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indeedsir! Good work, I think.
Just finished "Northanger Abby." I guess I should have already read all of Jane Austen's writings - I seem a bit behind my age (I guess it would be politically incorrect of me to call myself developmentally retarded) - but I have to say I'm glad I am, because there's so much joy left for me yet to experience. But I'm not going to jump straight into another Austen; I should read this bookeor had loaned to him by a co-worker ("The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini) first, and then I suppose I should get through another of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. I'm not sure why I found the first Mars book such slow going - I remember reading "At The Earth's Core" and "Pellucidar" when I was a kid and liking them a lot. Either I'm more discriminating now or perhaps he'd become a better writer in the five years between the publication of "A Princess of Mars" and "At The Earth's Core."
Oh my - to the lovely aroma of the garbage waiting to go out I have now added the smell of overdone eggs. I set them to boil and didn't at all forget about them... but I guess they must have been boiling for an hour or so while I finished the book and started this entry. I happily listened to their bubbling away without thinking about it at all. They didn't boil dry and pop - a stunt I have managed to pull in the past, and probably since I've had this journal - but they did crack and leak bits of egg into the water. (Although since the egg obviously cooked in the water, perhaps that happened long before the water level got down past the top of the eggs?) Reason #452 why I am a dork: Completely unaware of the passage of time.
smokingthings' Mike/Psmith slash over on indeedsir! Good work, I think. Just finished "Northanger Abby." I guess I should have already read all of Jane Austen's writings - I seem a bit behind my age (I guess it would be politically incorrect of me to call myself developmentally retarded) - but I have to say I'm glad I am, because there's so much joy left for me yet to experience. But I'm not going to jump straight into another Austen; I should read this book
eor had loaned to him by a co-worker ("The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini) first, and then I suppose I should get through another of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. I'm not sure why I found the first Mars book such slow going - I remember reading "At The Earth's Core" and "Pellucidar" when I was a kid and liking them a lot. Either I'm more discriminating now or perhaps he'd become a better writer in the five years between the publication of "A Princess of Mars" and "At The Earth's Core." Oh my - to the lovely aroma of the garbage waiting to go out I have now added the smell of overdone eggs. I set them to boil and didn't at all forget about them... but I guess they must have been boiling for an hour or so while I finished the book and started this entry. I happily listened to their bubbling away without thinking about it at all. They didn't boil dry and pop - a stunt I have managed to pull in the past, and probably since I've had this journal - but they did crack and leak bits of egg into the water. (Although since the egg obviously cooked in the water, perhaps that happened long before the water level got down past the top of the eggs?) Reason #452 why I am a dork: Completely unaware of the passage of time.