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I want to start reading again

posted by [personal profile] pmsumner at 12:03am on 20/10/2005 under ,
I don't read any more. I don't know when I stopped. It's not that I don't have the time - I do. I have more free time than I care to think about and spend so much of it doing nothing (watching TV, internet, half-asleep).

I started to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment a while back but it's fallen by the wayside. Not that I wasn't enjoying it - I was really liking it even though it was hard work. Maybe I should set aside a half-hour or so in an evening and use that for reading. Might give that a try tomorrow evening...

Made it to the gym this morning - OK I only did some swimming but still, it's all good, right? Tomorrow I'm hoping to make it again. Guess I'd best get to bed then.

[EDIT: And I still haven't found my blasted P60... I swear it's got to be here somewhere! Where the hell did I put it?]
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posted by [identity profile] mistressmedusa.livejournal.com at 11:45pm on 19/10/2005
hmmmm... we should take a holiday to the middle of no where. and bring lots of books!

I could use a good read as well.... I think I have a stack of 7 books wiating, freshly bought, begging me to read them. and one of them is over 1000 pages long!
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 09:07pm on 20/10/2005
one of them is over 1000 pages long

What on earth is that?!
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posted by [identity profile] mistressmedusa.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 20/10/2005
House of Leaves...

its supposed to be really scary..... so I suggest we find a remote dark-ish forest to get the full spookiness effect!
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 02:44pm on 21/10/2005
So it's gotta be a dark forest with no-one around for miles and lots of animals to creep around making branches creak and lots of wind to make the leaves swish in the dark. The moon HAS to be full, and it has to be dry and nice and warm.

That's a good way to read spooky stories *G*
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posted by [identity profile] mistressmedusa.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 21/10/2005
ooooh.. that's the best way to read a spooky book. so when is this vacation? I can be packed in an hour? :)
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 03:06pm on 21/10/2005
I'll pick you up in a hijacked 747 in about 8 hours, OK? :)
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posted by [identity profile] mistressmedusa.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 21/10/2005
SWEET! I'll be waiting!
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posted by [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com at 07:43am on 20/10/2005
Try Catch-22. It's surprising;y upbeat and delightfully plotless so far (I'm on about page 80) and you still get the feeling of having read something everyone's meant to.
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 09:03pm on 20/10/2005
*smiles* Surprisingly upbeat is good! It's another on the big list that I really must read. Thanks for the suggestion! Anything that gets me back into the habit helps.
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posted by [identity profile] spindr.livejournal.com at 10:36am on 20/10/2005
OK I only did some swimming

Swimming's excellent for you - fab combo of cardio and resistance workout. I've never felt fitter than when I was swimming a mile or so a day.

Also, if you want to get back into reading why not take yourself to a coffee place/pub on a sunday armed with a book and sit there quietly - it makes you feel so self-indulgent, it's great!
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 09:06pm on 20/10/2005
My weekends are jealously guarded. I currently work Tue-Sat and will be changing as of a couple of weeks to working Sun-Thu, and my weekends are generally spent with the g/f who lives bloody miles away!

My only "me" time is evenings. Well, I say evenings but I really mean late nights *G* If I had my way, my day would run something like: sleep 4-5am through till midday, work 1-9 :)

Swimming a mile a day? Are you insane?! How many lengths of a standard pool is that?
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posted by [identity profile] spindr.livejournal.com at 09:25pm on 20/10/2005
Ah - Long Distance Relationship - they're kickers, so much sympathy!

Of a 25m pool (don't know how standard this is, but it's the length of the one in my gym) a mile is 64 lengths. It's very peaceful - all you can hear is your breath and the water; really gives you chance to think. I like swimming, lots!
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 21/10/2005
That's a lotta lengths! Right now I am truly unfit (though improving in huge leaps) so I'll use that as a target ;)

And yes indeed - long distance relationships do suck arse. Hence my constant scheming in here to get a new job. The idea of just giving up my current one and temping is growing stronger day by day!
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posted by [identity profile] wandering-sag.livejournal.com at 02:16pm on 22/10/2005
Do you like crime? Read Linda Fairstein if you do--she's good :)
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