Proud

Today I changed a tire for the first time! Yesterday I tried and the lug nuts just wouldn't budge, but today I decided to jump on them, and they cranked right off. The rest was actually really easy. Still, I feel like I've become a different category of person now: a Person Who Can Fix a Flat. Just call me if you need me.

I'm continuing my genre fiction odyssey, and can report that John Le Carre's "The Night Manager" is awesome at first but ultimately kind of unsatisfying. I never thought that grad school would really change my relationship with reading but it actually has made me more reluctant to read anything literary outside of "work." It's unfortunate, but still, even if it's a mystery or or whatever, having a novel that I'm reading makes life so much better. I should start another one, stat.