I worked out how to put a photo on my blog and how to change the colour of my text. Very exciting. It was spurred on by going to look at my sister-in-law's blog. She is a very fabulous English professor in Norway, and has written a book on blogging, which has been published in Korean. Korean!!!
So I was checking out her blog today (which she is taking a break from, cause she and my brother-in-law just had another baby - hurrah!), and I realize that there are all these things you can do on a blog, and all these questions start flooding into my brain. (What a surprise.) Again, (see yesterday) this is where that whole international family thing pisses me off, because I have a number of questions for Jill that I just wish I could ask her over a nice cup of tea and some biscuits. (Jill is Australian by birth and I keep wondering if that Aussie/Limey connection is the reason why I feel she understands me SO well! I love it when she comes to visit. Jill just makes sense to me.) I absolutely need to look at more blogs. In all my spare time....Oh and I need to order Jill's book from Amazon. Although, it would only be added to all the books I received for my birthday and some that I still need to read from Christmas (Jill's husband, Scott always sends me cool books, since he is an English professor also. He read philosophy in college - in England when you read a subject at university it means you are graduating in that subject, does it mean that here too? - Well, I used to pretend I knew what the fuck Scott was talking about, since I read philosophy too. As did Ricky Gervais. Weird.) So now I have this amazing pile of books that include - Jane Austen (my own purchase), Henry James (thanks Kyle!), two Temple Grandin books, two parenting books (eekk) Wolfe Hall, and the new one by the chippe who wrote The Namesake. But hey, if it's a book written by your sister-in-law, I think it would be placed right on the top of that pile.
Do you ever feel like you will just never read everything you want to read in your lifetime? And that doesn't even include all the New Yorker articles that come every week and I never even get near. Sigh....
What's with all the parentheticals? I have a tendency to use them a lot when I write casually, but man, this one was something else. Anyway, I definitely feel like I will never come anywhere close to read everything in my lifetime. Hell, right now, I feel like I'll never even get close to finishing the damn book about Lincoln which I started over a year ago. Maybe we'll get lots of time to read when the boys are old and have ditched us. Am I your first comment? Sweet.
ReplyDeleteAlso, sweet picture.
ReplyDeleteI like the picture, too! And honey, don't you dare buy a copy of my book, I'll give you one! Uh, except they're at the office, I think. But I don't thnk you need to read books like that to blog, anyway. I think I was lucky I started blogging before people knew what it was supposed to be, actually, because my favourite thing about it was that I could figure out what I wanted it to be all for myself :) I still have books from Christmas too. My sister gave me the latest Paul Auster book which I really am reading it's just that I'm reading it so slowly... I like it, I just have no time! Except somehow I managed to gulp down two of Aurora's young adult books in a few days while nursing so I guess it's more a question of reading WHAT.
ReplyDeleteI love parenthesis. We call them brackets at home...daren't do that now! They allow ALL my thoughts in! And you know there's a lot of them! Thank you kyle and Jill for being my first comments. I think it is perfect that it was you two out of everyone!
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