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. Â 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. Â I almost never delay my responsiblities any more. Â I finished and turned in almost all of my assignments this semester early. Â This is a happy development in my life. Â 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…