Read This Book @ MindSay 
Mindlessness on Mindsay; this is what I provide in this space. This might have been surprising if you haven’t read an entry of mine, yet if you read I don’t know, two of them, you’d just know its par for the course. It is what it is.
I’m listening to The Big Show on WEEI Boston right now. It’s a sports talk station and they have Boston Herald writers Rob Bradford and Steve Buckley on right now. It is not even close, their baseball guys are so much better than the football guys. The football guys just sit there and slurp the Patriots week in and week out, with good reason as they rarely lose, but they all yell over one another and goon up the station. The baseball guys at least have discussion, and Bradford is gold. www.bradfordfiles.com , that’s his blog if you’re interested. I should read his book, but I always forget it if I am ever in the book buying proposition. Maybe I’ll find it used this summer, which would be outstanding.
They just had an off topic discussion about Will Ferrell. I thought I had my fill of the guy years ago, before Anchorman was released, right after Old School, which is a pretty average comedy at best. Then I saw Anchorman and he killed me. I don’t know what it is about him, but the way he delivers his lines seems to suit my sense of humor completely. Despite my laugh threshold being low, I am picky about what people think is comedy. Like when that hack from my hometown pretends to be a low rent Weird Al, I will not allow for people to call him talented with a straight face. I also gave him a verbal stomping when he tried to defend himself, and when I have come across him the two or three times in person, he knew. This is my dilemma. I thoroughly enjoyed picking his lame act apart, but if I do so, I simply give him more attention, or make it look like I’m hung up on it. But maybe I should rip him again; I think he has youtube videos that I could pick apart. I mean the only point of me doing so is to be a prick, and then Lindsay would be mad for me making a scene.
I finally added youtube and Mindsay to the dictionary for this entry. No more spelling errors…
Ok, mindsay suggests the tag "straight guys", surely they don't know who that hack is either.
I have been many places, but one of them is not inside myself. Has it been so long that I am unable to peer into the depths of my own soul without the help of another? Am I so distanced that I cannot even reach the only person I know really truly exists?
Enough of that mumbo jumbo, my eye's twitching and my right leg is entirely asleep. I feel like punching babies, and my cat will not leave this goddamn box alone. We have several Christmas ornaments lying around, the carnage of kittyhell, the place that our apartment turns into after hours. I wonder what it would be like to be at home all the time, a Shit Ass Ho Motherfucker, per se. I would cook food. A lot. We've been being healthy, and I taped the calendar to the refrigerator so we can write goals. Shane wants to work out every week. I want to cook healthily for the two of us. So tonight we had Kraft macaroni and cheese. I've also devised yet another completely too complicated method for determining how to do the dishes. Not only that, but I made Shane go through our cookbooks and pick out stuff he wants to eat so I can make "healthy dinner." I'm such a fucking nut.
Plus, I spent at least a half hour trying to find a good copy of the 7th Harry Potter book in .lit format. I want to read it. And the best way to do it is to download it and put it into .jpg files and then read it on my Zune. But no, Ms. Rowlings has to be a jackass this time around and say "no ebook for this one." So there's only pirated versions of the .lit format, only even pirated versions of .pdf format. Well fuck you, Rowlings. I'm never going to buy your book. I'll just figure something out over here.
I don't know why I go on these jags of useless attempts to do something weird. Like find an ebook (when the 300+ I have on my computer aren't enough), find proper conversion software, and put it on my Zune so I can read it without sitting on this godawful computer chair. I don't know why Shane likes the fucking thing. Plus, it's a constant reminder of a you-know-who who likes to take advantage of people by pretending they have no interests but their own, and then ignoring protests of unfairness or hurt feelings. But whatever, it's just a chair. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have bad juju since I just beat the last castle before Bowser on Super Mario World, so it really is just a chair.
Now the bane of my existence, the tingling pain of formerly sleeping limbs, plagues me and causes my eye to twitch further. And I'm so tired that my spelling is really starting to go to piss. I'm even making myself mad just trying to type. So, since I'm a cheap good-for-nothing freeware slob, I'm going to smoke and read my 6th Harry Potter book, of which each chapter begins "bleebloo," thanks to the French who invented the chapter division tool that needs a keyword to put images of each chapter in a different folder. Why I chose "bleebloo" for the keyword, I have no clue. It must be one of those things, you know, where ten years later someone gets famous for it, and you think to yourself, "fuck, I was using that for chapter keywords while we were still living on Chestnut street."
