#77 - LIST FRIDAY, Swept Floor and Clean Sheets Edition

"...but, of course, it was universal for Brenda, more than that, cosmic--it made every cashmere sweater a battle with her mother, and her life, which, I was certain, consisted to a large part of cornering the market on fabrics that felt soft to the skin, took on the quality of a Hundred Years' War..."
-Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus

Things That Are Making Me Happy Today

• the above quote
• a newly cleaned bedroom
• lime Italian soda that tastes a little bit like perfume (but in a good way)
• The Hold Steady on TSOYA
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip on DVD
• the fact that I get to go buy textbooks tomorrow
• pondering the age-old dilemma of looseleaf vs. notebooks

Movies Watched In The Past Two Weeks

• Fight Club
• Bright Young Things
• Dead and Breakfast
• I Capture the Castle
• Love Me If You Dare
• Made of Honor
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Books Read In The Past Two Weeks

• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
• Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander
• Poseur by Rachel Maude
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth