Work...

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. - Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011

Sweet Tooth...

I just read the first volume of the graphic novel Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire. Lemire is a brilliant comic book storytelling; I'm not sure I like his art, but it's strong and expressive, and the story is compelling and disturbing.



It's the story of Gus, a human-deer hybrid (or a boy who looks like a deer), raised alone by his Dad in a cabin in the middle of the woods. Gus has never seen another human, but he knows they exist, even after a plague killed most people. His father, a Bible-reading vegetarian, has made him promise never to leave the woods. Outside the woods, he said, there is disease - everyone dies, as Gus's mother died. And there are bad men.

But when his Dad dies, Gus goes out of the woods, because he doesn't want to be alone. He certainly encounters bad men. He starts to travel with a rough, gruff, tough man named Jeppard - who looks like Cable and fights like Wolverine. No, not with claws, but leaving a trail of blood behind him... So much of the book is about an innocent in danger, that I found it difficult to read. But I still plan to find the next volume: this ends on a cliffhanger.

One site describes the book as Bambi meets The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Wikipedia calls it "a post-apocalyptic parable", though what it's a parable of, I have yet to see.

Shoes...

Over the past few days my back has been bothering me - not seriously, but enough to make me conscientious about doing my back exercises daily, and enough to make me wonder why it was hurting again after having felt good for a while.

Then I realized that the soles of my shoes were wearing down - that has caused me back pain before. And the doctor told me I should get new shoes every six months or so, to avoid this kind of problem. I have been wearing those shoes (Privo Polar Snow) most of the time since I bought them -they've been my summer walking shoes.

So yesterday I went to my favourite shoe store, Glebe Trotters, and as soon as I walked in I fell in love with a pair of boots: Clark's Orinocco Jump. I didn't get them. They cost $215.00 and I don't need new boots. But I haven't forgotten them, either.

I bought the newer model of the shoes I've been wearing and loving all summer, the Privo Vesper; and instead of getting the black - I think I'm in a rut there - they're grey with burgundy trim. No, excuse me, it's actually "eggplant":



These will be my new indoor shoes for the winter. They're as comfortable and wonderful as the ones that are wearing out. Call me a happy shopper.