What I read today

[philthecow]

I am almost done with Lord Elgin and the Marbles for my Orientalism paper. I read it in bed for about an hour, then took a nap, then ran around doing interviews for the Daily Gazette (I talked to Professor Kuharski for over an hour), then translated a riddle for Old English, then skimmed some articles on J-Stor about said riddle, then felt guilty

Comments

[jackferd]

I think it's an important point to mention that we were reading Wikipedia articles on paraphilias/fetishes.

I'm not sure if you had left by the time we finally watched one of the videos.

And I also can't do any pleasure reading, but that seems pretty ubiquitous to Swat. I feel guilty whenever I read things that aren't for class because, really, I could be studying X instead of reading Y (even if Y is something fairly academic as well)... I'm actually kind-of tricking myself into reading a bunch of cool Psychology books/papers by opting into an optional paper that I really don't have to do. And over break I'm going to be catching up on Organic Chemistry instead of finally cracking open, say, Perdido Street Station or any of the thousand other things Jeff has suggested to me.

I miss reading.

[sinsofthedove]

I bought that at Borders last year sometime. I should really try to get past the first few pages and read the damn thing. Ditto "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" which jere7my gave me for Christmas.

[braidsofdeath]

I read about as many books for pleasure in the past five years as I did in my senior year of high school. It is depressing. Only now am I starting to try to be able to read for fun again. Unfortunately now I'm failing at that because I'm lazy!

[ursule]

I recommend reading a novel while drinking on Friday nights. Not only do you get to read novels, it makes you look sexy & mysterious.

[_swallow]

Freshman year I noticed I had stopped reading as much I used to, so I started keeping a list, as a way to shame myself. By the start of sophomore spring I felt as if I had retrained myself to read-for-pleasure again, so I dropped the effort of the list. But last semester I read exactly one novel outside of classes... and then I ended up writing my final paper for Patty White on it.

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I was thinking about what you said about the speed of reading poetry today while I was sorting through slush at APR. I started laughing, alone in the office with my feet propped on a folding chair, literally reading poems in seconds.