And may you return to your classes in the fall (maniacal laughter)
On Friday last week I graduated. Then I had my open house (which, despite my idiocy in not handing out more invitations, went very well). Then on Saturday the fun began - Not Justin coming and spending the weekend (though that was cool) but I GOT TO REALLY READ.
You see, I am an addict to reading - do you remember Dale's post where he told the world that he was getting himself high on reading? Well I understood that post and didn't understand why that was different than normal life. I inhale books - I'll read a 300 page book in about 2 hours. I can read all day, most of the night and then all day the next day and I love it. So I
've read about 10 books since Saturday. (Note: this is why I haven't blogged - reading takes precedence over any other form of enjoyment. [note on the Note: this is probably a good reason why I don't have a girlfriend]). So I've read 4-5 Sc-Fi books, 2-3 novels, a little C.S. Lewis, a little Piper, getting ready to read Rob Bell and J.D. Salinger and all is right with the world. I feel like I've been climbing a roller-coaster hill for the past three years and I'm finally over the top and getting to enjoy that humongous hill.So I feel sorry for you, you pitiful peons wasting your summers away with cheap movies, days at the beach, hanging with friends etc. etc. etc. Because you have missed out on the greatest enjoyment of all - a good book, no stupid interruptions, fresh air, warm sunlight, ahhhhhhh I 'm relaxed just writing about it. The best thing about it is that in August I know what you did last summer. But me . . . . I've been so far out of space, time, mind, imagination, to Xanadu and back, that nobody can ever take my journey away or trivialize it. It is completely unique and unparalled.
Now goodbye - I've got a book to read.
(there are three movie references buried in my last, real paragraph. If you can find them [one is easier than the others] [one is relatively recent, the other is both new and old, the last one is from a movie so important that everyone in America should be required to write a doctoral thesis on it, and most people don't even know it exists.] you get 10000 points --- even though the points don't matter. )
6 comments:
i know this is probably a huge fault onmy part but, i HATE reading! i don think i can ever compleatly understand the attraction.
The best part about reading is doing it all by yourself. Whether you're in a corner of the library for 5-6 hours, or whether you stay up until 4, simply because you are the only one up, reading is the awesomest thing ever.
I pity the people who hate to read. They have no idea....They must have had rotten kindergarten teachers. I actually have a few book haters in my dorm, but we've been working on them. I start them out with picture books, and we work our way up to easy chapter books. I'm determined to convert them. Honestly, what's to hate about Click Clack Moo or Diary of a Worm?
you will never convert me,my childhood reading experiences were tramatic. i am dyslexic.
Josh, nice reference to Citizen Kane.
When I think of you being a great brother I always think about that night.
So true RuthAnn, So very, very true.
Josh, I miss you and your reading this tour. In fact, I'm sitting in a Barnes & Noble now and without you to tell me what to buy, I'm just sitting in the coffee shop wasting time online. Or, I prefer reading my friend's blogs to reading classics. Or, I'm just a technology fiend. Or, I didn't get much sleep last night and the double-concert days are catching up with me.
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