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Oct. 8th, 2011 12:21 pmI've been a lousy poster, lately. Sorry, internet peeps. I stare at computer screens so much at work that when I get home it's the last thing I want to do. Ironically, what I do instead is stare at a Kindle screen. Didn't ever say I made sense.
Today, though, the books left on my Kindle are not inspiring:
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore (not too interesting yet)
Manual of Zen Buddhism by Suzuki (good, of course, but requires more concentration than i can muster today)
Idiot America; How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (super depressing, of course)
plus some other ones I haven't gotten into yet:
Raising Jake
Sweetness in the Belly
The Gates of November
Turn Left at the Trojan Horse
and Fight Club: A novel. That one is kind of a lark. When I was doing that self defense class that the cops taught at our school I enjoyed the idea of being part of a secret fighting society. I'm kind of curious what's in that book. I never saw the movie.
Anyway, that's been my life lately: lots and lots of books. I think it's a reaction from being free of my statistics class which soaked up every second of my life this summer. I don't know how people do it, to take class after class each semester. I'm taking this semester off. I end up resenting SO MUCH the infringement into my free time that it's hard to force myself to sign up for another one. I'm hoping to resume in the spring.
I have a recalcitrant, rebellious mind. I have been trying to get my ridiculous brain to settle down and finish my application to grad school (yes, the one I started a year ago). I will someday. I just have to grow into that decision first. I'm almost there, but not quite.
Speaking of fighting, today I'm fighting off the flu and not doing a good job of it. The 60 year old lady who gave it to me managed to fight it off, so I still have hope. I'm doing EVERYTHING she told me to do: lots of sleep, lots of orange juice, multivitamins, smoothies. I think I might be losing though, my whole body is sore. You know how that goes. No fever though, maybe it will be over by tomorrow.
What are my big plans, you ask? Indeed. That is always the question. I'm not going to get anywhere with that one today.
Today, though, the books left on my Kindle are not inspiring:
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore (not too interesting yet)
Manual of Zen Buddhism by Suzuki (good, of course, but requires more concentration than i can muster today)
Idiot America; How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (super depressing, of course)
plus some other ones I haven't gotten into yet:
Raising Jake
Sweetness in the Belly
The Gates of November
Turn Left at the Trojan Horse
and Fight Club: A novel. That one is kind of a lark. When I was doing that self defense class that the cops taught at our school I enjoyed the idea of being part of a secret fighting society. I'm kind of curious what's in that book. I never saw the movie.
Anyway, that's been my life lately: lots and lots of books. I think it's a reaction from being free of my statistics class which soaked up every second of my life this summer. I don't know how people do it, to take class after class each semester. I'm taking this semester off. I end up resenting SO MUCH the infringement into my free time that it's hard to force myself to sign up for another one. I'm hoping to resume in the spring.
I have a recalcitrant, rebellious mind. I have been trying to get my ridiculous brain to settle down and finish my application to grad school (yes, the one I started a year ago). I will someday. I just have to grow into that decision first. I'm almost there, but not quite.
Speaking of fighting, today I'm fighting off the flu and not doing a good job of it. The 60 year old lady who gave it to me managed to fight it off, so I still have hope. I'm doing EVERYTHING she told me to do: lots of sleep, lots of orange juice, multivitamins, smoothies. I think I might be losing though, my whole body is sore. You know how that goes. No fever though, maybe it will be over by tomorrow.
What are my big plans, you ask? Indeed. That is always the question. I'm not going to get anywhere with that one today.
