Vacation

I'm leaving in less than 12 hours for San Francisco. I haven't packed yet, but I'm pretty fast at it. I dropped Audrey off at Matt and Natalie's house, where she will get to play with beagles for hours and hours. Natalie called me and said that Audrey cried at the door when I left. Poor puppy! She'll have fun soon enough. It's heartwarming to know how much my dog loves me. It's very quiet in the apartment without her, I may be scared tonight without my thug dog watching over the place.

My schedule in SF so far includes a Thanksgiving pot luck tomorrow, party with coworkers Friday, dinner with family Saturday, and stopping by old job Monday. Otherwise it will be a lot of food, walking, shopping, wandering my old favorite spots. It'll be great.

I got another book today, fiction this time. The book is Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a collection of short stories by Murakami. I'm not a big short story fan because I like to get really involved with the characters in long books (probably way Anna Karenina is my favorite book). However, Murakami is one of my favorite authors and I want to read everything he has ever written.