Lists

When I first recovered from the general bemusement of an injury that left me with 6 weeks off work I was pretty much excited: I’ll be able to read a pile of those books that I’ve not had time to read, watch all those DVDs I’ve picked up for cheap, and so on. I had a remarkably cultured convalescence planned. This has mostly been interrupted by The Wire and sudoku (then killer sudoku, then kakuro). So much so, that I’ve done little of what I planned. Never mind. Here’s a list of what I’ve read:

• Vertigo, Broileau & Narcejac
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill, GK Chesterton
• London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd (finished – it’s been in the bathroom a looong time)
• The Dialogues, Luciano de Crescenzo
• The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
• Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (half of)
• Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (ongoing)
• Penguin Atlas of World History (ongoing)

Disappointingly slender for four weeks, I’m sure you’ll agree. There may have been more than this, but not many. Here’s what I’ve watched

• Vertigo
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Babel
• The Black Dahlia
• Psycho
• The Wire Season 1
• The Wire Season 2
• The Wire Season 3
• The Wire Season 4
• The Wire Season 5

You’ll spot a theme towards the end there. Here’s some things I’ve done:

• Frequented the Crystal Cafe on Lordship Lane
• Sat in the park reading and drinking coffee from a flask
• Rearranged the bookshelf
• Created a pile of books for the charity shop and CDs for eBay (ongoing)
• Braved Walthamstow market on a wet Saturday
• Lunch at The Navigation, the Harvester in Ponders End
• Fixed a virus-laden laptop to use at home
• Written an article about Weezer

Here’s some things I’ve still got to do:

• Write my personal statement for my Masters application
• Sort out some more CDs for eBay
• Order some jiffy bags and maybe some new Converse
• Probably lots of other things