Valet Reader

Wow, I am so glad that we are starting a new week today. Even if you’re not wondering why, I’m going to tell you. You ain’t got no choice, ya hear!

The week started off in grand fashion you see. After a nice relaxing weekend excursion to Yosemite I returned to my apartment late last Sunday (1/17) to find that my walls were spitting at me. And by that I imply the ceiling, walls and light fixture were leaking water. Oh yay! Obviously I call the apartment manager and at first got no response. I ventured to the roof whereupon I saw a lake, the size of lake Michigan, directly over my apartment. Double oh yay! Well, eventually the apartment manager called back and arranged to have some nice gents come round. After leaving me with two very large industrial dehumidifiers (about the size of mini-fridges) they left for the night. 7 am, the next morning. Knock, knock, knock on my door. “You’re leaking all over my apartment down stairs!!!!” Yells an extremely rude, obnoxious cow of a woman. “What is this??” referring to the dehumidifier in the hallway. In lieu of throwing down and punching this woman in the nose I informed her of the situation and closed my door. Long story short, as of yesterday my kitchen is more or less unusable, my front hallway unusable, the walls of the entrance way stripped, dust everywhere. Let’s continue though. Lucky for me on Thursday I got to go in for a root canal. Triple oh yay! Of course this also happened to be the same night that the workers were in my apartment until 7pm and the same night that I blew a fuse at 9pm. Oh, but being a normal type of fuse would be too simple right? Needless to say, I had no power for the rest of the night. Oh you may have thought that was it, but on Friday I woke up to find that I have conjunctivitus (pink eye)! Did I mention my birthday was on Saturday? Oh, I was feeling great!

Ok, enough complaining. I’m sorry, I just had to let it out and you my dear readers were the lucky recipients of my story.

Hopefully you can now fully understand why I am so glad that last week is over and today is the start of something new. Here’s to some great book events!

Wednesday, January 27th
@ 7pm
- Audrey Niffenegger, author, will be speaking about signing copies of her latest book Her Fearful Symmetry at Book Passage in Corte Madera. You may not know Ms. Niffenegger from this book but you undoubtedly do from her book turned movie, The Time Traveler’s Wife. While I did enjoy Time Traveler’s I’ve heard the movie is pretty subpar and then after I read Ken Grimwood’s Replay I chose to completely forget about Time Traveler’s. Let’s talk about her latest book Fearful Symmetry though. I may not have read it but it has gotten marginal reviews across the board. It’s basically another love story, I think that pretty much says it all. If your a fan of her writing, you’ll probably enjoy it and seeing her in person.

Wednesday, January 27th
@ 12PM
- Elizabeth Gilbert, author, will be speaking at Dominican College in San Rafael about her new book Committed in conjunction with Book Passage. I really don’t to go into how I feel about Ms. Gilbert and I am more than distressed that she’s actually written another book that takes off where her last book (if I dare call it that) leaves off.

Friday, January 29th
@ 7pm
- Elizabeth Kastova, author, will be signing and discussing her newest novel The Swan Thieves at Books, Inc. on Van Ness. While I have to admit I enjoyed Kastova’s previous work The Historian much more than this novel, I still think it would be interesting to hear what she’s got to say. She definitely has some dark themes in her books and I wouldn’t mind finding out where these ideas come from. She’ll aslo be appearing on Saturday, January 30th at Book Passage in Corte Madera.

Heavy hitting authors this week, nice work SF.

And to justify my whining…

Entrance Way

Kitchen