Holiday Recovery
Wednesday, July 06, 2005 by Mel
For the few who stumble upon this blog, you may have noticed an absence of new material lately. The truth is that events of a blog-worthy nature have been rare these last couple of weeks, and most days I was too busy at work or too bored at work to come over and add new material.
Last weekend was my first free weekend in a couple of months. By that I mean that I had no roommate and/or friend around which to plan my free time. My apartment was very quiet, except for the car alarm that went off for a couple of hours Saturday night and the fireworks on Sunday night. But I got to do the g0-where-the-mood-strikes-me thing on Saturday afternoon, which meant that I hit an antique store, Ulta, Wal-mart, and Best Buy. It also means that I went to the mall, but when I didn't feel like dealing with the scores of people, I left without even getting out of my car and didn't have to feel bad about dragging anyone with me or being dragged around by anyone else.
That's not to say I didn't look forward to the return of said roommate and friend, and we all had a good time last night when they came back. It is nice to know that I can take a few days and not have to worry about anyone but me.
And now for the required Wheel of Time update:
I am still wading through Book 3, mostly because I took my "Me Weekend" to do a lot of things besides read. If I tried really hard, I could probably finish by tomorrow. I don't know why I'm struggling with this one so much. And it wasn't even the whole book that was beating me; it's probably only been the second half. I read about 100 pages over the weekend, but I couldn't tell you half of what happened, and I don't know why. I think the distraction of being all alone did me in. There were too many things calling to me, and I listened to them instead.
I will definitely have to take a short commercial break after I finish 3, although I have been told by my resident WoT expert that the last pages of the book are some mighty fine ones. I have at least four other books that I've been wanting to read, and I really shouldn't even start those until I put in some more editing time. Why can't I just find the happy medium?
Enjoy your day.
Last weekend was my first free weekend in a couple of months. By that I mean that I had no roommate and/or friend around which to plan my free time. My apartment was very quiet, except for the car alarm that went off for a couple of hours Saturday night and the fireworks on Sunday night. But I got to do the g0-where-the-mood-strikes-me thing on Saturday afternoon, which meant that I hit an antique store, Ulta, Wal-mart, and Best Buy. It also means that I went to the mall, but when I didn't feel like dealing with the scores of people, I left without even getting out of my car and didn't have to feel bad about dragging anyone with me or being dragged around by anyone else.
That's not to say I didn't look forward to the return of said roommate and friend, and we all had a good time last night when they came back. It is nice to know that I can take a few days and not have to worry about anyone but me.
And now for the required Wheel of Time update:
I am still wading through Book 3, mostly because I took my "Me Weekend" to do a lot of things besides read. If I tried really hard, I could probably finish by tomorrow. I don't know why I'm struggling with this one so much. And it wasn't even the whole book that was beating me; it's probably only been the second half. I read about 100 pages over the weekend, but I couldn't tell you half of what happened, and I don't know why. I think the distraction of being all alone did me in. There were too many things calling to me, and I listened to them instead.
I will definitely have to take a short commercial break after I finish 3, although I have been told by my resident WoT expert that the last pages of the book are some mighty fine ones. I have at least four other books that I've been wanting to read, and I really shouldn't even start those until I put in some more editing time. Why can't I just find the happy medium?
Enjoy your day.
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