let's raise a toast to saint joe strummer...

Pretty average week so far.  Miriam has been at work a lot this week because of a conference the Bonner Foundation was hosting.  While it meant she was at work until 9 Monday and Tuesday and had to go in on Sunday, it did mean I got to mooch 2 free meals which was awesome.  For those who don't know I love free stuff, I'll take advantage of anything free, even if it makes no sense to take advantage of it.

We're heading up to camp this weekend which I am really looking forward to.  Miriam will be chaplain all next week while I'll be taking Greek...meh (though we don't have class Monday so that is nice).  It will good to see all the changes up there and to see people, not to mention that the Adirondacks have to be about my favorite place on earth.  In the few days I'll be up we'll hopefully get in some good hiking and canoeing.

Read two more books so far this week: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.  Ferris' book was a fiction novel about a marketing office trying to survive in the early 00's.  It was really quite funny and a quick read.  I have never worked in an office but I feel like it probably gave a good portrait of office work.  Vonnegut's book was by far the weirdest of his I've ever read but good none-the-less.  I think I need a break from him though.  3 of his books in 2 weeks has left my brain fried.

I've been listening to The Hold Steady's new album and it is freakin' great.  They are truly a modern day Springsteen with a little more punk mixed in.  I also recently downloaded an older Drive-By Truckers album, The Dirty South.  The album came out in 2004 and it kicks major ass.  The album is a driving Southern Rock album that is able to embrace and at the same time rise above the hick-ish stereotypes of the south.