Thurs, May 22
... When friends are hard to find
I can't believe I'm actually writing about a TV show on here. Good grief. What levels have I sunk to?
Having said that, here I go. I'm disappointed that Clay didn't win. That voice? Incredible. I will definitely buy his cd when it comes out (because we all know that one will come out). I can't say that I'm too disappointed, though. They're both very deserving finalists, and I'm sure that they'll both have incredible careers. Okay, I'm off my TV box for the moment.
I think I need to have a bunch of people over one of these days. Once Logan and Kate leave (Friday and tomorrow, respectively), I'll have no excuse not to have people over. I've got the place to myself, I can have snacks, movies, a place to hang out--if I'm lucky, this can be a good hang-out spot for a bunch of people. That would be fun. I'd like it a lot if people were comfortable just coming over whenever. I want to have an open, inviting house. I think that's really important.
I think that libraries are one of the greatest inventions ever. A place where I can get an unlimited number of new books to read for $10 a year? It's really quite a brilliant idea. Except for the fact that it's not letting me into the catalogue to look for books to put on hold. Grr.
I've never understood how people can not like reading. It's been second nature to me for as long as I can remember--I think I started reading when I was 3 or 4. Anyways, it's something that's always been such an escape, a way to learn without feeling like I was learning, a release of emotion and tension, a doorway into so many other worlds.
I've felt like I've known and loved so many of the characters that I've gotten to know, I've had my theology and my beliefs stretched and challenged, I've gleaned all kinds of useless facts about random things, I've learned proper grammar and sentence structure, I've discovered how people live in places other than my own, I've let myself feel and love deeply in a way that I didn't have the opportunity to in real life...
I love words. It's always baffled me how people can be so flippant about grammar, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, and communication in general. These are your words! These are what represent you to other people! How can you take them so lightly? My parents tried to keep me humble by pointing out the fact that people are good at different things. I'm not an athletic person--I'm active enough to be healthy, but phys ed was never my strong subject--and they used that as an example. There are some people to whom hockey is second nature, and they just can't understand how someone can't love it and be naturally good at it.
My response to that was that hockey isn't a life skill. A good command of the English language is. It'll get you a whole lot further than just being in good shape will. It's far more essential to be in good intellectual shape than pristine physical condition.
Wow. What a tangent. And all because I can't get into the library catalogue tonight, for some reason. Dang computer. Look what you made me do this time.
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posted at 12:08 a.m.
