been reading all night, avoiding the temptations of television and final fantasy, and i finished love in the time of cholera just before the day ended, accomplishing my goal. i think that was almost a hundred pages in an evening, which is pretty good for me. i don’t read very fast because i like to savor a good book. i read darwin pretty fast because there wasn’t much to pore over, but this one i took my time on. it just so happened that i was able to dedicate many hours to finishing it tonight and still taking my time. so worth it. very good book, at least if you like romance. which i do. ladies, keep that in mind.

tomorrow i’ll start the next one, a book of stories by jonathan swift; mainly gullivers travels and a modest proposal are what i’m interested in, but the book has a ton of other stuff in it too and it was only four dollars, so i might flip through the rest of it if i feel like it. or i might not because i’ve got three books in the queue behind it. i’ll let you know, because it’s so pertinent that i make my reading conquests public.

for the moment though my eyes deserve a rest. so i will sit and listen to the Mixtape of the Year (2001-2002 season) and relax.