Slow and steady wins the race, but it’s usually difficult for me to see progress as it’s happening. But as cynical as even I can be, even I have to acknowledge milestones when I see them.
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The past couple of weeks have been cramming to get things done before I start my weeklong “enforced” staycation tomorrow – enforced in so far as if I don’t start burning accrued PTO, I stand to lose some of it and I’ll be got’damned if that happens!
It was a productive couple of weeks, though. There’s some stuff I’ve been slowly working my way toward for the past couple of years that are finally bearing fruit now. In a way, it’s the worst time for someone like me to take a vacation, because now I want to capitalize on the momentum! But see, I always want to capitalize on the momentum and what that usually does is burn me out.
Well, not today, Satan! Slow and steady…
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Finished Reading:
- AUTOCORRECT by Etgar Keret
- THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY by Suleika Jaouad
Started reading:
- THE STORY CURE by Dinty W. Moore
- UNRELIABLE NARRATOR by Aparna Nancherla
- SOME PEOPLE NEED KILLING by Patricia Evangelista
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One of the things I’ve been binging with my new PBS Passport subscription (in support of WSKG, the PBS station closest to me) is PROFILAGE–which I refuse to reference by its US title, THE PARIS MURDERS. I mean, I can understand why the BBC One’s SPOOKS was re-branded MI-5 in the US. I didn’t know any better because it was still indicative of what the show is about. But retitling TF1’s PROFILAGE (“Profiling”) to THE PARIS MURDERS just doesn’t do the show justice. I feel like it’s got the best characters I’ve ever seen–not just the main cast, but the suspects as well.