Coming Home to Kansas

Holiday greetings, all. What's everyone up to this Thanksgiving? My parents are coming tomorrow, but I don't have to cook because we're all going to see Topher's family up in Naperville (Chicago suburb) on Thursday.

And as of this week, we're a month away from our approaching reunion. What's the plan? Can you tell I'm just a little eager?

A day late, I know. Did anyone do anything cool? Not us, per usual. I think we had five groups of trick or treaters while we crashed on the couch with some Chinese take out and more Veronica Mars.

More exciting for me (and something completely unrelated to Halloween) is that I got my teaching assignment for the spring. I get to teach a women writers course! I spent yesterday afternoon tracking down ISBN numbers for the novels I want to assign and writing up the course description. I am planning a theme of women writing utopian/dystopian communities -- it's loosely-based on a class I once took myself -- and I already have a range of 6-7 books, medieval to modern. I would like to add something different to the mix -- any good suggestions? (This is also a ploy to find out if anyone has read anything good lately -- and I know we're all insanely busy, but I get my best book recommendations from this group, so I'm always wondering.)

have a good November 1