July 20, 2007
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bored or boring? I was thinking the other day how noone ever blogs here anymore, how there are 5 or 6 days out of the week when most of my reading list is absent, then of course I had to admit that I don’t blog either. My rationalization for it, is that I lead a pretty boring life. I figure you guys are all just really super summertime busy.
Sure I live in Germany. But the truth is most of the time I spend day after day after endless day sitting in my apartment reading or playing on the laptop About once a week we go to the closest post so I can trade out my library books and movies and do our shopping and then I’m back home for more of the same. I rarely see anyone and even more rare do I speak to someone other than my husband.
Maybe that’s why you don’t post either. Only in a less isolated way.
The truth is I could write about it, I could tell you how much I enjoyed reading Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich and how it made me laugh out loud. Or I could tell you that Bear had me check out a DVD called Coffee and Cigarettes, and it was the oddest, but somehow compelling all the same, movie that I’ve seen in quite sometime. I could even tell you that my mini-petunias out on the balcony have Aphids and it’s pissing me off that I can’t buy aphid killer on the post and I have to buy it on the economy. Why does that piss me off? Because it means the instructions will be in German and my German is spotty at best and that’s being kind.
The reason I don’t normally write about this type of stuff is because it is stultifyingly boring to me, and I figure to you too. Some out there have this ability to make feeding the dog not only an event but an event worth reading about. I feel like unless I’m off to another country well then it’s gonna be boring as hell. I’m wrong and I know I am but it still feels that way.
What am I reading now? The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien, this is the one his son Christopher was so criticized for. Some say he wrote it, if he did he sure is a chip off the old block. It feels like Tolkien is telling a tale from the old ages of Middle Earth.
I’m merrily reading along in bed last night and I turn the page and it’s blank. I turn another page…it’s almost blank, the print is so faint I can make out the words along the margins but that’s about it. I start getting that panicky feeling because I know the post library has only got one copy of this book and even though I don’t want to skip pages I will skip a couple so I can finish this book. I turn more pages, there are 10 or 15 good pages and then 3 or 4 more pages of writing so faint it can hardly be read, then more good pages, then more bad. No doubt about it now I’m going to have to stop reading and hope that I can get a different copy from another post. Great! I’m thinking to myself, how long will this take? Where was inspecter 13 when this book was sold? They inspect your underwear before you get them shouldn’t they have quality control for books too? Grrr……
I’m notorious for reading a book non-stop usually in one day. This book I was savoring, because just like when I read Robert Jordans’ neverending….umm, I meant Wheel of Time series, if I take my time then I start dreaming about it all. And let me tell you folks those are some really excellant dreams. They might not make a lot of sense but they are filled with really neat places, peopls, clothes and even food. But the trick is I have to read some every single day for the dreams to start and this book is to short to really get that effect. Now having to completely stop halfway thru I know that it’s not gonna happen at all. I feel cheated! My dreams have been stolen by lack of a book inspector…hmph.
I guess I need to finish up here and make some calls to some of the other post libraries….bleh. Hope there’s not a waiting list.
Comments (9)
Bah, I’d be pissed, too – that sucks! I loved the first few Wheel of Time books, but he just disappeared up his own arse after about book five ~ I kept trying but gave up around book seven. Now Robert Jordan is, sadly, dying of amyloidosis, I guess the series will either finish abruptly or not at all
I feel like I am always boring these days. However, I would like you to send me your mailing address please!! I sent you something and it came back to me. Email me!
You can always have your darling daughter buy you a copy and mail it to you…. speaking of mail… I really need that package, with or without music. Love you!!!
you can spin book diaries. I always want to talk about books I’ve discovered. I spent six weeks hiding out in Germany once. Read much. Rarely slept.
For my first couple of years on Xanga I was a lurker. I read other people’s blogs but never posted on my own. (Hey, that kinda sounds like now.
) I guess I just felt like I had nothing interesting to say, but then I thought about what was posted on the blogs I was so interested in reading. Most of it was mundane stuff like what was for dinner or what chores needed to be done. I guess our voyeuristic tendencies can make even the simplest details of another person’s existence fascinating.
So, I love it when you blog, and I don’t mind if it’s about nothing in particular.
My kids can totally relate to your frustration over your book. After eleven years of teaching, more than a few of the books in my classroom library are now missing pages, and every once in awhile a student will approach me incensed that he or she will now never know what happened next. As for me, I am currently awaiting my copy of the final Harry Potter, which is supposed to arrive today. I don’t know that I want to read it right away, though, because I’ve kind of forgotten what happened in the previous book. In the meantime, I have a book by Anne Lamott that I checked out from the library to keep me company.
I was delighted to receive your phone message, by the way. I haven’t really been able to receive calls for the past three weeks because the cell phone is a major no-no in the courtroom. My jury duty is now stretching into its fourth week, by the way. Anyway, I was surprised that you called my cell phone; I rarely give that number out because I’m so horrible at answering my cell phone. Did I give you my home phone too?
Well, I’m off to get the towel off my head and commence the daily battle with my hair. I hope all’s well in Germany, and I’m eagerly awaiting a report of what’s for dinner!
‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ sounds interesting and familiar! I re-subbed, and added you as a friend! Have a good week.
Hum, I guess my life is boring also. Writing about everyday stuff doesn’t excite me.
You had a lot of friends this weekend. I got about 10 autographs in your copy of “Houston: We’ve Got Bubbas.” If you let me hang onto it until my writer’s meeting on August 6th and I should be able to get three more. Don’t forget to send me your new address before then. If you ever do come to one of these cons with a lot of YDP writer’s you’ll be quite popular, people keep asking me when they get to meet you.
It is sure Elizabeth after the wonderful trip in all of Europe that you have got , the ordinary life in Germany may seem dull . But , perhaps you have other perspectives .
I liked the slide show below .
Thank you for your kind words in your comment .
Love
Michel