Wish me luck, I’m reading another Virginia Woolf novel, Night and Day. I haven’t had much luck reading her novels. I want to like them, but I end up losing interest about a quarter of the way in and then I get anxious and distracted and probably lose the story by skimming over words. I do like her essays, however, and I can read them with little trouble. Mostly, I just think she’s an interesting personality, and that definitely comes out in her writing. I think I might have appreciated her novels more when I was younger and into long-winded descriptions/stream-of-conscious (not a bad thing, but done wrong can go very badly) that go on for pages and pages with no breaks. I’ve either acquired a bit of ADD recently, or maybe I value my time a little more? In any case, I’m about a quarter of the way through Night and Day and so far, so good… and I was able to read at work and that takes a little more concentration than usual… so, there’s potential.
Today is my sister’s birthday (yes, September 11th). Happy birthday to her. We celebrated last weekend by going over to my parents’ house and having dinner (and the best Strawberry Shortcake I’ve ever had, made by Kelly’s boyfriend). I got her the Party of Five Season One DVD (I kid you not) and treated her to some burgers and salad tonight. She’ll celebrate this Friday with her friends, and I’ll be missing out on awesome wings (that opens to a .pdf menu, btw) and beer… but I kind of make up for it by seeing Do Make Say Think at the NY Society for Ethical Culture for the Wordless Music Series. I’m excited to see how this is presented. Mostly, I just need some musical therapy.
Other things:
This is my new favorite site: animesplat.com. I’ve been watching episodes of Sailor Moon (subtitled in English) and plan to move on to episodes of Cowboy Bebop, soon.
Read On the Road for the third time. Both rereads have felt like reading it for the first time, all over again. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but I definitely intend to come back to it at another time in my life and see what new things I can take out of it. Still not my favorite Kerouac book (try Desolation Angels, or Visions of Cody) but I think that anyone who wants to try Kerouac needs to start here, first.
Also finished another volume of Scott Pilgrim. Only makes me love Canadians more, if that’s even possible.
In about a month, I will turn 29 years old. I’m planning on a weekend getaway, but probably not for the exact weekend of my birthday, as I want to participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Westport, CT. It falls EXACTLY on my birthday. I want to do something special for my birthday, and something not completely self-centered, so my sister and I and a few others are gonna raise some money and walk the 5 miles in support. 5 miles is nothing.