Given that I sit in front of a computer for 8 hours every day without stirring (people don't even know if I'm alive or dead back here), I've had to find something other than my work to keep me conscious.
May I recommend:
www.thislife.org (Streaming of This American Life programs with Ira Glass. I've listened to every episode. All 10+ years worth...)
www.radiodiaries.com (This was a great find. The stories produced by this program are both international and national and are quite raw and honest and I'm in love with them.)
www.gutenberg.org (These are books that are now part of the public domain that have been recorded by volunteers. You can listen to them all day long for free. So far I've listend to Lady Susan (an Austen before unknown to me), J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, which had me weeping for having grown up, and now I'm listening to Tristan and Iseult, of which I've heard better versions/translations, but I like the reader.)
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Oooo, excellent suggestions! When I first had Jed, I committed myself to listening to Dante off the Gutenberg... but well, that didn't happen. Now you've renewed my resolution!
I'll have to check out the radio diaries.
And not to harp endlessly, but I do have an intellectual crush on Krista Tippett. When you finish Gutenberg, you could give speakingoffaith.org a try. :c) Her recent Thich Nhat Hanh interview was phenomenal!
(By the way, YOU'RE A NERD!)
Loves,
Your nerdy Sis-i-L
I actually tried to open those interviews at work and it didn't work. I don't have itunes so I tried to stream and I was left speaking-of-faith-less. I must try again...after the raves reviews from you and mom, how can I help myself.
I also found with Gutenberg that I can only listen to the ones read by humans. The computer-read ones are too much...
...and this is what I do with my 8 hours at work...
OH MY GOSH....I listen to T.A.L. all day at work too!!! Man I thought I was the only NPR nerd out there. Moshi always jokes that I talk about Ira like he lived next-door to us.
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