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It's August, you know. How can it be August already? I've barely started summering!

Seems like this always happens. Just about the time I'm 'way past ready for summer, the temperature spikes to the high 90s and stays there until the snow starts to fall again. (It's possible that's a slight exaggeration.)

What happened to those long, balmy spring days, and the warm-but-not-smokin' early summer days we used to get? (It's possible my memory is at fault.)

Moving on, I wanted to say that my phone rang this morning! My actual work phone! It only rings once a week or so, so this was very exciting. Turned out to be a potential customer (and how she got my line, I'll never know), so I just transferred her on to someone else. That's the best kind of phone call.

The diet is going exceptionally well this week! Saturday I had spaghetti & Italian sausage (twice). Monday, for dinner, I had French fries and buttered kernel corn. Wednesday, I had four of the "two-bite" brownies that someone left in the lunch room. Some weeks, "exceptionally well" is code for "I've had a lot of calories and now I'm happy."

Hey! Tell me if The Great Depression and the New Deal (by Eric Rauchway) looks like a decent intro to the whys and wherefores of it all. Or maybe Rethinking the Great Depression (by Gene Smiley)?

I originally started looking for the R.C., who has been searching for a short, succinct "how did it happen" book about The Great Depression for quite a long time, without finding it, but now I'm interested on my own account as well. But not, you know, deeply interested. At least, not at the moment.

The weekend is approaching rapidly and I have no plans. Or, no firm plans. I have ideas around movie theatres and/or malls, but nothing concrete. With temperatures forecast to top 100 each day (and probably not cooling off that much at night), it strikes me as a perfect weekend to find air conditioning someone else is paying for. :)

Anyhow, even if the new Mummy movie isn't getting great reviews, I've heard that you need 3D glasses to watch it and I want to play!

I also need to see, Mamma Mia, which a friend assures me is the perfect combination of feel-good sentimentality and mock-worthy missteps. (And it's playing right across the street, so bonus points for offsetting A/C pollution by not driving my car to get to it, right?)

It's possible that I really didn't have anything to say today.