MMM: Booktracking, 15 years
filed in books, life on Nov.17, 2008
This is the time of the year where I generally stop putting in Hold Requests for new books at the library. Why? Because there are usually several books I’ve started but not finished that I try to double-back and finish before the end of the year. I’ve got one that’s been dangling for two years or so, and I think it’ll continue to dangle into next year.
In any case, I feel like I should backtrack a bit…I call it Booktracking. At least now I do, because I so enjoy making up new words. So I’m going to attempt to finish the five or six books I’ve started but not finished this year.
And then I had to go and by the new Ender book, plus three others (The Impossible Faith, The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. Oh well…maybe I’ll be able to resist them until next year. Yeah.
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My sister and brother-in-law and their kids are here. And I just had a birthday (I’m now over 21 again). This was the first time since 1993 I’d had a family member around on my birthday. Yeah. 15 years. Now if they’d only move down, we wouldn’t have this problem!
November 21st, 2008 on 4:26 pm
backlogs
I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to collecting media. Maybe it came from the Usenet fire hose mentality: if you don’t get it 2 days from now, its gone. The end result is too much stuff to watch, too little time.
My current record for procrastinating is 7 years, I finished a series (Noir) in 2007 that I started in 2000.
Then there are things that just keep piling up. I’m reading 6 months behind my subscription to Scientific American magazine.
(I’ll catch up on Heroes eventually)