pathetic (or, the books i read/have read)

To start: As I look at it, that title might be difficult for those learning English. Why do we put them through that?

The middle: I wish that I had started keeping track of the books I've read since Jan 1. That seems like it would have been a good time to start. But I'm going to start today instead. Suffice it to say that I've read an extrordinarily high number of books in the last month and a half. That's just what I do. Especially since I've done something I didn't allow myself to do for the last three years:

I got a real library card (as opposed to the 'fake' one for my college library).

And I started with 'A.'

Bliss, let me tell you.

So, I started this today: A Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

It's fantastic.

I'm also reading this in little bits and pieces: Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper

Also fantastic.

The end: Right now I'm listening to a Counting Crows CD I found in my cousin's room. Undoubtably this is the sound of high school for me. This and Oasis. But I wasn't allowed to listen to them, so I guess it's the sound of high school from anywhere but my own home.

note to my future self:

Next time it's going to be this cold for this long, take the beer out of the back seat of the car 'cause it's going to freeze, explode and make the car smell. Though there are worse things for a car to smell like than beer, at least until it gets warmer out. Then there will be a problem.

think about it...

Two small things I learned about common phrases lately which may or may not say something about the state of my brain. (I think it says that I think too fast and don't stop often enough to think about things)

1. Say you've lost something and are looking everywhere for it. And then you find it. And then someone asks you where you found it and you say, "in the last place I thought to look." I used to think this meant that it never occured to you to look in that particular place, but what it really means is exactly what it says: I found it there (wherever "there" is) and then didn't have to look anywhere else, so no matter where "there" is, the place you found is it the last place you thought to look. Get it?

2. When a weather person says with authority that the snowfall for the day has a 50% chance of being above average, we all ought to respond with a resounding "duh" rather than with admiration for the weatherperson's uncanny ability to forecast the weather. Because no matter what the snowfall, it will always be either below or above average (unless in a strange case it falls exactly on the average), because it's an average, not an exact number. Get it?

I didn't, but now I do.