Democracy & Bread bowls

Mike and I took advantage of "early voting" at the Champaign County Clerk's office and did our civic duty on Martin Luther King, Jr. day. After we came out of the ballot boxes Michael wanted to know who I voted for! I informed him that voting is private and confidential and it has to be that way for our democracy to survive. Later that evening we went bowling. Mike still isn't sure who I voted for.


The picture below is dedicated to Rachel Terry Lund, who made it possible. She gave us the recipe for these excellent bread bowls that looked so lovely I had to take a picture of them. We had a couple over to dinner on Saturday night and had mulligatawny soup in bread bowls, a fun game of Uno Spin (I lost) and Skookies for dessert. Good times.


What I'm reading:
Getting Things Done by David Allen. I'm actually reading this for work because I'm helping to teach a workshop on keeping all of your research organized and we're using this guy's method. I think it's pretty useful.
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles. Garth told me a few months ago that he was reading this, and I was intrigued. Now I'm about halfway through and it's a really fascinating history of libraries that starts with the ancient world and the Alexandria library in Egypt.
What's up next:
Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. These are two sci fi, cyberpunk novels recommended by the professor for my class Library, Information, and Society. I'm pretty interested.