Beating around the post.

Ugh. Am I actually about to blog about not blogging? Is that better than not blogging? Or just absolutely pathetic? Also pathetic...my reading so far this year. I even went to my book group last night (gasp!) after only getting to page 27. Our book this month was
What the Body Remembers (Shauna Singh Baldwin). I do like it and will certainly continue. Baldwin is so far seeming to be one of those writers who has an overt passion for details (dare I say minutiae?) which can be a little distracting. What is it they say? The thing we despise most in others is the thing about ourselves we can't abide? (See post: Italian Soul.)

I had been hoping to get some significant reading in on a weekend business trip to Milwaukee (you heard me) but alas my order from overstock.com did not arrive in time for my departure. (Have you beeen? Something about the ability to simultaneously order a book and a beautiful German flannel duvet cover at over half off really rocked my world.) Of course, the flight from Minneapolis to Milwaukee lasts all of 43 minutes (plus there's the warm chocolate chip cookie interruption if you're lucky enough to be flying Midwest Airlines) so it really is better suited to The Magazine. Which I try not to venture out and about without. Ever. And somehow a big comfy bed all to myself, a giant flat screen quite literally at my fingertips and no need watch anything animated was a bit irresistible. And did I mention the complete and utter mental exhaustion of spending seven hours at a bridal show? Smiling?!

So the book I schlepped to 'sconi and back with barely a glance was Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl). (Finally, a writer more parenthetical than I. I think I like it! AND she's funny.) It did serve me well as a security blanket. My comfort item. How scary is an airport during questionable weather without a book? I'll never know...

Of course worst case scenario you can always pick up a magazine: Saveur for food and travel porn, Gourmet for recipes and compiling your next grocery list, Giant for the coolest music and culture and the occasional celebrity fix without a dumbass young actress or Britney in sight, and if you're at Our Very Own Mpls Int'l airport, Metro for Our Very Own local food, entertainment, arts and culture, Vanity Fair (for the articles!), Wired to totally geek out, Harper's (for the articles!), and if you read any magazine article this month make sure you check out the cover story in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Written by Andrew Sullivan, Why Obama Matters is a real eye opener. You can also find it on their web site right now.

Well, hell. I made a little something happen there after all...