feeling pretty shitty lately. i dont think that gingko shit is good for me. sometimes it makes me feel a bit dizzy, slow and stupid - kinda like a stone, but without the pleasure. i should read up on it and probably quit it. maybe my moods have been rubbing off at work, because benzino has been having some hardcore hissy fits. i can tell he's pissed off, but he just wont talk. i think he's been hanging out with girls way too much. i think he said most of his friends are girls - no benefits tho. i donno.
totally losing grip on the work situation. benzino is now de facto running the site, and i'm the helper. except i'm also like a consultant. i like that part of it. i could chalk most of it up to seasonal affective disorder or something, and the recent cold temperatures. the closing in of christmas. the crappy situation on my account. the unfinished side jobs, people calling about new ones. i dont wanna do anything but listen to my stories and watch movies. and boogie. she's so cute. but sometimes she drives us up the wall. most often me.
i just wanna be a spectator for a while. an extended while. get stoned and enjoy. go to sleep when i burn out.
looks like i'm actually gonna have to read some books. count zero and monalisa overdrive are apparently not available in audio format. it might look weird for people to see me there, just sitting at the site. maybe if i went and read it on my coffee breaks at the starbucks...
pattern recognition was really cool. now i just started listening to virtual light, but its somehow different. i think i should do some kinda course that would improve my information extraction from spoken word. i really wanted to use the word 'aural' though... :)
that and speed reading. if i could speed up my reading speed, maybe reading books would be a more plausible activity for my tight schedule. as i perceive it.
i should go. my parents are waiting for me. i said i could install an outside outlet for their christmas lights. this is gonna be interesting.
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i didnt know things were so shitty at work... i didnt realize how crappy youve been feeling. thinking too much about my own stuff i guess. maybe tonight we could make a list of all the unfinished crap we need to handle. then maybe we can start to get organized and you wont feel like youre drowning as much. i wish i could help make things easier for you. but i dont know how i guess...
i love you.
All that talk about books... these days I have no time for books. I average, like, two books a year, and that is a sad-sad rate. I miss the days of prolific reading. I suppose I could make more time for reading, but that time has to come from somewhere like blogging, or gym, or work, or father-daughter time.
introducing - books on tape!
well, now its audio books, they can be on a cd or a straight mp3. listen in your car, on the bus, while working, and working out. press pause for those annoying moments when the so-called "real world" requires your full attention ;)
I've been a bit resistant to audiobooks. I don't know why exactly. Perhaps I should discard my preconceived, unfounded bias and give them a try.
i know - there's a smugness and a sense of superiority that people who read books seem to feel over those who... dont. audio book listeners seem to fall into the contemptuous category of wannabe's. in my defence, i used to read quite a bit, but with the advent of the internet and the availability of good tv channels, my book reading quickly dwindled down to nearly nil. then as my life got busier, more work, and the whirlwind of pregnancy-marriage-buying a place-birth of baby thats been the last year, reading books has simply not been an option. but i do have about an hour that i waste driving to work every day, and another driving back, and sometimes when i do pretty repetitive work - these are opportunities! why should i miss out on cool stories, speeches, etc, just because i dont have time to read?
but what about those people who just dont read books, and have never been any good at reading, but who retain information from spoken word just fine? reading is just a skill, for which some people are predisposed better than others. unfortunately, the ability to read proficiently has 'traditionally' (as far as that fairly new tradition goes) been rolled in together with being 'smart', and maybe to a degree, if ur looking from the other side of the fence, with being geeky. audio books are practically the only avenue thru which poor readers might gain exposure to certain works, works which, one might hope, may prove crucial in their development. hehe, i wonder if there's an audio version of "mein kampf" :D
ps.: yes, there is. apparently the book is outlawed in some countries, and is allowed in some others in appropriately annotated editions. the way i see it, its the way to go. if you prohibit something, those who really want it will get their hands on it somehow anyway. so make it available, with a bit of good old 'parental guidance' :D
audio books are awesome. i only listen to them when i'm on the road. i started when i realized that music was no longer keeping me awake on my late-night jaunts to oregon. rent a gripping book on tape from the library, and the miles flew by...
it really helped when our planned 8 hour return to vancouver a couple weeks ago turned into a 14 hour drive... ugh.
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