Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Nerdiness
Already Gone by John Rector
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A simple page turner that tried to set up lots of twists and turns. It was easy to read for sure, but it didn’t really hook me. My overall feeling was…. meh.
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My three day entrance into 2012 was in a word tiring. Lots of hosting and cleaning and serving and cleaning and serving. Goodness. I’m actually quite glad to be at work today so that I can relax.
First picture in 2012.
Last night around 10 I went upstairs and dug out an old journal that I started writing in the year 2000. It has big gaps but essentially hits the high points of the past 12 years. Back in 2001 I wrote the most and so much of it was about my daily life coming into work. I was still a student employee for the most part that year and so it’s odd to read about those days. My office and my work and all that. I was clearly much less mature and I spent the majority of my time worrying about my love life.
Now, a decade later, I have definitely risen through the ranks and grown. Yet I’m still here. Still in the same building that I’ve been coming to for years and years and years. I wonder if there are ghosts of my former self roaming the halls, because I certainly feel there are ghosts of the people who actually got out of here. It’s strange. Like an old hard drive, written over and over.
Basically – I feel old today. Like older than I’ve felt in a long time. I think I’m okay with that, but I sort of wonder how much further I can push this, because there will certainly be a time when I walk in one day and think back to when I was 32 years old and how young I was. I know how that goes, I just wish I could feel it.
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When thinking of a post title to wrap up 2011 I decided I would put on a song at random in my iTunes library and Bright Eyes’ “At the Bottom of Everything,” was it. Kind of perfect, huh? Marissa would be proud.
What to say about this year? I certainly didn’t do a lot to document it (bad me). I was happy almost always. When I was sad, it’s because I was watching a fine film or read something sad. With the one serious exception of Mike leaving CU. That was one of the worst days of my life and it was so hard to bounce back from that. But I did. He did. And he and I are better off for it.
Friends and family were great. Nothing new there.
I read 12 books, five in December. That seems crazy for me. There’s just some really beautiful words out there.
I wrote. Not enough of course, but enough to get those juices flowing again.
Today is the last day at work for the year. It’s been quiet for me. I love being here on this day. It always reminds me of the past. I can’t believe I’ve worked here for so long.
I’m sure I’ll be back with resolutions and all that, but I just wanted to mark this point in time and reflect on 2011. Nothing terribly specific to say about it, just that I was happy and I loved it.
“I’m happy just because.” ~At the bottom of everything.
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Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book literally caused physical reactions. Anger, fear, stress, happiness, and heart flutter after heart flutter. Like others, I couldn’t put it down. I had to know. Thank goodness there will be a sequel. I’ve never yearned for a character’s comeuppance so badly in my life.
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The Grail Conspiracy by Lynn Sholes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Another bargain book I got through a Kindle daily deal. It was a definite page turner and a fun read, no matter how far fetched. It was a solid piece with likable characters and a few twists I didn’t see coming. Unfortunately it referenced old technology by name which drives me crazy. Just something that we have to get used to in fiction these days.
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Stay with the demons you drown
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough…
:-)
the guy in the back omg
