On the horizon: Devil in the White City, about the Chicago World's Fair in 1983; a William Monk novel (Anne Perry mystery); more literacy or writing workshop material; a more focused architecture book, possibly Frank Lloyd Wright or Gaudi?

Need really to get away from the white world. Oh yes. Add African history to the list. But otherwise, really. All escapist. Need to find some other development or social justice type story or book... perhaps biography or school.

Day in the NGO life: get there, boss on phone, hands me 2 scribbled pages. i go off, take a look at mess. find people. kinda. bump into people, more like. luck or serendipity. look at stuff in boxes. get carts moved. read up on org. fortuitous request for org chart has more info - includes info abt field offices (tho still need more) and history of org. figure what the hack and empty all boxes in the afternoon. break down boxes and talk to grantwriter. on leaving, i tell my supervisor "see you tomorrow", and she says "yes! she's coming back!"

Feel like i've accomplished something, not so much due to the boxes (which is physical), but because started getting some info from people. Looks like will have to do this very much piecemeal. Side conversations and so on. Lucky break to have helpful administrative assistant around.

Day in the holiday life: Friday. Play guitar. Go to Longs to pick up photos. Go to mall. Go swimming. Watch French and BBC news. Watch Jeopardy.

Saturday. Read a section of Story of Architecture. A chapter of Because Writing Matters. A chapter of Katharine Graham. The science (Saturn's rings and moons), movie (Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11), news (Iraq's new government), and opinion (French opposition to US initiatives) in Time magazine. Dinner is egg and tomato and french beans and shrimp. Rice is white and brown mixed. Peach for fruit.