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Jul. 14th, 2014 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeGiven that I couldn't remember where the fuck I was last time, I am putting down here that I am on page 104 in Twilight Watch. I am also hitting the point where if I have most of the vocab of a sentence (and the remaining bits are either particles or words related to words I know) I can extrapolate the missing and, it turns out, be generally right.
I've managed to get a third of the way through Long Walk to Freedom, which is exactly as much of a slog as you'd expect, for exactly the reasons you'd expect. Or that I expected. Actually, no, some of it is because there are endless names of politicians, lawyers, fellow freedom fighters, and other people that Nelson Mandela worked with, which is a bit odd and yet kind of ... it's a lot like listening to my grandfather talk about his work, which is its own kind of comfort. But there's also discussion of villages burnt and people beaten, fired from work, etc, and that part's hard.
Ugh. So many things I want to do! Just the list off the top of my head and from chat this morning, finish reading and taking notes on the Revelation books 1 and 2 (the titles escape me, not that I think the Book of Revelation comes in two parts), read the Henrietta Lacks book, finish Long Walk to Freedom, Dominion/Martine/angelverse dime novel, Nerd Girls, Sandborn edits, White Lightning draft, scarves to dye and spin, gardening stuff, maintain Russian/French/Spanish/German, finish Irish book, study Japanese/Latin, and now to that list I have this urge to add code classes to re-up my HTML/CSS learnings and maybe some other free online university type classes as well. Or inexpensive. And I don't have time. Argh. I really, really need to chunk down some of these one-off things like the note taking and just get that the fuck over with. Don't even ask about the state of the blog. I'm ashamed. So shame. Much embarrass.
Okay, no, really, that's enough of that. Especially if I'm going to get any chunk of this done today in between answering phone calls (oh poor lady, no, we are not a sporting goods store) and stocking the front and so on. I have had my fifteen minutes of panic, now it's time to shut up and work. I can panic again when I get home and look at all the gardening I need to do.
I've managed to get a third of the way through Long Walk to Freedom, which is exactly as much of a slog as you'd expect, for exactly the reasons you'd expect. Or that I expected. Actually, no, some of it is because there are endless names of politicians, lawyers, fellow freedom fighters, and other people that Nelson Mandela worked with, which is a bit odd and yet kind of ... it's a lot like listening to my grandfather talk about his work, which is its own kind of comfort. But there's also discussion of villages burnt and people beaten, fired from work, etc, and that part's hard.
Ugh. So many things I want to do! Just the list off the top of my head and from chat this morning, finish reading and taking notes on the Revelation books 1 and 2 (the titles escape me, not that I think the Book of Revelation comes in two parts), read the Henrietta Lacks book, finish Long Walk to Freedom, Dominion/Martine/angelverse dime novel, Nerd Girls, Sandborn edits, White Lightning draft, scarves to dye and spin, gardening stuff, maintain Russian/French/Spanish/German, finish Irish book, study Japanese/Latin, and now to that list I have this urge to add code classes to re-up my HTML/CSS learnings and maybe some other free online university type classes as well. Or inexpensive. And I don't have time. Argh. I really, really need to chunk down some of these one-off things like the note taking and just get that the fuck over with. Don't even ask about the state of the blog. I'm ashamed. So shame. Much embarrass.
Okay, no, really, that's enough of that. Especially if I'm going to get any chunk of this done today in between answering phone calls (oh poor lady, no, we are not a sporting goods store) and stocking the front and so on. I have had my fifteen minutes of panic, now it's time to shut up and work. I can panic again when I get home and look at all the gardening I need to do.