Nothing New

I come to my blog and there's nothing new. Just the silly counter that indicates I've come and gone. I guess I must be very happy, 'cause I have nothing to write and "les gens heureux n'ont pas d'histoire" (c'mon, you know enough French to figure that out). We watched the Giller award last night. http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/home.htm There were 5 contenders for this Canadian non-fiction litterary award. Three Montrealers - 2 French that were translated so we got a glimpse of the translators (go team!). The sole Torontonian won - Alice Munro was positively taken by his novel way of writing. I had actually read a review about it this summer so I wished him well. Actually, I will add the five books on my book list... That was more fun than watching the American elections result - they were front page news anyhow this morning. No way you were going to miss out unless you live under a rock (I wonder if they would slide the newspaper under a rock... Yeah, I guess they would.)

Oops - I wrote this on Tuesday and the server crashed or something. So I went looking for entertainment on my friends' blogs and was redirected to a blog to which I got hooked. It is a very sad story from a guy whose wife had flulike symptoms and went to the hospital. After a few days of her getting worse, she almost died. This is a daily diary and it is very moving. It really stays with me. http://www.atomictumor.com/

Boring normal life is so unbelievably cool.