Water Your Mind

AND READ!

Summer reading.

The St. Louis County Library has a new summer reading program.  It's something about how we should grow with reading so we need to water our minds.  Or maybe that's the other way around.  But, needless to say I'm doing it because I love the summer reading program.  If you read 10 books you get entered into a drawing for free stuff.  How cool is that?  Especially since I love reading.  

So far I've read two new books and re-read one.  The new books are The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen and Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.  The latter of the two was really good, but a sad one.  The first one was good but left a lot to be desired.  The book that I re-read was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  Obviously that's a good book.  In fact, most teen fiction geared at younger teens is great (i.e. The HARRY POTTER series).  Not that I like that one.

The current book I'm reading is entitled Say You're One of Them, which is a collection of short stories, based in Africa, put together by Akpan Uwem.  It's hard to get through because it is so sad.

Finally, I'm waiting for a book called The Magicians.  I'm just going to link it so that anyone who wants can look at it.  I'm very excited.

Reading is one of my favorite pasttimes because it allows me to have an outlet into other worlds.  Which is pretty great. 

Fini

Well, I'm finished with work until finals. So I'm thinking about sitting around and drinking all week. But then I thought about how much that would cost me, so I decided against. Instead, I'm going to do nothing, which I think is wonderful. I mean listen to this: I got all my homeworks done and just took a test. That's it until finals. I'm stoked.

However, I'm also a little bit scared. I'm almost a real adult. Well real-ish. Six months of no classes or tests or anything. And then Med School, which I'm sure will be hell. But I'm ready. To get ready, I'm going to relax it up all semester. I'm going to do things that I haven't done in a long time. I'm going to go to the library and READ books and check out movies and actually WATCH them.

And the other thing that I'm going to do is sleep!! Whoohoo!!!

On a side note, we're watching Oprah right now, and it is about a seven year old schizophrenic. Her parents are living in two different apartments in order to keep their baby son safe. This is dedication. They definitely deserve an award.