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| Oook. I think I've read too much.
I just had a very physically violent reaction against something I read,
completely uncontrollably. I feel sick to my stomach still, and
while I was reading, I finally reached a point where I had
convulsions. I just kicked at my wall. I was (and am) that
incensed by what I was reading.
Oh dear. I think I need fresh air.
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| I have commitment issues - commitment to books, that is. It's really hard for me to pick just one book and stick with it if I don't devote a day or two solely to reading that book.
That's not to say that I don't finish books I start. I'd say I finish about 75% or more of the books I really get into (here "really get into" is defined as roughly a quarter of the book). I just have a hard time only reading that one book, or even just that one book plus the books I'm required to read for class.
Like right now, for example. The books on my list to read and/or contemplate (school books requiring contemplation in addition to reading) include:
-12th Night
-Ways of Seeing
-5 Paths to the Love of Your Life
-When People are Big and God is Small
-Naked Pictures of Famous People
-I Suffer Not A Woman (A closer look at 1st Timothy)
-The Bible (Listed last, but certainly not the least, for clarification.)
It's not that I'm not interested in any of the books either. The problem is that I'm really quite devoted to all of them, so I can't justify spending all of my time one just one of them.
The other problem is that I don't want to do anything else, other than read. I also have a whole stack of books lined up waiting to be added to the pile.
Mmmmm bibliophilia.
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California Gov. Schwarzenegger's office is accepting calls from
anywhere regarding their marriage equality bill. It passed both houses
of their legislature, but needs the Governor's approval. It's all
automated, so you don't have to talk to anyone.
Follow these directions:
1. Call the Governor: 916-445-2841 (This number is listed at www.governor.ca.gov)
2.
Push: 2 (voice your opinion on legislation)you don't actually have to
voice your opinion, this is just what the automated recording says)
3. Push: 1 (gender-neutral marriage bill - Senate Bill 849)
4. And push: 1 to support marriage equality
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| I used to have long hair. Today I thought I'd get a trim. Trims are nice.
When my mom saw it, I asked my usual question, the one I ask every time
I get a hair cut. I have strange perceptions about my hair and
have this odd tendency to get emotionally attached to every inch.
So I asked my mom if it was still long, right? She always says yes. It's always still long.
She paused. "I think I'd describe it as medium length."
This is not sitting well with me.
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| I'm still binging on Jane Austen. I feel I owe the world an explanation.
See, I ran out of reading material, and my Stanford Summer Reading List
doesn't arrive for another week and a half, so I asked my mom for a
good book, and she handed me the Kite Runner.
Apparently it is a really good book, and the first sixty pages or so
were really good. And then there was a rape scene that forced me
to abandon the book and go into a frantic search for the lightest,
happiest, fluffiest books I could locate. And hence, we arrive at
Jane Austen. Jane Austen is the antithesis of rape. No one
even holds hands without an engagement ring, let alone attempt anything
else without a wedding.
As an aside, the night before last someone forked my car with 48
Albertson's spoons. I don't care that it was technically
"spooned" rather than "forked". Forking is now the general term
used to describe the act of filling someone's car or living space with
cutlery. I can't for the life of me figure out who did it
though. I can't help but think it was a novice given that:
(a) There were only 48, not 350
(b) They were spoons
(c) Anne-Marie was out of town
(d) My sister was out of town and
(e) I don't think Kelsey would do this on her own.
Oh, and I certainly didn't fork my own car.
So who else forks cars in this town?
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