Friday, October 4

i love books.

this love, however...it is both a wonderful blessing and a curse to me.

i've just finished reading amy tan's the bonesetter's daughter. books are so dangerous; once you start, you lose track of time. you look up and all of the sudden it's 5:15am. bah.

but what a wonderful book. i don't know if it is because i'm getting old, but passages and phrases leap out at me as i read, words and phrases made just so, to become beautiful and powerful. i love good writing....

unfortunately, this means my study day tomorrow (today?) will start off on the wrong foot.

this reminds me of 1st yr of med school, when i was cramming the night before for an exam. for some reason, i decided to start reading chaim potok's the promise at 1 am. i finished it at 5am, and when i looked up at the clock, i couldn't believe what i had just done. i had just given away that CRUCIAL, precious, cram time, to read a BOOK. what was i thinking? i almost cried as i crammed the cram material in 3 hrs for the exam at 8am. there are times, when i wonder, how did i possibly make it this far? you KNOW God is with you when you are a clown like me, yet still afloat...

i have that same eerie feeling right now, as i did several years ago, looking at the clock. what was i thinking?! this negates the good studying i accomplished during the day...

comments

kristi @ 01.39.am | October 08, 2002

btw, my mom sent me the bonesetter's daughter, and it made me lose some time, too.. i guess, since my parents are getting older and whatnot...
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tammy @ 12.23.pm | October 04, 2002

Wow, a kindred spirit. Were it not for Leo Tolstoy and David Sedaris, I would have graduated Magna cum Laude I tell you! ok, probably not. although, I get the sense that you do a good job balancing the two.



yakob at 5:25 AM

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