things I am reading
I’ve been reading a lot lately. I tend to go through phases with books – there has to be just enough time to laze about turning pages for me to really get into it, otherwise I get too stressed about having enough time to finish it up. Welcome to my time-planning-compulsion.
The four books above are the ones I’ve been whipping through these past few weeks. Amsterdam is kind of self-explanatory. I didn’t go all out and get a “tourist guide” because, well, I have access to the internet, and secondly, I’m there for work. Which will likely consume about 1000% of my time. But it makes good page-flipping fodder, and I get to think about what I *might* do, if I had the chance. I’d like to get out and at least do something, like the Van Gogh Museum, and take a zillion photos. Luckily, we’re staying near the flowermarket area, and we’ll have to tram everyday to get to the conference center. Travel time – picture time!
The second is Party Of One: The Loners Manifesto, a novel by Anneli Rufus on why society makes it tough to be an introvert, but all the same, being an introvert is ok. I was inspired to pick it up after I read her farewell chronicles – an amazing book on how people really cope with death, and why it shouldn’t be such a taboo subject.
The other two I haven’t been able to get into yet…perhaps they’ll be reborn as plane fodder if we’re still allowed to bring books onboard….
And on that note, a funny link about air travel.
japanese women don’t get old and fat? i have seen the oldest of japanese women! they are really cute and tiny though, but definitely, definitely old!
interesting book, is this is spin-off on the french women don’t get fat book?
btw! the laptop sleeve! i’d love if you can make one, let’s do an exchange of something, or i can just buy it from you! let me know :)
I have a very distanced reaction to death. I feel bad about it, because it makes me seem cold and unfeeling, but I look at death as just another part of life. There is no cure for death, and I don’t feel like I should get all upset about it. I was friends with Sean Eagan, the professor who died on Everest (I used to fix his bike all the time), and it sucked to hear that a friend had died over the radio at work. However, I know he died doing something he loved, so I didn’t get worked up about it. Essentially, I try to subscribe to the following: Don’t get upset that their life is over, be happy that they were alive in the first place. Don’t feel guilty that you didn’t get to say sorry, or say goodbye, or anything else. They know. (Whee Catholic upbringing! *eyeroll*)
Being an introvert is definitely difficult in today’s society. Not only does it FEEL like everybody is looking at you, often times, they ARE, stealing furtive glances, sometimes while whispering. It makes you feel really self-conscious, which sucks.