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These Are the Things I Think About

What's been on my mind as of late...

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These Are the Things I Think About


No shocker here: basketball. After moving the San Francisco, I got League Pass, so I could watch my Houston Rockets. But, I've also ended up watching a lot of random games, specifically West Coast games. I always like to have a little background noise while I'm doing work, and basketball has quickly become my replacement for baseball since that season has ended. So, like I said, I've been watching a lot of West Coast basketball, specifically the Los Angeles Lakers, which I feel slightly guilty about. I've grown up a quasi-Celtics fan because my mom is from Boston, so I do feel bad every time I choose watching a Lakers game over any other game. They are supposed to be the enemy! Nonetheless, this new Lakers team has become so interesting to me that I look forward to actually sitting down and watching their games as opposed to just having them on as background noise. Every aspect of this team fascinates me; my new favorite player Josh Hart, to the Lebron as a role model to all the young guys, Tyson Chandler coming out of nowhere, and Rajon Rondo (a former Boston Celtic).


Josh Hart Full Highlights 2018.11.07 Lakers vs TWolves - 21 Pts, 5-7 3PM! | FreeDawkinswww.youtube.com


A couple of my other favorite basketball stories this season have been Giannis on the Bucks as he leads in the MVP odds for this season, the evolving Jimmy Butler trade fiasco, and continuing rise of Klay Thompson on the Warriors. These days, the news cycle for just about everything moves so fast, and it's hard to keep track of everything that is going on because there is so much more information available, so these are the stories that I've been keeping tabs on. The season is still young, and I know these stories might not even be considered the biggest stories of the season when all is said and done, but I've been having a lot of fun watching random games; I've even become invested in a team I was born to hate!


Klay Thompson UNREAL NBA RECORD 14 Threes! 2018.10.29 vs Bulls - 52 Pts in 3 Quarters!www.youtube.com


The next thing that I've been thinking about lately, really something that's been plaguing my mind, are all the books that I have that I haven't read. I met my reading goal on Goodreads over the summer, and I've been in a sort of reading slump ever since. I finally finished a book that I had been stuck for over 2 months (A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue), and now I'm working on the sequel (Archenemies) to one of my favorite reads of this year (Renegades). Also, in an effort to pull myself out of this slump, I went to one of my favorite bookstores in San Francisco, the Booksmith on Haight, and picked up two new books, even though I really, really need to stop buying books. I got Richard Nixon: A Life and Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit. The CNN docuseries the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, and 2000s are some of my favorite things to re-watch, especially the episode on Watergate. The reviews for the Nixon book were pretty good, so I decided to go for it. It's also spurred me to want to re-watch All the Presidents Men. The Bobby Kennedy purchase stems from my continued fascination with all things Kennedy, and the author, Chris Matthews, wrote one of my favorite JFK biographies that I used for a research paper.

A completely unrelated book that I'm also excited to finally pick up is What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. What If It's Us is a YA based on a meet-cute in a post-office, so obviously very similar to Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy. Albertalli and Silvera are two of my favorite authors, and Silvera wrote some of my favorite reads of the year (History Is All You Left Me, They Both Die At the End, More Happy Than Not). I've always been a one book at a time kind of girl, but my goal for the rest of November is to try to always be reading two different books: one nonfiction and one fiction. We'll see if I end up changing my goal on Goodreads for the year; the original goal was 40, and I've currently read 45, so I might change it to 50.

Here's to more basketball and more books!

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