Science (non) Fiction

Never let me go

I finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go today and wrote briefly about it.. (I finished Speaking with the Angel and wrote about it there too, but didn’t have much to say) The book was amazingly enthralling, especially once I’d made it about 40-50 pages in – it was really, really hard to put down, mostly cause I really wanted to know what was really going on. The authour (who wrote Remains of the Day, which I’ve never read or seen the movie) was very good at keeping the suspense up, only letting us in on the barest details and keeping you always wanting more. I highly recommend it, but not for the faint of heart.

We’re back from Wintergreen – the conference was great, almost all the speakers were really good, and I learned a lot. Unfortunately, our lab manager broke her right wrist and left thumb while on the slopes during our free time snowboarding. So she spent a good bit of time at the ER, and was on some pain meds for most of our ride home (I drove us up and back). She’s had the surgery to put pins in her thumb, but I don’t know when she’ll be back to work, since she can’t even drive at this point, much less pipette anything. We’ll see…

Other random things about my life right now:

~ I got an awesome silicone cover for my cell phone – it’s pink

~ I’ve spent an hour on the elliptical machine at the YMCA the last three days – no soreness yet to report! Hope this will help get me ready for the run in Charleston.

~ My brother is talking about moving to Los Angeles – I hate that he’ll be on the other coast (HATE THIS PLAN, MACKS!), but I’m glad he’s getting an awesome fresh start hopefully breaking into doing what he loves for a living.

~ My seminar is next week – I could use some prayer.

~ I might get to see Steven Curtis Chapman in concert tomorrow night! Awesome!