JD and other stuff

“The Catcher in the Rye" - I had quite the relationship with that book as a teenager. In fact, every semester during high school, when I was supposed to be studying for my final exams, I would be in my room reading "The Catcher in the Rye." That said, I must have read it almost a full eight times.
 
Reason seems to escape me, but for some odd sense I apparently related to Holden. I don't believe it was the catcher’s mitt when he attempted to save the little kids from going over the cliff, but still I did feel empathy with the character.

Now the creator JD Salinger has left us. He might have been another person I could relate to, now that I know he "dropped" out and lead a reclusive life for the past 50 years. I can say, however, that I have read most of his books ("Nine Stories," "Franny and Zooey" and "Raise High the Roof Beams"). I do recall being somewhat disappointed after "Catcher" when I read "Franny and Zooey" and the characters had changed, but I did devour all of them.

Today was another day of searching for job leads. Tomorrow I start my volunteer duties at the SWE conference in Champaign (tomorrow afternoon/evening and Saturday midday to evening). Who knows, volunteering could lead to a job - one never knows.

As for training - currently on the "back burner." Can't run very effectively with a head cold. Hopefully, this will take a major turn for the better and all will be well by tomorrow.

"What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye