At the beginning of every new semester, my shelves are graced with the delicate smells of the paper factory and the used bookstore. Thick textbooks and reprints of novels I haven’t read come in waves through our mail system, and even two weeks in I am still receiving packages loaded down with titles like And […]
There once was a girl who wanted to read all the books in the world. She believed sincerely that she could chew her way through book after book, never re-reading and never looking back. She would read the good with the bad, the classics with the post-modern, and eventually conquer all the material there was […]
I have long since given up my maxim “never start a book at night.”There are just so many books to read! Both for class and for pleasure, late into the night we are glued to the pages of text. But that makes me feel great sometimes because it is an accomplishment to finish each little […]
440 pages.That was the amount that I read in three days here. Not that I’m complaining, because it was for really enjoyable classes and I expected this semester to be harder than the last, but still! It feels like an astronomical calculation – amazingly, though I do wonder at it, I do not want to […]
This is such the more epic tennis shot than the one they gave me for sports photos! (Curse those fools! They cut out my multi-colored socks!)Anyway, I have been reading a lot of blogs, articles, and things-that-generally-aren’t-books in the past few days and realizing: they’re just as valuable. I have not had the urge to […]
Mother Picture Dictionary is back! Mother was my word today – apparently the reason that it sounds so similar cross-culturally is because there are root words for it in many of the base languages (mat in Sanskrit and mater in Latin, etc.) according to Word Nerd. I had always wondered about that actually… not sure […]
I feel like such a whiner. Though I am still fairly down, I have buoyed myself up on a raft of progress and am no longer spiraling into terror. Hooray? So I must now list some “magical cures” for sudden depressive flashes:– Take a walk– Narrate your life [preferably as you walk, with a friend […]
In all the days of my stringent Goal of the Month to write 250 words per day, yesterday was my failing. I simply completely totally forgot about it all. So, instead of panicking and jettisoning the entire thing, I am resolved to write 500 words today. Aha!As it stands, I think I am going to […]
Five hours until I am supposed to go to bed and I have… a lot of stuff that I want to do before then. So, this probably will be brief. Probably.I have lost 3.8 pounds! And I am pretty happy about it because that gets me back to my original weight of about 140. That […]
I wrote too much yesterday. So today I am just going to say exactly what I want.I want TIME TO READ! Check out some more posts featuring my photography.