How did I live and work in snowy Vermont? I had my very own pair of snowmobile boots with liners. My car spent 6 months dead in the driveway. I had to be picked up by a guy from work who offered me a beer at 6 AM. I drove a Snocat and a Bombardier on Killington Mountain in the early 70's. I was the first woman to do so.
Just finished a book I read because it was recommended in an article in the New Yorker, from February 13 & 20, 2012. The custom of the country was written by Edith Wharton during the years she was preparing to forsake the United States permanently (1913).Undine Spragg is ambitious and greedy. As quoted in the New Yorker, "she anticipates two other hallmarks of modern American society, the obliteration of all social distinctions by money and the hedonic treadmill of materialism. In Undine's world, everything an be bought, and none of it will ever be enough." She visits several continents and has a few husbands and is selfish throughout. I learned a good word..."the auriferous world of the Degens...." (meaning containing gold)
Had an "assessment" at the health club. I was sort of dreading it, as I feel like my input is always going to equal my output, no matter what I do. And also because I want to do what I want to do and not what someone else recommends that I do. But it was an encouraging experience. The guy made me feel like progress COULD be made if I would just agree to working up a sweat. I told him that I have a problem with my attention span and that I do not like to sweat.
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