Beyond Selidor

When I go into details about the circus job, it's less exciting — I worked on the concession stand at a Cirque du Soleil show, selling snacks and drinks during the intermission. It wasn't bad work, as far as these kinds of jobs go, though.

We had to read Nineteen Eighty-Four for school when I was a teenager, and until I was an adult, that was the only thing of his that I read, but during those months at my dad's I read most of his nonfiction (he was a journalist/book reviewer, and there are lots of collections of his reviews and essays), and several of his other novels.