Dear Sunday: a new routine

Dear Sunday is my weekly post participating in the Caffeinated Book Reviewer series. This week I'm also doing a brief Stacking the Shelves and have also linked up with tyngas reviews.

Whew! This past week was the start of the semester, thus the start of both the class I'm taking, and the classes I'm teaching. Annnd on Monday was the solar eclipse! I had a college friend drive 6 hours to stay with me because he wanted to see the totality. Even though I was not the one who drove 12 hours in two days, I have to say, being in the totality was totally worth it (ha ha ha). Right before the totality, it looked like simply a cloudy day (we were beset by clouds but luckily they didn't obscure the totality). To be honest, everything but the actual totality was a bit of a let down-- it merely looked like it was going to rain rather than a magical once-in-a-lifetime event. But the totality? Man. I spent the way-too-short 2.5 min gawking, freaking out, and repeatedly hitting my friend going 'ohmygosh look over there! Did you see that? And that??' And then, suddenly, it was all over.

The next solar eclipse has a path of totality going through my hometown in seven years, so I'm already planning on going home to see that. Seven years, though! Assuming I do two post-doc positions, in seven years I should be 2-3 years into my actual real life career job! That's absurd. Anyway. Let's move away from the existential crisis and talk about books (story of my life, amiright??).

((click on the book to go to the Goodreads page!))

If you remember, last week I showed off three books I had just picked up at the library and I was trying to figure out which one to start first. Well, before I could decide, this digital library hold came in and was automatically downloaded onto my Kindle...so the decision was made for me. I'll post a review of this book on Thursday so stay tuned!

Top Ten Tuesday: Hidden Gems
Review: The Secret by Julie Garwood

That about sums it up! What about you? How was your week? Did you get a chance to see the solar eclipse?

14 comments

Evelina @ AvalinahsBooksAugust 27, 2017 at 9:53 AM
So glad you got to see the totality! I don't think it was much where I'm at because I didn't even notice when it happened (was working...) but I do love half the world away from you so maybe it really wasn't all that much here :)
Laurel-Rain SnowAugust 27, 2017 at 3:22 PM
Since we weren't in the "path," I didn't even try to see it. I didn't have the glasses, either. So it's good that I stayed indoors.

Enjoy your week, and those are great photos of your cat and your walk.

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GregAugust 27, 2017 at 6:18 PM
Glad you had a good eclipse experience! It wasn't totality here but it was still interesting, if a tad bit underwhelming. Still, something to definitely experience.

Love the pics! We have a cat that looks just like that. :)
Nise' August 27, 2017 at 9:47 PM
We were not in the path of totality, but had a good time anyway. Glad you did too. Love those old Julie Garwood books.
Kimberly @ Caffeinated ReviewerAugust 28, 2017 at 9:17 AM
LOL, looking ahead always feels absurd. We were close to totality, and enjoyed watching it. Hope the week ahead is wonderful!
AngelaAugust 28, 2017 at 1:39 PM
We weren't in the path of totality for the eclipse, but we were pretty close. It didn't get dark at all where we were, colors seemed a bit duller and the sunshine wasn't as intensely warm. We had the glasses, though, so we could see what was going on. It was pretty cool!
UnknownAugust 28, 2017 at 5:45 PM
I'm glad you liked it! I wish I could've seen that ~ I looked at some pictures and it's amazing.