getting older and stupider....
yes i know that 'stupider' is not a word - that was meant as a joke and hopefully you, my intelligent reader caught on to that.
if you notice in my side margins i have a list of books im currently reading. for one, you might realize that there are multiple books in the list. this due in part to what i would diagnose as a slowly increasing case of attention deficit disorder. as i age, im realizing that i cant for the life of me keep my focus on anything for too long and im not sure why. maybe its because im not having to endure hour long classes where my attention is trained to fixate on one point...although i was notorious for sleeping in about 70% of my classes, 50% of which i went to. but my academic motivation is a completely different topic.
so anyways...back to the books...those books have been on that list for a real...long...time. at least half a year...probably longer. and have i finished any of them? um no....and its been so long since ive opened them that i will inevitably have to start over on page one to remember what the heck its about. and for that dang harry potter book that is like 700 pages long...i will never finish it...and to think that book six which is like 900 pages...is waiting to be read after i finish five...dios mio. but yeah, i have this great knack at starting books and not finishing them...and starting new books when im in the middle of others. all it takes is for me to see an interesting book and want to read it and suddenly ive forgotten that im already reading two others and at one time they seemed interesting enough to start as well.
all to say, ive started another book. *cringe* yeah, that makes 4 although im only actively reading the new one - a new kind of christian. id heard some good things about it, read the 5 pg online preview on amazon, found out my roomie owned it, and started reading it last week. its not an easy read so im suprised that im still giving it a chance. its filled with big words and theories i dont know but maybe thats whats keeping me in - the challenge of learning the stuff. so yeah, theres some good stuff in it and i was going to add some excerpts i liked from it but this entry is becoming too long as it is so ill save it for another time.
so...hopefully ill finish this book but i cant guarantee that. i do want to get back into the habit of reading more though bc i do believe that it provides some sort of positive mental stimulation that i could probably use since i dont get a whole lot of that at work. my goal is to read at least 20 books this year...which on one hand sounds like a whole lot...and on another hand it doesnt seem like many at all...so we'll see. regardless, ill probably still be reading harry potter 5 in 2007.
if you notice in my side margins i have a list of books im currently reading. for one, you might realize that there are multiple books in the list. this due in part to what i would diagnose as a slowly increasing case of attention deficit disorder. as i age, im realizing that i cant for the life of me keep my focus on anything for too long and im not sure why. maybe its because im not having to endure hour long classes where my attention is trained to fixate on one point...although i was notorious for sleeping in about 70% of my classes, 50% of which i went to. but my academic motivation is a completely different topic.
so anyways...back to the books...those books have been on that list for a real...long...time. at least half a year...probably longer. and have i finished any of them? um no....and its been so long since ive opened them that i will inevitably have to start over on page one to remember what the heck its about. and for that dang harry potter book that is like 700 pages long...i will never finish it...and to think that book six which is like 900 pages...is waiting to be read after i finish five...dios mio. but yeah, i have this great knack at starting books and not finishing them...and starting new books when im in the middle of others. all it takes is for me to see an interesting book and want to read it and suddenly ive forgotten that im already reading two others and at one time they seemed interesting enough to start as well.
all to say, ive started another book. *cringe* yeah, that makes 4 although im only actively reading the new one - a new kind of christian. id heard some good things about it, read the 5 pg online preview on amazon, found out my roomie owned it, and started reading it last week. its not an easy read so im suprised that im still giving it a chance. its filled with big words and theories i dont know but maybe thats whats keeping me in - the challenge of learning the stuff. so yeah, theres some good stuff in it and i was going to add some excerpts i liked from it but this entry is becoming too long as it is so ill save it for another time.
so...hopefully ill finish this book but i cant guarantee that. i do want to get back into the habit of reading more though bc i do believe that it provides some sort of positive mental stimulation that i could probably use since i dont get a whole lot of that at work. my goal is to read at least 20 books this year...which on one hand sounds like a whole lot...and on another hand it doesnt seem like many at all...so we'll see. regardless, ill probably still be reading harry potter 5 in 2007.
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