I'm Enjoying...

Watching: The Flight of the Concordes, US presidential debates

The former is the only thing I have ever booked to see in the Edinburgh Fringe and promptly lost the tickets for so I've never seen them live. If anyone hasn't seen it yet please look it out - it's just genius understated stuff about a crap New Zealand band (with songs) plus their painfully upbeat manager.

US Presidential debates. Bizarrely compelling ritual. And great entertainment to boot. What can I say? Obama comes across very impressively. And I've learned that John McCain's a "maverick". Maverick. Maverick. Maverick. And just in case you didn't get that the first time - maver-

Reading: The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani

Ok, this sounds factual miserable and dry. It is anything but (well obviously there are depressing parts but this is still not a miserable read). It has had me riveted for the past couple of weeks. I have taken it on planes and to hotels...I will write more about this for VL at some point but that's my "fun reading " of the moment.

Doing: Playing badminton.

I haven't done this since I was a kid but I've started to go with the Geek's work colleagues. Of course playing against a load of geeks is quite motivating. I immediately feel pumped to the gills with testosterone and start high-fiving and "yeahing" all over the place and generally embarrassing myself. But it's just as fun as it used to be. I wonder why I forget about things I enjoyed as a kid.

Just three things from me to get us started (if anyone is still there after my extended hiatus recently).

What are you enjoying at the moment? (And no penguins or punching please - let's leave that for another day.)

Comments

[Louise]

I'm enjoying Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. And the whole general financial melt-down apocalypse rolling news merry-go-round.

Also this is a good time of year for really nice apples. Mmm, crunchy.

[Eve]

I am enjoying re-reading Flowers in the Attic, which I haven't read since I was 12 years old and it's still as compelling as it was then... that's my guilty pleasure.

I'm also enjoying sunshine when it's out, the revival of Wispas and writing in the first person.

[RosyB]

APPLES!! Yes!

Not sure the economic crisis is quite so enjoyable although morbidly fascinating.

Now, you are going to have to tell me what this "Flowers in the Attic" book is, Eve. Is it a coming of age Judy Blume Forever type affair? People keep talking about it and I have no idea.

[Eve]

How has Flowers in the Attic passed you by???? One of the original Virginia Andrews books - she died and left loads of manuscripts but the ones written by other people just aren't the same. It's not a kids book, or even a teen book, but it's about kids... in short - father dies, mother takes her 4 children back to her parents home (stinking rich) and shuts them in the attic for a night or two until she explains them away to her father. But a night or two turns to months and then years pass during which one dies, there's starvation, serious beatings and incest... *whew* There's another three books which follow the familys lives after they escape. And I loved it as a kid and was really scared of reading it again, in case it was a huge disappointment. But it was great all over again! Read it, it's one of those things you just have to do.

[London Hotels]

I am enjoying reading Flowers in the Attic. I started it in my London flight via LMT. I just love it.