spoiled chinese girl

So I’ve been reading. It beats staring endlessly at the TV screen and computer monitor. I even go outside and sit on the porch to do it on bright sunny day’s to “get a little colour into my cheeks” and end up with slightly burnt arms and legs. I must remember my SPF next time out. I’ve somewhat rekindled my joy of reading though, I used to read loads of books, mostly girlie novels that I’m sure everyone in the 1990’s were reading at the time. But I’ve never really grown past the “Young Adult” stage of my life, and finally hitting an adult taste in books is very ackward.

Right now I’m reading How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie because it was suggested to me/us in my entrepreneurship class. After that I’m going to see if Phil still has that copy of Stupid White Men by Michael Moore because I think that would just be funny. Obviously I’m hoping that I will have a job before all this happens, but it would be something interesting to do during lunch breaks or if I happen to become a TTC commuter.

I was later discussing with Amanda about reading and trading off books and basically starting up an interesting book-club of sorts. I have a pile of those “classics” type books I got from Chapters so many years ago that have done nothing but collect dust. I’ll never read them and god knows why I even bothered buying them. Oh well.

Yes. Books are satisfying. Reading to the end of a page, and physically turning one can never be simulated by a computer screen, no matter how cool the animation looks. It’s the handling of pages, the scanning of words and the satisfaction of seeing your bookmark move further along into the depths of the printed word. It’s just irreplacable.

I really need to get out more.

In other news, I flipped my mattress over finally after 6 years of not touching it. (Well, 3 of those years I didn’t really live here) and it feels like a whole new mattress. Fun stuff. I must remember this trick for when I move out on my own!