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I had a marvelous Thanksgiving with fabulous food and even better company. Thanks cofax!

Here I am with a 4-day weekend and what have I done, after my swearing I'd get tons of work done the next 4-day opportunity? Read and watch tv/clear stuff off the Tivo. I think it's the thrill of no being at work that gets me going on projects. Yeesh. I know better, and yet.

So. Books read in the last week:

"Waiting for my cats to die," by Stacy Horn, who started Echony.com, which I haven't looked at on-line, in case it still exists. She has 2 diabetic cats, her on-line community, drums in a Brazilian band, and does research on cemetaries and interviews old people. I enjoyed it, and, as a bonus, several of her very short chapters are results of polls she posted on Echo or in the Secret Space inside Echo. Before I return it to my co-worker, I shall jot down some of them for future memes/polls.

Dana Stabenow's newest Kate Shugak mystery, which I loved. This one takes her back to Anchorage, and once again reminded me that with her books, I need to slow down in my mad Kate-plot-rush to absorb peripheral characters' history, because they and their families, their connections with other periphearl characters in other books come back later.

Jennifer Weiner's "Little Earthquakes" in which her main character meets friends in a birthing class and they all have babies. The characters are offbeat enough to not be Mary Sues and are vividly and visually drawn. It's no surprise that one book is being filmed - probably in post-production now - and the others have been optioned.

I'm dipping into "America: the book." It reads like the Daily Show.

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So, Echo does exist: http://www.echonyc.com/about/ Looks interesting.

WAHHHH!! I don't wanna go to work tomorrow!!!