Let the Reading Begin

To continue in the vein of yesterday's celebratory post, I'll be writing about all the glorious books I will be consuming during my upcoming six weeks of vacation. For all intents and purposes, I'm done for the semester: turned in my metaphors in political reporting paper yesterday...18 pages!...and tomorrow I'll hand in my curriculum design group project...80+ pages!

This all kicks off what I've been dying to do since the fall semester began--laze around on the couch with my cat, my favorite blanket, and the printed word.

What I'm currently indulging in is: Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like...Whatever by Leslie Savan. It took me a while to get into this book, as it just seemed to be a string of catch phrases perpetuated by pop culture (see anything Friends-related). But, the book has grown on me as the author has started to take a more indepth look at various categories of 'popisms' that serve to encapsulate cultural values and mores.

All I want for Xmas is...
a day playing in the snow that has been dumped in our local mountains after a particularly rare and robust winter storm.