I am nervous about internships for the summer. I have instead put off applications today and yesterday to read Annie Dillard's "An American Childhood" and to watch Jack Black and Will Ferrell comedies with my siblings. Every home-grown Pittsburgher or acclimated Pittsburgh lover (my category) should read this!

“When everything else has gone from my brain what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that.”

She describes her childhood while detailing her surroundings closely from a kid's perspective. It's amazing to see how Pittsburgh has changed in only a few decades. I'd like to put this book in the hands of some friends who have grown up going to the Catholic and Shadyside Academy schools.

Tomorrow I'll return to applying to places far away.