I am posting this screen-shot of the weather forecast today. This time tomorrow it is supposed to be 50 degrees cooler. Craziness. The all time low temperature for Austin in May is something like 42 degrees, and it is possibly going to break that record. Not supposed to freeze here, but there are freeze warnings for the Hill Country, west of us.
Today was a good day of sitting in the office. Lots of accomplishments were made, and that was a good thing. For the first day of the month, it was amazingly not crazy, so I think it is important to count your blessings about that.
I am reading a (maybe yes maybe no) interesting book called The Painted Girls. It is about, well here is the review I copied off the Internet:
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris.
1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir.
Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde.
Interesting (I really am a fan of Degas) but tough to keep up with. There are three narrators of the story, and you have to pay attention, but overall it is a pretty interesting (and probably accurate) description of life in Paris over a century ago.
Tomorrow will hopefully be a good day as well; a couple meetings in the morning, and luncheon in the late morning and then back to the office in the afternoon.
What can I say? Life is good!
Deeds, Actions, Changes, DEGAS, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!
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