So I'm relaxing on a faux-leather couch with some thick warm socks on my feet and a 90's + shoegaze + lo-fi mix churning in another tab. I have a Chinese final to study for but I'm lazy on Dayquil and leisure is a more important consideration at the moment. Non-drowsy my ass.
It's cold outside; hibernation weather. I've been in bed most of the last four days with a cold. Last night I woke up in a delirium, freezing cold, but drenched in sweat. My body was baking the disease out of me. It was frightening, but it passed. I'm feeling better today. An illness can be a great opportunity for refreshment--like a forced holiday. It not often that I'm even able to take government holidays. I should get sick more often.
Our house is a disaster right now. We moved in at the start of the month, and can't really unpack until the current tenants move out. Double-habitation at the moment. Again, though, it's like forced refreshment. No maintenance to do besides the little normal things like dishes. We haven't gone about the business of setting up standards of appearance for our furniture arrangements yet.
I'm an English major yet again. I made the decision three weeks ago, and time spent since has been like meeting myself again. I don't know what influenced me to do anything but English for the past 3 years, but I'm glad events converged to send me back this way.
I'm going to try to read all of the books on this list. Sci-fi & fantasy novels have never effectively interested me, but it is incontestable that they interest the rest of the world. I plan to set out to discover why. I am almost done with The Fellowship of the Ring, I'll post a review once I'm done. It is weird to read a book that is so much more than a book, but a massive pop-cultural phenomenon. It inhabits both worlds, and in 2013, I think it's futile to try to read it as just a book. For instance, Frodo is Elijah Wood in my head, and Middle Earth is New Zealand.
I set up an account on this site. It tracks my thoughts on movies that I watch. I like it.
I'm thinking about writing a story about a ghost who died of loneliness, but his death trapped him into the physical structure of the house in which he died, and it takes the courage and sensitivity of the current inhabitants of the now-subdivided house to free him from his loneliness.
I love this song.
Time for a nap...
About Me
- Justin Todd Smith
- I try to be kind, curious, and hard-working. I love my Tiana, my cats, rats, and dog. I'm interested in the future & the past, but I try to stay in the present.
3 comments:
I just openly cheered, much to the displeasure of the silence in my room, when you said you've decided to study English again. When I think back on some of the poetry and essays you shared with me from our adorable little music project and on, I still consider them some of the best writing i've ever had the pleasure of reading. Whether you consider your old writings juvenile or my repertoire of literature naive my opinion still stands, as it did back then, that you will be one of the greatest writers of our time. I'm elated and grinning from ear to freckled ear that you're back at it again. Please send me things that you're working on. I'd love to read them.
I like reading your words. I agree with Jeff on reading about your change in major.
PS I looove that NPR list of booooooks. There are sooooo many gooood ones there.
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