The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

I'm writing this book up over three months after I finished reading it.
It did not stick with me the way that many other books that I've read have, and therefore I think I may have missed some of the beauty or art inherent in the author's creation. For some reason it simply did not resonate with me.

It also may have been the setting in which I read the book, often while falling asleep. I used it to separate myself from the pressures of my day and allow my mind to settle before sleep each night.

The incest that occurs near the end of the book surprised me, and left me thinking more about how so many cultures have developed taboos against incest. The actual level of inbreeding necessary to perpetuate genetic abnormalities is pretty high, needing to "self-cross" multiple generations sequentially. How did we develop such an aversion?

A day in the life

Well I'll just tell you about today (while I sit in a rather dry lecture about how health prevention guidelines are made)

0645 wake up and get some breakfast
0730 meeting with 3 other classmates about the 5k race that we're organizing. Race on April 14th so getting down to crunch time.
0800 lecture on immunology and how our body defends itself from bacteria with flagellum.
0900, another lecture, which I've forgotten at the moment.
1000 out for a run in the beautiful sun along the Genessee river.
1100 library for studying
1200 honor board teaching session where I proposed bringing the honor code back into the hands of the students. It's so much easier to prevent change than make change.
1300 lecture on breast cancer
1400 lecture on colon cancer
1500 lecture on preventative services (that i'm sitting in now)
hope to be out by 1630
then I'll play violin with E (we're working on Prokofiev)
1830 will call Bolivia to arrange my host family for the first half of the summer
1900 will go volunteer with a dr. and two other students to provide health screenings at a local homeless clinic.
2100 home and eat dinner.
Then study a bit of spanish, do a little cleanup and go to bed.

Not sure if it's a typical day, but certainly not boring