YAWN.

Blogged on Sunday, March 9th, 2008 by Rachael. Filed in Blog365, Philosophical.

Twice every year, I become extra annoying. Every time we have Daylight Saving Time here - and I still haven’t figured out which one is ‘on’ and which is ‘off’ - I go around for the next few days reminding everyone around me what time it was, right now, BEFORE the time change. As if they care, right?

Did you know that right now the clock says it’s 11:06am but YESTERDAY, at EXACTLY this time, it was 10:06am?! HAHA!

I’m so hilarious!! Anyway.
Last night before we went to bed, we made sure to turn all the clocks forward. ALL of them. Because as any of you with children know (or if you remember doing this when you were a kid), if you leave just one thing unchanged, that’s the thing they notice and are confused by. I had to sneak into their rooms at 1:12am and change their clocks to 2:12am, just so that nobody would wake up this morning and start an argument about what time it is because MY CLOCK SAYS IT’S THIS TIME and YOURS MUST BE WRONG and NO MINE IS ALWAYS RIGHT and of course MOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH1!!!11!1!!!!

So then Troy and I did the adult thing and stayed up far too late because, you know, we weren’t tired yet (arg), because we’re stupid like that. So now I’m nursing a giant mug of coffee while the kids happily play like normal, because they don’t agonize yet about losing versus gaining an hour of sleeping time, and how it always seems to coincide with crazy sleep schedules anyway, and augh, why don’t we live somewhere (Arizona!) where they don’t use this barbaric time system!

This is completely unrelated to all of that time-related angst, but I’ve gone and binged at the library again. This time, however, I am trying to READ all the books before they’re due back, instead of looking longingly at them while I’m working or doing something else, then returning them a few days late because I’m just so positive that I’m going to have time to read it TONIGHT! Really!

Here’s the list of books I have checked out right now (and the ones I’ve already started are in bold):
On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfort
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott
Plan B, by Anne Lamott
A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby
The Reincarnationist, by M.J. Rose

I shit you not, I checked out the Stephen Hawking book because ‘A Brief History of Time’ was NOT BRIEF ENOUGH for me. I could barely get through it in the several weeks of check-out time I got, which is horribly ridiculous, because I used to read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in less than two weeks back when I was still in the habit of re-reading that every six to eight months or so. Sigh. Those were the days, when I had so much more time for reading and for actually assimilating the material I read.

I could still read fast now - I do - but I don’t retain nearly as much as I used to. It’s a real bitch to speed-read your way through a great book and then realize that you couldn’t have an intelligent conversation about it with someone else who’d read it, because you don’t remember enough of it.

One of my goals for this year is to actually READ some books. Not just skim them or check them out and stare at them for a few weeks. Actually read them. Maybe I need to get off the computer now and go finish one.

(Oh! Did you know - that yesterday at this EXACT TIME, it was AN HOUR EARLIER than it is right now?! I know, right?! *Yawn*)