Completely Veered Off Course
mi vida estupida|This week has been quite busy so that I haven’t even gotten a chance to look at my photos from London (other than The Famous Cock). I haven’t even caught up on sleep these last few days (which is probably a lost cause at this point), not getting to bed until midnight or later and waking up at 6:00 A.M. My goal for tonight was to be asleep by 10:00 P.M., but it’s already past that…
Surprisingly, I’ve been very focused at work. I’m trying to order all my books for the school year before Christmas break because there is a new ordering procedure starting in January and I’d rather not have to deal with it this time around. So I’ve been making my lists, checking them twice, and sending them off to the vendors. (And if anyone has some book suggestions for me, I will be very grateful.)
Maybe because I’ve been so disciplined at work, I am all over the place when I get home. I crack open the laptop in an attempt to sort through my photos and post something decent but instead get caught up in a leap-frog of hyperlinks. I’ll start off innocently checking the weather and next thing I know I am googling Tiger Woods, because I am apparently the last person in the free world to hear about it. (Thanks Coconut Diaries.) Or I’ll go to Wikipedia to read up on something I’ve come across, in this case the Sierpinski triangle, and next thing you know I’ve read through all the various Polish-Soviet wars, uprisings, and rebellions, till I end up at the “cursed soldiers” resistance movement. And that’s when it’s midnight and I start scrambling to get to bed.
And now a wave of mental exhaustion just hit me so I’m going to end this post here. I had a specific topic that I wanted to write about, based on something I randomly came across today while leap-frogging through URLs, but it will have to wait another day or two. So I bid you all goodnight.
PS - book suggestions!!!
December 4th, 2009 at 12:43 am
That was the most impressively off-the-wall post I’ve ever read. The really amazing thing is that I COMPLETELY understood your mental state. Every word of it. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing…
So, uh are you looking for book suggestions, or is it a teaser that you’re going to make some?
December 4th, 2009 at 8:03 am
GH - thanks, i’ll take that as a compliment
and i do want book suggestions, because it’s hard to come up with several hundred titles before mid-december.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Does it have to be age appropriate (not sure what the ages of the kids are at the library you work at)? Because, if not, I would totally suggest any Steinbeck.
By the way, on a completely different note, you mentioned the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in lieu of The Curious INcident of the Dog in the Night time…. and it got me thinking… was the protagonist in the JSF book a special needs child?? Because I was not aware of that when I was reading it.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Lords of Discipline
The Great Santini
amazing.
December 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
It’s been all about football and Amanda Knox over here. I hate it when current affairs interferes with my blog posts.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
dene - since it’s a high school I order a lot of YA but also adult books. steinbeck is definitely a staple in the library. as for Extremely Loud, oskar is not special needs but he is “gifted” and certainly thinks and views the world a bit differently than the average 9-year-old which is why it reminds me of Curious Incident (and also the protagonist of The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt)
little sister - you do love your conroy. prince of tides, hell yeah.
tcd - hehe, i hate it when my laziness interferes with my blog posts