Reading Again!
I had one other thought about graduate school that I forgot to include in the last post.
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My inner procrastinator is dead.
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Really. I have always been a wait-’till-the-last-minute kind of person but since having children and keeping such a full schedule I have changed. I almost never delay my responsiblities any more. I finished and turned in almost all of my assignments this semester early. This is a happy development in my life. Procrastination is one outworking of laziness and I am happy to see it going away.
Between yesterday afternoon and this morning, I finished two books. One: the first published work by Benjamin Merkle The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great was fun, informative, and engaging. I highly recommend it for the amateur history buff or the high-school student studying British history. I also read Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia. It was incisive and philosophical, but too short and not fully developed. Rumor has it that he wrote in a week in order to raise funds to care for his dying mother. The back-story is almost more interesting than the book! It feels so good to be reading just for fun…
December 28th, 2009 at 4:13 am
Rasselas was my book to read in the bathtub on Christmas Day one year. I thought the same thing: it needs work.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I saw the book "The Life you Save May be Your Own" at Borders last night. It looked interesting. Have you had a chance to read it yet?
December 28th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I haven't even heard of it. Did you buy it?
December 29th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Really? I swear you sent me a pic of the cover on my phone…. That is way I picked it up, it looked familiar.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Now I remember! I didn't buy it at the time (no money) but I thought you might be interested. I just added it to my wishlist on Amazon…
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:12 am
I am feeling envious of you.
My inner procrastinator died back in 1997, or that was what I thought.
I was so pleased with myself and my newfound productivity. It was something to do with having a baby every year and moving houses and across the continent in between each baby, and seeing my husband only every other weekend or so……
Anyhow, life got easier, and my procrastinator came back to life.
Maybe I should go back to school and take on foster children.
I look at you and Rebekah Merkel and I feel like Elmer Fudd.
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Hmm…I don't know. Maybe I'll be welcoming my IP back. Life getting easier might be nice
You continually humble me Missy. I have so much respect for you and your exemplary Christian life (caring for many children and an aged parent) that it blesses me to have your words of honor. On days when I don't feel very amazing it's nice to know that you see that. But you're no Elmer Fudd…I don't think he could run even 20/26 of a marathon, unless he was chasing Bugs!