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July 2nd is National Unemployment Day, a day set aside to celebrate the joys of not having to go to a job.  The-day-to-day grind of job hunting is a miserable, humbling experience, and National Unemployment Day is the one day to blow off your job search and take a holiday in the middle of the week. It is a day to mock cubicle trolls who daydream at the nearest window.  To giggle at the suckers slaving away in Wal Mart. To finally stop envying the postperson who gets to work in shorts.

Six months earlier I had decided to explore the diamond market. SHE had been a little PMSy, drinking wine in the afternoon, knitting and watching “Titanic.” I can’t remember how the subject was broached but it we usually have an argument around the time when Kate lets Leo drown. Somehow I had said something or said something similar to the word “wedding” or “marriage.” Breading? Carriage? I dunno, but the response was definite:

“Yeah, so what’s the fucking holdup?”

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Because I'm turning forty this year and I'm not about to take up physical activity, I have set out to read 75 books in 2009.
I've tried to read books that "count", thorny books I've been meaning to read but were intimidated by.
I'm at around 54 right now, and I'm working on two right now, Fooled by Randomness and The Trouble with Testosterone.

Here's everything I've knocked down to date: