lately i've been feeling quite restless with myself. it's an overwhelming feeling really, that feeling of...where is my life going? i'm not stressed out about it, i'm not sad, i'm just...restless. i've come out of this 'sick of school, sick of learning, i just want to have fun' phase of my post-college existence and have had this craving for a richer quality of life. at first, i thought this restlessness would get the best of me and that i would never be able to quench it, but i've come up with a few methods for my fix, which have subsequently turned into addictions.
1. "52 in '09" - my plan is to read 52 books in 2009. i decided this about a week and a half ago, so for a while, i will need to be averaging 2/week to catch up. i'm halfway through my 3rd book and feelin' good. I've read the first 2 Twilight books and am about to finish On the Road by Jack Kerouac. If you have any favorite books you'd like to recommend, give me a shout out ;)
- on a side note, i really love Twilight. like, really love it - i've gotten 2 of my coworkers to be vampire-obsessed with me, and 2 more are about to break. we've seriously turned into a book club of sorts.
2. beef up the netflix - i've added every film that has won an academy award for best picture over the last 20+ years or so (and many that were nominated). not to mention, movies with actors/actresses who won for their performances. i have truly started to appreciate cinema for what it is: a beautiful, living art form. i'll average about 2 movies a week (probably more). mindless chick flicks are going on the back burner for a while...unless they happen to have won a prestigious award. no offense to the romantic comedies (although it IS my favorite movie genre, after all).
3. i'm currently planning a few domestic vacations: Seattle, Washington - it is supposed to be very similar to Austin (swoon) and it's by the water. i've been doing a little online researching and i'm sold - definitely will be spending a weekend there in the next few months (ivy...we're doing it). i'm also planning a road trip that involves Nashville and Atlanta - i think Whit is going to be my accomplice, which will be a thrill ;) that will most likely be a 5 day adventure. KH and i also want to take a mini-vacay someplace where we can lay and soak up the sun and sip some margs. cozumel? cabo perhaps? it's in the works. now, about saving up the dough to get me to all these places....
so that's my simultaneous 3-step program. constantly reading, sporadically watching films, and perpetually planning trips. i'll let you know how it helps my curious case of restlessness :)
love/miss/namaste.
5 comments:
Marley and Me is great! Especially since you are a dog lover, unless you have already read it! Um, The Memory Keeper's daughter is good! The wedding by Nicholas Sparks is the book after Notebook, pretty good, I have a ton of books on my bookshelf that I have been told are good, but I have yet to read. I want to read Something borrowed soon, which I hear is really good!
I am personally going back and forth between Harry Potter and Twilight series, after I finish a book in each I move to the other series. This is really so that I don't read the Twilight books in like two weeks. Happy reading!
seaaaaattle.
sry i dint call you back tonight. it turned out to be a sucky day.
ill call you tomorrow. i love you a lot.
the beauty myth by naomi wolf, the feminine mystique by betty friedan, and his dark materials by phillip pullman :) happy reading!
The Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. They are like the rated "R" version of Twilight and HBO based the series "Tru Blood" off of them!! There are 7 and I am in the middle of number 4.
nice three point plan...might even copy it myself. also...totally feel ya on the twilight series. i was definitely skeptical at first with all the movie hoopla and what nots, but when a co-worker gave the first two to me for christmas, i devoured them. also, don't forget the last two-personally my favorites. Other books i've been catching up on lately are the classics-the picture of dorian gray, jane eyre, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde-somehow i never read these before so i'm putting the time in now. Also, I love fitzgerald and austen-they're like the love novels of the 18th and 19th century. Chris is trying to convince me to read Eragon and Eldest (the sequel) but i'm not sure yet-here's to being open minded-eh?
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