– I just finished reading “The Reapers Are the Angels” and cried when I turned the last page. Yes, it was about zombies. But it was really good. The author is a high school teacher in New York City. The focus of the story is a fifteen-year old girl, born after the apocalypse, who moves about the wasteland with a special eye to the beauty in the world and a kind of survivor’s wisdom. They really need to make a movie out of this book. And they need to cast the chick from Winter’s Bone. Except she is too old now. But someone similar.
I am reading “The Walking Dead” comics series as well, and it too has a sense of people building back up after the catastrophe, which is something the author of Reapers mentioned in an interview. Although the apocalypse has happened, everyone is able to start over, becoming raiders or wasteland doctors or hunters where they were just office workers before. Come to think of it, “Fallout 3” had the same feel, only it was a nuclear war that led to that particular horror.
– Continuing with the night shift. It is going well. I sleep from 12 to 8 or 1 to 9pm. In the morning I get coffee at the new Urban Bean on Lyndale or just make it at home and enjoy the sun coming out. The mornings are really cold nowadays.
– My abnormal psych class is going well. It is very much based on the text and is pretty straightforward. I start my microbiology class with lab and my lifespan growth and development class next week, which will require more travel. Once again they are all classes I tried to take as an undergrad but could not because the sections were always full. I bought the textbooks, too. Only 400 bucks.
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