Okay, maybe not.
I'm getting too old for this…stuff. Sunday night, I did what I swore I'd never do again, and that's pull an all-nighter. I had to write a 500 to 750-word book review. No big deal. I knocked that out in about 45 minutes. The kicker was not starting to read the 250-page book till 5 p.m. on the evening before it was due.
Why did I wait till the last minute? I'll admit I'm a procrastinator, but there's also that pesky thing called life that keeps getting in the way. I like to spend time with my wife. I like to play with my dog, visit my parents, and watch Curb Your Enthusiasm with my best friend. I act in plays and write columns for two different newspapers. And then there are the everyday things that have to be done while the wife is working to put me through college such as cooking, cleaning, and going to the market. Add to that commuting fifty miles and spending half the day in class three days a week, and then having to read volumes for each class. It can wear a body down quickly.
I'm thirteen years older than the majority of my classmates. That might not sound like much, but wait till you get there. It's an effort for me to stay up past midnight anymore, no matter what time I got up. After a while, something has to go on the back burner, and for me it was my book review. I'm certainly not advocating neglecting one's studies, but it was the choice I made.
When I attended ECU eleven years ago, I could start writing a major paper the night before it was due, knock off around 4 a.m., get four hours of sleep, and go to school the next day, and it wouldn't even faze me. My eyelids wouldn't droop once, and I'd at least get a B on the paper.
Monday, I felt like I was in Neverland (Peter Pan's version, not Michael Jackson's), and all my professors probably thought I was coming off a three-day drunk. I'll probably be lucky to get a Q on the book review, much less an F.
I think young college students get a bad rap. People older than I think they're lazy, and that they spend too much time partying and not enough time studying. Hey, if you can have any kind of life and then stay up all night reading a book and/or writing a paper, and still be able to function the next day and make a passing grade, then my hat's off to you because I just can't do it anymore.
© 2007 by J.D. Lewis
I have become completely obsessed with her books. Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I just finished reading her last boo of the series, Eclipse. And now I am reading the whole series over again. I just can't get enough of her work! I t is just completey amazing how she words everything, and how she leaves you hanging at the end of every book, and sorry for yall who haven't read Eclipse but she does it there too, and it made me so frustrated that she left it like that. I wanted to at least read how the wedding went, and how it turned out when she was turned into a vampire. I will probley end up reading her series twelve more times before school starts even though I know that I still have English books to read before school starts and we are supposed to have a test on the first whole day of class. I truly hate to read when I am supposed to read. For me that is like telling some one to place a steaming pile of crap in front of someone and telling them to eat it all and that they will be tested on how it tastes later. Ugh! That is no way my idea of fun!! Any way, back to the matter at hand. I adore Alice's character, I hope that I spelled her name right, I don't want to go through the book that is right next to me to look up her name. She is awesome! Her character is brilliantly discreet. Her past is hidden and yet her personality is so ecstatic. I love how she interacts with both Edward and Bella. The part I think that I love best is when Bella is telling Charlie about how Alice and Edward were playing chess and they were having such a hard time. How Edward could read her next move and how Alice could see what move he would make in the future. I wish that she would write another book, that would be great! I also heard that she is have her books made out into a move, which I am completely siked about. I just hope that the characters that I have set in my mind come to be portrayed in the movie. I hate how sometime when they make a movie from a book they change nearly everything, I hate that. They did it with Eragon. I couldn't stand fifteen minuets of the movie before I had to go out of the room. My friend and I have one of the same thoughts on that one.
On a side not, if you would like to talk about her books message me and I would be more then willing to chat with you.
Thanks and have a wonderful night!, VA♥
Today I read the book Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
I loved it so much that I finished it in a day! You should DEFINITELY read this. It was soooo romantic.
<< I can't wait to read the next book in the series. Heehee. Apparently there is another one coming called Eclipse. Can't wait!
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