I am addicted to collecting books. I went to Hawaii last weekend and bought 14 books, then came home and ordered 8 more from Amazon. Easily 2000 pages of text. With my current schedule of non-essential reading of abotu 5 pages a day, that is over a year of books purchased in abotu 2 hours of effort. All this on top of a reading list that is close to 50 other titles of personal interest. Not to mention the 300 or so books and articles that I have to read and organize into a dissertation by the end of next month. Who am I kidding?
Add in my inability to reel my internet reading in and a new computer that is capable of playing the games from the last year that I've wanted to play but haven't been able to (namely Black and White, CivIII, Tropico, and WarcraftIII) as well as can now play with digital video.... Why do I keep buying books?
My Amazon wishlist is 15 pages long with 300 items on it, but there is a fair amount of DVD and CD material there as well.
I suppose I just need to unplug for a bit. A friend of mine is riding his bicycle from Utah to Idaho...goddamn but I am jealous of that. I still believe that taking solo road trips in a car are good for the soul, but what he is doing is just awesome. But I need to stay out of IRC and quit foruming (although in my defense I've stayed away from everything but contact with friends and a computing forum.
I want to build a kayak and paddle around Japan.
Man, this entry sucks. I meant it to be a lighthearted look at my book fetish, but its devolved into a pathetic autiobiography. I hope someone out there has bigger problems than me and can post here to make me realize that my life isn't so bad after all.
Posted by Nutrimentia at July 2, 2003 10:54 PM | TrackBack