This is Summer

Since I haven't posted for awhile, I give you a brief update of what I've been doing lately. 

What I'm Listening To

• Lots and lots of Andrew Bird, including a little of his first CD, which is bizarre and very Celtic-sounding. I don't know when he developed his real style, but I'm glad he did.
• Lots of covers. Most recent addition? Greg Laswell's cover of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." It's lovely.
• This bizarre mix of space-related music I made. It has "Rocketman" and "Spaceman" and "Starlight" and lots of Ziggy Stardust and Major Tom. I like it. I want to make a mix of train songs next. Or rain songs, in honor of our long wet spell here.
• TV On the Radio. It isn't like anything else I normally listen to, but it's kind of great.
• Fanfarlo. I found them on All Songs Considered the other day, and they are FABULOUS.
• The National, of whom I never seem to tire.
• Podcasts and NPR. So nerdy.
  

What I'm Reading

• Most recently, The Secret History (so good! Thank you Greg!), Run, (because even though I thought Bel Canto had a cheesy ending, I love Ann Patchett's style a lot), and soon Return of the Native, because Treb and I have made a pact that we will Hardy it up together this summer, and have our own little mini book club. 
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, which is the book for next month in the book club around here. It looks good and I'm excited. 
• If I ever get around to it, I would love to read Life of Pi and The Satanic Verses this summer, not to mention the Anne Tyler and Norman Mailer books I picked up from the sale table and B&N. (Yes I'm saving money, but that doesn't mean you can't buy the essentials!) 

What I'm Watching

• More BBC miniseries movies
• More Buffy, especially when my parents go on vacation and I don't have to feel guilty about not talking to them for hours on end. I'm only a season and a half or so away from the musical episode, and I'm pretty sure Nathan Fillion is going to pop in at some point as well. I'm just going to pull out all the stops and go full speed ahead on the nerd train. 
• Henry V and The Secret Garden at the very least down at ye old USF. 
• Some new show called Mental that showed up on Hulu. It's not amazing, but the head of the psych ward is cute and British, so I keep watching. 
• The Brothers Bloom tonight, with Kellie. It exceeded my expectations, which were decently high. I loved it. 
• Up, which I saw with Coop and Savy and Spence and my parents. DE-lightful. 

What I'm Doing

Besides being a miser and hoarding my money, I'm doing the following: 

• Enjoying my job and getting to see my brothers every day. 
• Learning basic html so that I can write the code for the emails we send out and get rid of all of the crap that Dreamweaver throws in that our email program takes back out.
• Buying makeup with my coupon code (mwinegar0509, people! 10% off!), usually one item at a time because that's all I think of. 
• Regretting the fact that I probably will not be going to see Conor Oberst at library square next week because a) it's $30 and I am saving money, after all and b) all of my friends who like him (Lindsey) are far, far away. And since I don't live in NYC with Treb, I don't get to go and see him for free. Hmph. 
• Doing my best to have a good attitude about the singles' ward (like mostly surviving the ward campout)
• Getting ready to sign a lease for an apartment in Indiana and registering for classes with professors who have diverse, unpronounceable names. I know that one of them is Kurdish.
• Pretty much hyperventilating every time I have to drive through a puddle on the freeway. Stupid slushy spinout. 
• Showering my nephews and nieces with adoration. (Exhibit A)

That pretty much catches you up to speed.  Maybe I'll post another playlist soon, since actually writing has been a struggle lately.