Hmmm... Where does one pick up where they've left off? Meanwhile I've been stuck pondering that very question seven months have passed by. I don't know that I can recall everything that has happened during the lapse, in sequential order even, actually I rather doubt that I can, but I guess as noteworthy past events become relevant to what is currently going on I'll get around to addressing them. That sounds like a plan to me.
I'm off from school at the moment... winter break. I've been using my downtime to accomplish a lot of reading. I picked up The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck because it has been for a long time a book I wished to read and I also thought it would keep my brain engaged. My first taste of it was an excerpt in a children's book filled with short stories that I seem to recall that my mother had given me one Christmas - it made an impression on me and I never forgot about it. It just took me a while to get around to reading it in it's entirety. Something interesting to note is that the author was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. After having completed The Good Earth, I found myself in the mood for yet another vampire book. Since Charlaine Harris's next Sookie Stackhouse book won't be out until May, I decided I would explore what other options were available to me. I ran across Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison (which, appropriately enough had a recommendation from Charlaine Harris right there on the cover) at Barnes and Noble. This was Harrison's debut novel and in my humble opinion, it was reasonably entertaining.
At the moment, I am rotating through four books (in order of closest to completion): Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Reflexology - A Basic Guide by Beryl Crane, and The Velveteen Principles - A Guide to Becoming Real by Toni Raiten-D'Antonio. I selected Brave New World for more along the lines of brain stimulation, the reflexology book because it is a passing interest of mine (I *love* receiving foot massages and it would certainly be interesting to have a better idea of what areas of the body correspond to the places on my foot that feel best when stimulated), and The Velveteen Principles is a book that found it's way to me this past Christmas, via my dear aunt Lil (who happens to be very much in-tune with me and my spiritual needs.) I am also more than half-way through "mental_floss", a magazine that caught my attention while I was creating a wishlist for myself on Amazon.com. I'm not quite as impressed as I thought I might be with it.
And it is because of all of this reading I have been occupying myself with that my sleep cycle is all out of whack. Lately, I have been going to bed somewhere between the hours of three and four a.m. and crawling out of bed sometime after noon. I decided to put a end to that once and for all (since my schedule needs to be back to normal before classes start back up on the 24th) by not going to sleep this morning. This all translates to the fact that Andrew is going to have quite the time with editing this entry :0. Good thing he loves me, or else I'm sure he wouldn't do it. [Andrew: Of course I love you.]
-- CrystalShiloh @ 03:30 PM