Grr watching the world from our balcony
I finished "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know" by Heather Sellers sometime ago. It was a great book and I am really intrigued by this neurological disorder of prosopagnocia. It's very odd and I have to admit that I'm glad I don't have it. How weird would it be to not recognize faces? I suppose if I was born with it like Heather Sellers I wouldn't know any different and would've come up with ways to differentiate people like she did, but I'm glad I don't have to deal with that.
I also read and loved "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. I remember reading "Number The Stars" when I was younger and loved it, so I had to read this one. It was really good. Very reminiscent of Aldous Huxley's famous novel "Brave New World". I'm now reading "The Search" by Nora Roberts. I've never read any of her books before and I have to say I'm enjoying it. It's a lot of fun. No thinking involved, but just a fun read. I'm about halfway through it, which is pretty good since it's about 500 pages.
Do you remember that Friends episode where Phoebe runs all weird and Rachel is really ashamed to be seen running with her at first until Phoebe explains, she just likes running that way? Well when I'm in my spinning classes and really tired, I have to admit that I feel like my legs are moving like that. I think it's kinda funny. At least it gives me a smile while I'm sweating profusely.
I'm almost to the end of my second quarter at school and the quarter system sucks. It's too short and fast for graduate school for me. I feel like I have no time to breathe. In fact, I should be reading and writing right now but am pretty burnt out. It's not good since I have huge papers to write over the next few weeks and have one more quarter for the year which starts only a week after this one ends. Graduate school is awesome, don't get me wrong and my program is amazing. I mean I never thought I'd learn this much. But do I really have to write this many lengthy papers? Ugh, it's pretty lame.
I've gotten very annoyed with Pandora, and have switched to Grooveshark. I'm loving this music website. No commercials and I have found almost every song I want to listen too, pretty awesome. I also ordered some more CDs from my favorite place, Newbury Comics. This place is in Massachusetts and although I've only been there once, years after I even found them and started ordering CDs, they have the best selection for a decent price and ship relatively quickly.
This blog post was really just another way for me to procrastinate doing homework, so I'm going to go face the music (and maybe find some other distracting ways to procrastinate). Ah, I love holidays...
