Books For This Summer

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in the mean time...

I get to commute to work on a train for 30 min in the morning, and 30 minutes at night. That means at least 1 hour of reading time every day, guaranteed. YAY! I'm sure I could've done the same in school, but whatever...

Here's what's in my possession right now that I plan to read:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarisa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D
- "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D
- The Path To Love by Deepak Chopra
- A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
- The Tipping Point: How LIttle Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

Yup, so those are at least the books that are in my possession right now and that I'm staring at. If I have time and energy, I"ll read the random Japanese books in my cousins' collections. And I've decided, that, when I'm done with each book, I'll write a little something-something about them either in this blog or elsewhere... It'll force me to reflect!

If you'd like, I'll let you know what book I'm reading, so we can talk about it together!... I'm reading the first one on the list right now. The list isn't a reflection of the order in which I'll be reading the books, they're just the list. I'm almost done with it though, so I'm thinking I'll move on to The Tipping Point. We'll see. It's either that, or Eckhart or Deepak.

Superficiality of following trends and diseases (er... i dunno if the latter is superficial per say...)? or awakening your consciousness via Chopra and Tolle? We'll see...

In the mean time, here's a random video that the very personalized and new YouTube featured on my home page today.



Yes, that's the feature of the day. Some guy named Natty. Commentators claim this song makes no sense. I don't think so... It's a... pre-sex/during-sex/post-sex song....... I think.

Anyways. I'm super jetlagged because I was supposed to sleep during the flight, but I got bumped up to Business class, so I felt that I should stay up and enjoy the business class-ness of the flight. So i was going to order wine and champagne, but i decided that that would completely and utterly defeat the purpose of trying to stay awake.. so alas, I sat up, watched 27 Dresses and part of that Kate Hudson Gold related movie (only a part of it, couldn't deal with it otherwise) and now I have a severe case of jetlag.

Blogging to occur again soon.

exes and hos...?

i mean: XOXO (x's and o's...)