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talking with women After reading what I said yesterday, a thought came to my mind. One might wonder why I only talk with women in class. Well, putting aside the fact that they are more attractive to me than men, I think that there are only three other men in the class besides myself. Of course that is nothing unusual for an English class. I also failed to mention that yesterday was my last class before the break. ... I think that signs of old age are starting to set in for me. Besides the travel books I walked away with an audio book when I left the library on Thursday. It was a copy of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. I own a paperback copy of the book, but haven't been able to find the time to read it so I thought that it would be a good choice. Now on my commute to and from work, I get to hear Elizabeth McGovern telling me the story and I am seriously enjoying it. One review on Amazon calls her accent mesmerizing and I think that I would have to agree. Listening to her takes the edge off of the drive and I wish that I had done the audio book thing sooner since I hate radio so much. I would much rather be told a good story than listen to some moronic disc jockey or hear some annoying advertisements. I also seem to be getting tired of my music so a book is a nice change of pace. I remember seeing Elizabeth McGovern in the movie Ragtime many years ago and falling in love with her at the time. If I am correct there was a scene where she is topless for most of it, but I could be wrong. Being eleven or twelve at the time that was something that I didn't see every day and from what I have read now she must have been twenty at the time. I also remember her in the film Once Upon a Time in America where she was just as striking. Seeing McGovern years later in Wings of the Dove and even more recently in The House of Mirth took me by surprise. I know that she was never a big name actress, but I thought that she had quietly disappeared from the big screen. ... When I told my buddy Nicole about my listening to an audio book she arched her eyebrow and said that I was taking the book thing a little too far. The idea didn't really appeal to her and I can understand. Up until this week I had never given it that much thought either. I always thought that I would prefer to read a book rather than having one read to me. Now I know that I like having both options. Another sign of old age is my sudden liking for iced tea. In my mind coffee and tea are old people drinks. Yes, I know that it has been trendy for years for twenty something people to drink either one of those beverages, but coffee has never appealed to me.
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