It's Warming Up---For A Day

Woke up later, around 7:40 and it was 30 degrees outside, quite a drastic change from yesterday's 9 degrees.  It means a slushy, unattractive day, lots of dirty white snow, overcast skies, and icy roads, depending on whether it rains or snows.  It's supposed to get back to snowy weather tonight.  This seems to be the worst part of winter up here, the brief changes to warm weather, that mucks up everything, the snow, the activities, and then it snows again.  Since we returned on January 4th, we have been able to enjoy the outdoors everyday, without a relapse to warm weather.  We watched a new series, recommended as the top new series by New York magazine called Community, set at a community college in the West, with a cast of seemingly misfits, and even Chevy Chase was a older student returning to school, along with I think seven others, a lawyer who lied on his resume, an Asian/Middle eastern, a black athlete/hipster, and heavy set black girl and, of course, the requisite hotty.  We watched two of the shows and turned it off, deciding it was too silly, not will written enough to continue. The plot moves from silly, to ridiculous, but ends up somehow with a message, like Glee does, but not any where near as well.  I did hear that Kurt, the gay teenager on Glee received the best supporting actor award for Glee.  He is amazing real and talented, well deserving, and the only one on the cast who never had previous professional action experience, coming straight out of high school.  The rest of the main players are all in their early twenties.  Enough of  Entertainment Today.

I finished the young adult book IF I STAY by Gayle Forman and I enjoyed it immensely, though it's a tragic story revolving around the protagonist, Mia, the narrator, her family, her love of music, especially the cello, her teenager friends, and her love for Adam, her boyfriend and lead singer in an upcoming punk band.  It's an interesting narration, which I won't talk more about because I don't want to ruin the story if any one wants to read it.  I recommend it highly, for high school juniors and up though younger kids would enjoy it as well but the subject matter may be a mature.  No sex though so that should relieve most of up tight Americans.