brushed...)

He'll probably get a few treats and maybe a new nylabone, but his real gift was a donation to the Humane Society of America to help all of the pets that have been caught in the hurricane. Every time the news does a story about all of the animals that were left behind, Turkey is right there to lick my face when I tear up.

Best. Dog. Ever.

Book Fair

I haven't been updating my reading list because I've been reading such crap lately. You could classify it squarely as "Escapist," because I've been reading a lot to avoid thinking about work when I'm not actually at work. Also to avoid thinking about my thesis which has a lot to do with work. The good news is that while my library card may still be warm from all of the use it's gotten in the last month or two my wallet isn't any lighter.

Here's a partial list of the extremely fluffy books I've read:
The Da Vinci Code
The Rule of Four
Good in Bed
The Devil Wears Prada
And I have the newish Anna Wintour biography waiting for me at the library

Less fluffy books include:
Cryptomicon (again, because I'd forgotten what happened)
Body of Secrets
Bowling Alone
The Creative Class (again)
Bird by Bird

There's more, but I can't remember them all right now.

I actually left Angels and Demons in the hotel room in Amsterdam with a note written in it to say that "it wasn't very good, but it's a quick read and would probably do if you needed something to read while waiting for buses or trains." Dan Brown can spin a decent, fast-paced plot, but his writing is horrendous.

The best was that when we went to the pool on Labor Day (to relax after a two-wedding weekend!) the boy's brother saw me reading The Devil Wears Prada and asked me if it was about "social and economic injustice in the fashion industry?" Someone is giving me way too much credit.