So for right now I'm mostly just playing the waiting game. I'm due in two days, but that doesn't really mean much. It would be lovely if I didn't have to wait much longer after that. I did have a friend tell me, though, that the old saying is, "The first baby's either two weeks early or two weeks late." Yikes!
In the meantime we've been getting everything in order here. The apartment's mostly organized except for a few things here and there--but all in all it's livable. The dishwasher wasn't working for a few weeks (gah!!) but they've finally come and fixed it. Yay! I've been spending some of my spare time reading about investing, a subject which I think appeals to me because of my background in math (I told myself I was taking a break; apparently I was wrong).
How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett
is a book I picked up at the library, mostly because our library doesn't have Graham's
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
, believe it or not (most of the investing books up there are of the "get rich quick with our strategy" type, which doesn't appeal easily to someone who has studied statistics). I've enjoyed it a lot, though. It's probably not for someone only casually interested in the subject, because it contains a lot of mathematical concepts (albeit rather simple ones) that would drive others away. Being more comfortable with them myself, I sort of wish it were written more as a math textbook, with example financial statements and so on, and not so conceptually-oriented, but it's really just meant to be a primer, so this would probably be unnecessary.
I'd also like to draw some attention to
Print & Pattern, which is just about the coolest blog I've come across in a while. It's incredibly prolific, so you can spend hours reading through it, which is good when you need inspiration. It's full of patterns and pattern artists that come from all over the world, and I've discovered several new artists though it. It's definitely worth a look, even if you're not an artist.
ETA: When did
scans_daily get deleted?!?! How did I miss this?