New Book

A patient told me about this book about 6 months ago, I wrote down the title on a sticky note and stuck it up on my desk so I would remember to go get it. I finally got around to going to the library to check it out.

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks. I'm only up to the middle of chapter 3, its very interesting. I'm familiar with some of their customes and mutilation customs but to hear the mutilations described so frankly really is shocking. Geraldine is an american women who spent 6 years in the middle east, she write about the friends she made and her own encounters. Its extremenly interesting to read the different spectrums of women in the same religion and beleifs and actual accounts of these womens lives.

Is that ? ....

While she is not mentioned in the article, Lisa is featured. I just got this in an email from my sister, I guess she just found it or somebody sent it to her.

30 is 3 years away

Yes thats right I'm now 27. I woke up this morning feeling like I was 80 - massive migraine. So I called out of work. Jimmy let me sleep till 10 and then I felt better so I didn't want to just sit home. SO... I scopped up Jimmy and headed for the Princeton Jct. train sta. and hopped onto a train to NYC. I've been wanting to take Jimmy to The Museum of Natural History for a while now, so thats what we did. James and I had fun, I remember the museum being grander when I was younger but I guess thats just because I just was a kid the last time I was there. :) James loved the train ride, the subway, and everything else we did today.

But my migraine was in and out the whole day at its worst in the early morning and from 4pm until now.

I'm Back !

I have been having a lot of trouble w/my computer at home. It's as they say KAPUT!
So I ordered a new laptop from dell and it delivered today. I'm excited, its nice. But now I do have to adjust to typing on the keyboard area. I wanted to downsize if I was going to buy a new computer so now I can get my computer desk out of Jimmy's room.

I haven't really been doing anything exciting lately though. James went to Wildwood for the weekend with Bob for the fireman's convention. My birthday's on Monday, Lisa's boyfriend is coming home for a week or so which means she'll probably blow off my bday plans. So now I'll have to make some new ones, ideas?

I want to start doing more cultural and fun things though, hit some museums, go to some theater shows or something. While I don't live in Europe as my friend does, I live an area that I never "explore" NYC and Philly and even NJ has lots of interesting stuff also. I should get on that...

Zoo Time

Jimmy and I went to the Philly Zoo today. He's been asking me for two weeks if he could go to the zoo so we went. It was a nice warm day today, not so insane that it would make you sweat and barely any humidity, it would have been a good tanning day. We have been to the Philly Zoo at least 3 times and hes been there at least twice with his father, so we pretty much have the footpaths down pat now. We Saw all the monkeys, hippos, rhinos, elephants, tortises, bald eagle, kids petting zoo area, zebras, giraffes, etc. etc. We finally got to see the gorillas (philly had a fire in the gorilla habitat a few years back and have been rebuilding it) so Jimmy loved that. But nothing extremenly exciting, everything you'd pretty mch expect to see in a zoo :)

Greg and Eric invited me to a free concert at a park near their house the music was pretty good, the guys were disappointed they missed the group they wanted to see. After we went to ChiChi's ? or Chili's had some nachos and some drinks, and had a good time, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard with Greg before. They had a karoke night going on, some people were really good and some just sucked so we laughed at them - hey I know I can't sing and won't attempt to do so in public!

Oh, by the way, the baby guinea pig's name is Oreo "The" Cookie as per James he added "The"