I’ve got the Sunday blues, end-of-vacation version. I’ve been sitting around in my nightgown most of the day so far, messing around on the computer, with perhaps an hour of productive work on the ninth-grade final exam. Now it’s time to get up and do a few errands: put gas in the car, get lunch supplies for the week. Later our nephews Snufkin and Sniff are coming over, and we’ll bring our niece (the one who is now a big sister) over here to play (thereby giving my sister a break). I haven’t given this niece a pseudonym yet, but in keeping with the Moomin theme, the obvious choice is Little My.
I’m motivating myself with the promise that I can go to the bookstore tonight and use my remaining gift-card balance to buy a few books for my classroom library–books to read for fun, that students might pick up and enjoy. I have some old ones at home–a couple of back issues of Granta, some short-story collections, etc.– but I’m thinking about buying copies of books that I happened to love in high school, like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Watership Down, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Do you have any suggestions for me?
