Return of the Sling?

Vermont was a blast and I'm going to a party in Orono on Friday. It's like networking. Except with friends. So, you know, it's like maintaining actual relationships. Those people are like my family and it's always wonderful to go back and visit and get drunk and swing on a little piece of wood attached to a rope that's attached to a giant tree. Especially the drunk part. But especially the swinging.

Also, books! The Harvest Market means cheap book, and this time there were $1 Bags of books at one of the book locales, so, listed below is my haul.

Plays - George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Candida)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Three Plays - Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker)
Galileo - Bertolt Brecht
Poet in New York - Federico Garcia Lorca
Odi et Amo - Catullus
Melville's Billy Budd& the Critics - ed. William T. Stafford
The Fall - Albert Camus
Two Legends: Oedipus and Theseus - Andre Gide
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Banquets of the Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov
The Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes - Lewis Grizzard
Modern Irish Short Stories - ed. Ben Forkner
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
How the Weather Was - Roger Kahn
Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The House of the Dead - Fyofor Dostoyevsky
Even the Browns - William B. Mead
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delaney
Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Symphony in G Minor (Jupiter) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (score)

What a haul! The Grizzard and the Christy are for my dad and mom respectively, but I will probably still read the Grizzard. He's a Southern humorist and is funny as hell. I made a point this year to not buy books that I've read. All of the above, except for the Graham Greene, I've not read. I got the Graham Greene because I lost my old copy. I'll read it again just to break in my new copy, but it'll be a floater on the bottom of the list. My reading list is the above listed, with five books in front of it. My goal is to have read all of them by the end of the year. Really, it's not that ambitious considering how quickly and how much time I devote to reading, but it will be a lot of fun. So, that's all for now, folks. Back to the job hunt tomorrow.