Reading Update

( January through July )

 

AUGUST

17) The Terror by Dan Simmons (A+)
18) No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (A)

SEPTEMBER

19) Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (A)∞
20) Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (A+)
21) Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (...in progress)

∞previously read | ѧnonfiction

It's only September and I've already read more books than I did last year.  That's pretty awesome.  Obviously I don't have the kind of time I did a few years ago when I could read 60 or 70 books per year, but getting back over twenty makes me feel good.  Having a lit class that requires almost 200 pages of reading per week doesn't hurt either.

Panic...at the University.

Without warning, I have a French test tomorrow over all of the first chapter.  I have to study.  Thankfully it's a written test, because I'm much better at written than I am spoken French.  I still can't do my alphabet because I've only heard it once and the vowels are completely screwing with me because e sounds like i and o is oh but ou is oo,  Le fuck.

I'm trying to find a printing company that prints on matte paper.  I found a great place, but they will only do a batch of 100 or 250, nothing in between.  For the save-the-dates, I need about 125ish and they won't print that.  This place was great too, recycled paper and plant-based inks and all that environmental loveliness.

This semester is killing me so far.  I'm getting that drowning feeling and it sucks.  I have a 3-4 page paper due on October 4th, the same day I have my first anthro test, so that weekend is going to be shot.  I'll probably have another French test by then.  Hell, let's throw in a logic test as well.

I guess I'll start studying and reading while I eat and poop.