trust falls

Staff retreat yesterday...painless enough but I felt like I was back in a lecture hall, listening to lots of people dole out important information but not truly engaged. Yes yes listening is an important skill and I know two ears, one mouth et cetera...but for goodness sake, if someone asks you a question (and not a rhetorical one!) then it's a lot harder to yawn. Just sayin.

BUT we got out at 2 and I had a glorious freebie afternoon! Ran an errand in the car and decided that my own voice was far more entertaining than anything on the radio, and I sorely missed Kara's karaoke machine. Maybe I'll invent Kar-aoke - where you can do karaoke while driving. DMB "Crash" would be top on the list. And "Ring of Fire." Har har.

Finished "The Book of Air and Shadows." It had a disappointingly happy ending. Really. Gruber pansied out. I wanted him to go for it - half a dozen people get tortured throughout the book, and another dozen or so are killed...but he doesn't describe much of it! There's a scene where someone's brains end up on a coffee table, and he just kind of brushes over the description. He didn't embrace the gore. He's billed as a "thriller" author, and I was not thrilled. Entertained, but not thrilled.