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Like virtually everyone else on my friends list, I am having a lazy Sunday. That's the best kind.

We went out for breakfast this morning (eggs Benedict!) and since then I have read, napped, played on the computer (ltlbird's suggestion of Pop and Drop is fun and addictive) and crocheted. And eaten steadily, of course. I'm determined not to have them freak out at my next appointment because I haven't been gaining weight. Is that twisted or what? When I'm supposed to gain weight, I don't. Yeah.

I was also going to report that I read another book I felt like mentioning (along with a handful of others in the past week that I simply couldn't couldn't get into, or get through, including The Secret Life of Bees, and The Gilded Chamber, the latter of which I did enjoy for the first two-thirds but then got bored with - how do you get bored 2/3s of the way into a book??? I rapidly skimmed to see how the last 50 pages went, but wasn't invested enough to spend the time really reading it).

Pledged by Alexandra Robbins - I got the title from thicky, who read it recently. It's an undercover expose of sororities. Having gone to a school with none, I know virtually nothing about them, but it seemed like a potentially interesting topic, and I ended up quite enjoying the book. She had to do her research undercover because the national sorority organizations wouldn't let her do it out in the open. She found 4 girls willing to talk and share, and then follows them for a year. So - you get gossipy sections of here's what they did the week of Homecoming, blah blah, and then she breaks away for analysis on a major theme that has popped up, such as alcohol on campus. (If you have a voyeuristic streak, the gossipy sections are way fun. *grin*) My only other comment - I'd like to thank my 16/17-year-old self for somehow deciding that sororities were just something I did not want to be around, and picking colleges to apply to partly based on that criterion. Based on what she writes in this book - I never would have gotten into a sorority (for one thing, I don't have the right "look", nor do I dress in designer clothes), and I'd hate to have ever been in a place where that kind of acceptance mattered.

I've also read a lot of What to Expect When You're Expecting (everyone's favorite book) today - the last few chapters on the third trimester (I'm almost there!) and the chapters on childbirth (eeep). I've been signing up right and left for baby-related classes at our hospital - they have tons. We'll be doing a lot of those throughout December and into January, it looks like.