Some years I hardly travel at all, and others I’m on the road more than I care to think about. So far I have trips planned (or already taken) for four of the first five months of 2009. Among my destinations: Chicago, Austin, San Diego, and Halifax.
Because House was a rerun last night, I got to catch up on this week’s Breaking Bad. During the opening credits, there was a warning about brief nudity in the episode. Hmm, I think. I wonder who that will be, knowing full well in advance the answer. It couldn’t be, say, Walt’s sister-in-law, the kleptomaniac. No, it has to be old Walt himself, who drops his pants at the drop of a hat, so to speak. From cooking meth in the altogether to wandering through the frozen food department in the grocery store as unclad as a jaybird, Walt’s the go-to guy for nakedness on that show.
I got a good start on my next project, one that is due on April 15th, this morning. I have to write three book reviews, one a standalone review and another that combines reviews of two books that don’t have much relationship to each other beyond the fact that they are both first novels that have received considerable attention. I guess that’s the common ground I’ll use to link them together.
I’m still getting a big kick out of Castle. I like the way the cop twisted his ear when he tried to listen in, and the way she schooled him on proper interrogation techniques. He actually is learning a lot by tagging along–he’s not just there to help solve her cases. She has as many sudden insights as he does, and hers are as likely to be as correct or wrong as his. The bit where she told Castle she wanted to join his poker games because she had fooled him about her background when relating to the kids was great.
