it's magical

The Lost Symbol arrived for me at the library today!  Some magic must have conspired to get me that book before my book club meeting next week because last I looked I was number 700-something in line.  Thank you, magic.


And, yes, there's a Natalie Dee comic for every occasion.

all it takes is a little sunshine

Finally, some progress.  It was a nice warm day so I got to sit outside after work and read.  There were only a few distractions: a head filled with too much caffeine, a hawk ripping apart something dead right behind me, the normal beggars (seriously, I’m not giving you $1.25 for the bus), some boys that thought I was funny (I was not funny).  But I read, and that's the point.  I even enjoyed some of it.  Here's a part I particularly liked (page 111):

By the time the rains came at the end of June, the fetus was fully formed inside her womb.  Knees and nose were present; and as many heads as would grow were already in position.  What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book -- perhaps an encyclopedia -- even a whole language...

Punctuation babies ... I like it.

What's the forecast for tomorrow?

um, so 2011 is looking pretty awesome

So I'm averaging about one page of reading a day. At this rate, I will finish on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. That's 429 days from now in case you're counting.*

Hey, I said I'd finish, right? I didn't promise it would be this year ... or next.

*I wasted an hour of potential reading time to do this. Well, 10 minutes to math/google/write, and 50 minutes to look at Natalie Dee comics... 

On why I am a horrible reader and what I plan on doing about it.

I promise to finish my book.

I promise to finish my book.

I promise to finish my book.

Boo on me.  I’m bad at this.  It’s hard to read when there’s road trips to go on, and bands to see, and TV to watch (The Vampire Diaries anyone?  Soooo good.).  But I will finish this book, I promise.  Maybe it’s finally getting interesting.  On page 98.  Maybe maybe???  Ugh.