2007
spending time, away from everything
maura @ 9:02 pm
Today was a busy day — took Gus to school plus some internship time plus my first class of the semester — so I’m starting the week off behind on the newspaper already. Sigh.
Thus, in belated news, I’ve decided that there are just not enough Democratic presidential candidates, so I’d like to announce that I am entering the race! And also, Colorado is STILL HOGGING ALL THE SNOW.
Ahem.
So today I realized that I just need to accept the fact that while school is in session I will not have the time to read everything I want to read. Here’s my list of reading goals:
1. class reading
2. the paper
3. New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly (the latter is easy, takes about 20 minutes/week)
4. misc. library journals (hard copy, like the College & Research Libraries journals, LJ, etc.)
5. library news online/blogs
6. something fiction (except that the damn Calamity Physics book is STILL not in for me at the library!)
7. something nonfiction (still working on A Little History of the World)
8. something good for me (Strunk & White, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, etc.) (also sometimes 7 and 8 are the same book)
1-3 I can do. 4 is where things start to get more iffy: maybe I will carry an issue of American Libraries around in my bag for a few weeks ’til it’s good + wrinkly before I get a chance to read it.
5, oh 5, I have been trying with 5, but have I mentioned that librarians write A LOT? Realistically I am keeping up with the Library Link of the Day, because it comes right to my inbox every morning. And then once every couple of weeks I have a binge of a few hours or so.
6-8 are but a dream right now. But I’ve been thinking that I need to carve out some time for them, esp. 6. Gus could use a new chapter book, too (we had to reject The Wind in the Willows for now because the language is too archaic), so maybe I will drag him to the library someday after school this week.
2 comments on “spending time, away from everything”
You are psychic! I was just at the library MOMENTS AGO, and looked at the Beverly Cleary books. I didn’t see Mouse on a Motorcycle though, only Runaway Ralph. And Gus has been very into Roald Dahl and fairy tales lately, so I ended up getting him The Witches.
And for ME: two Steven Millhauser books, woo hoo!
Chapter book–Mouse on the Motorcycle! A tale (tail!) of how a bored young rodent finds freedom on a mini hog. Set in the great northwest (well, somewhere in the Sierras). Old, but the main anachronism is the fact that the parents want to get their son an aspirin!
Beverly Cleary rocks! She was a librarian; I think she spent alot of time eavesdropping on kids.