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Not a lot to update you on today, which is fine, because I have a lot of work to do anyway.
I spent the evening at home last night. I was the one who made dinner, using small-ish pizza crusts to make pizzas for Shobhit and myself, and a sample vegan white pizza sauce from work. I should have maybe poured more of it on, but that's okay. I still put plenty of toppings on them and I found mine tasty, at least. I cut it into four slices and ate only two, saving the other half for dinner tonight. This proved to be a good strategy: after consuming too much over the weekend and getting back up a couple of pounds, I was down a pound again this morning. I am eager to get back below 160, and as of today I have about three pounds to go.
Shobhit had a Braeburn Condos board meeting over Zoom. I had biked to the Central Library to pick up the current book for Book Club, called
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, and I started reading that, even though I'm already in the middle of a novel I borrowed from Alexia (
The House In the Cerulean Sea, which I am really enjoying). But, I really want to have actually read the book by our next Book Club meeting, which is on October 2. So, I did what I used to do in college, and budgeted pages: if I read at least 15 pages a day, I'll have it done by then. So my rule as of now is, I read 15 pages a day out of
Packing for Mars, and then if I still want to read anything, I'll turn to
The House In the Cerulean Sea.
I actually hate reading multiple books concurrently, but this is a rare case of having good reason to do so. Luckily I've got plenty of time in both cases, 15 pages a day for one being quite manageable, and in the case of the other, it's a rare book I'm reading that's
not from the library so I don't have any due dates to worry about. Also, in the case of last night at least, I quite easily got to page 15 as the page count starts right from the accolate quote pages in the front of the book.
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After Shobhit finished with his meeting, we watched some more of season one of
The Righteous Gemstones on HBO Max: episodes 4-6. I'm really enjoying it, although I'm baffled by Gideon's decision to keep hanging out with that dipshit stuntman who wants to rob the Gemstone Ministries.
Episode 6 ended with quite the cliffhanger, which made it very difficult not to keep watching. But, I wanted to read some more of my book!
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. . . And: I just finished my lunch break, during which I made it to page 30 in
Packing for Mars. I'm on track so far! I have a rescheduled Zoom lunch with Karen tomorrow though so tomorrow may be tricky. On the upside, I don't have any movies scheduled until at least this weekend.
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[posted 12:32 pm]
