Well, I am part way through crazy week #3 at work. Actually it’s been pretty busy for the last few months, but with my deadline three weeks away, I’ve been very nose-to-the-grindstone lately.
There has been some time for other stuff, though. I have just started to realize how much more I’ve been reading while living by myself. I used to be a 15-minutes-then-fall-asleep reader. Lately, though, I have trouble making myself go to bed. I tell myself, one more chapter… one more chapter… and suddenly it’s 1:00am. Although I’ve had a few zombie mornings, I love feeling like a teenager again, staying awake way too late reading, although now I don’t have to worry about getting caught. (It now occurs to me that, of all the things to punish a kid for, staying up to read isn’t really so terrible.)
When I moved 8 months ago, I decided to only unpack the books that I haven’t read (and a select few that I would like to read again). There were so many that I filled five bookshelves. I had over 150 books that I had bought but not read. I counted again last weekend and those are down to 122, but I’ve probably purchased a couple dozen more since last April.
Yes, you read that right. I have 122 books on my “to read” bookshelf bookcase. Don’t believe me? Check out my LibraryThing catalog. It’s not recently updated, but you’ll get the idea.
Speaking of books, my book club met last night to discuss John Adams by David McCullough. Despite all the reading I’ve done lately, work was just too busy for a 700 page book in a mere 4 weeks. So, I rented the miniseries from Netflix instead. (As it turns out, not one person at the meeting finished the book, and I wasn’t the only one who watched the show instead.) I thoroughly enjoyed the first 4 episodes of the miniseries, and still have 3 more to watch. Next month, we’re discussing The Tender Bar, which is a good timesaver for me since I finished it in January!
Also, I dusted off the sewing machine tonight and finally learned how to do a blind hem stitch. I was running up against a deadline to hem some uniform pants for a new member — we have a performance tomorrow evening.
Can you see the hem? No? Good!
(Sorry for the terrible photo quality. The lighting wasn’t great.)
How do you manage to do so much? That’s great about the blind hem stitch. I still can’t do one of those. Good luck with the project. See you when you are back in normal life!
By: flo on February 11, 2009
at 6:08 PM