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February 17, 2005
So Many Books, So Little Time
After suffering through the holiday break with little to read, today I find myself with an almost embarassing surfeit of books....but no time to read them. It all started last week when I needed to order this PHP book from Amazon. Not enough to qualify for free shipping, so I also ordered this, which I've been wanting to read. Yes, I know I spent an extra $12 or so to get 'free shipping'. But I'd been looking for an excuse to buy it, and since I needed the PHP book for class....voila! Instant rationalization!
Then Mike ran across a good deal on an autographed copy of this, so he surprised me with it the other day. And yesterday, we found a copy of this that we couldn't pass up. Unfortunately, the PHP book is the only one I'll really have time to read in the near future....unless the evil Rita wins and I waste a couple of days reading them all & neglecting my schoolwork.
Confession time. I'm an obsessive-compulsive reader. Always have been. I'd rather read than just about anything else. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing....though my ex once angrily accused me of 'reading to escape from the world'.
Well, freaking duh.
I also like to read because I'm pretty curious about things and how they work, and I like to learn new things. But I accepted years ago that I have a compulsion to read, much like an alcoholic has a compulsion to drink. So having unread books about the house is much like waving a six-pack under the nose of an alcoholic 24/7.
On the other hand, if I can get my homework done in the next couple of days, I can take a day over the weekend and feed my compulsion by reading at least one of the books. A little added incentive, you might say.
Like I always say, anything can be good or bad.....just depends on what you do with it.
Posted by Rita at February 17, 2005 10:39 AM