Today's Big Excitement
I spent two hours at Pep Boys waiting for a tire to be replaced. Sat in the "Customer Waiting" section on a plastic seat and read The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion (which won the National Book Award for nonfiction last year). It's a book by a woman so grief-stricken she can't think straight, but still, somehow, writes pitch-perfect, deadpan prose of diamond-like perfection. It made the time pass while the other customers slept, stared into space or watched What I Like About You on TV.
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