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Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
If you are what you eat, I am a blueberry muffin
The ears are feeding on Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste (Ruthcore is back!)
Does putting an anti-poverty banner on this site make it not ad-free? Hmmm. Technicalities will always plague my life. I'm in the church office right now, doing what I do best... Messing around on the computer. And really, this isn't all I do. Haha.
No pictures on this computer... Although I've got a few on Flickr from Monday. But anyway, I met Jo yesterday which was very very nice. Except she was an hour late. Which I can deal with; it only made me spend money on a book I didn't need (The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera). It isn't easy to read 12 books at one go... I might have picked up that awful habit from my Dad. So this is what I'm trying to get through, and an estimate of how long I've been attempting to read all of them:
1. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Bought it in India 3 years ago. Am probably never going to finish reading it.
2. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
Bought it in May, started reading it 2 weeks ago.
3. Don't Eat This Book - Morgan Spurlock
Nathan's book... borrowed it in May. Started reading it in May. Still not done.
4. Captivating - John & Stasi Eldredge
My Mom's book, read it in April, didn't read the last chapter.)
5. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
One of the best books I have read halfway. Started in March. Nowhere near the end.
6. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
Excellent book as well. Bought it in June, am only halfway through.
7. The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
Dad's book. So good. But I'm rereading it because I forgot where I stopped previously.
8. Searching For God Knows What - Donald Miller
Started reading it in June. Have the last chapter to finish.
9. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Bought it in May. Read one chapter.
10. Know Why You Believe - Paul Little
Started reading it last December. Never finished it.
11. Every Young Woman's Battle - Shannon Ethridge
Interesting book that didn't quite pique my interest. Started reading it in February. Might never finish it.
12. Citizen Girl - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Bought it last year. Didn't like it very much. But will attempt to finish reading it, just because.
13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Started reading it this morning. So far so good!
14. Finding Myself - Toby Litt
Bought it in April. Strange book, only read a few pages.
I think there are more lying around my room... So doing things halfway has worked its way into my reading habits as well. Fantastic.
And then there are the books that I managed to finish reading in the midst of all these unturned pages... Like that Beasts of No Nation one, and Blue Like Jazz. Those books affected me greatly. I still have Vernon God Little to read. And Biblical Psychology by some old dead man. And I want to buy Middlesex. I saw the Nausea book by Sartre yesterday and nearly bought that, but the first two pages were already too depressing. Gotta love existentialism.
Anyway, I went to Sony Ericsson to hand over my tragically white phone only to hear that EVERYTHING would be erased. Sentimentalism sucks. Jo went shopping after we had our chi-chi lunch and I met Kurt to watch The Devil Wears Prada (with the Snakes tickets). Useless is the only adjective I can think of to describe that movie... As the KurtSage said, "It's a chick flick." (Ooh... Long time no chick flick, come to think of it.) I guess we do watch a lot of crap movies. But they're usually so crap we laugh a lot. Unfortunately yesterday's movie wasn't. Although all the shoes made me itch in my heart. Kurt went home, I met Jo again, felt pregnant (fully psychological... it's the dress I wore) and sick from the lack of food. I saved my appetite for dinner. Which was AMAZING. Ate with The Parents and Sandy at Al Forno which was amazingamazingamazing. And then I went home and tickled the ivories. I think I can play 9 songs (albeit juvenile ones) so all is well!
Lemming is on my mind. No, I'm not mythically suicidal like Disney made out those critters to be. I want to watch that movie desperately. Hopefully it'll be better than any other movie I've seen lately. So far so bad, for fulfilling that whole wish of watching "better movies".
Okay, enough writing. I need to print out stuff and file about a thousand song sheets. Here are a few pictures I put up on Flickr from the past few days.
Kurt deleted this picture but HA this isn't HisSpace anymore!
Feigning genuine intellect.
These are not boat shoes
Yeah. We're happy.
After That Brilliant Dinner on Saturday night
Jeremy thinks he looks hot in this picture. Maybe literally.
17:00
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