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My friends, dutiful students that they are, have been talking about their summer reading for quite some time now. I'd reasoned that I wouldn't be doing too much reading in Abilene anyway (wrong, as it happened; I'd failed to take into account that John clings to his video games even while being forcibly dragged away) and decided that I therefore didn't need to rush out to find the books as soon as school was out. But we've been back for more than a week now - and finally, feeling mildly guilty because Megan had been telling me how she was already through several of the books, I reminded my parents of the necessity. Thus the trip to Barnes and Noble's this evening; thus also Peter's three monumental tantrums, although I imagine he would have found another pretext to get those in, anyway. The child considers a day in which he hasn't managed to thoroughly aggravate everyone else in the family to be a day wasted... I digress. This is, after all, certainly no new development.
The required books looked out just about as riveting as I'd expected - Cold Mountain is good, Megan tells me, but this, typically, was the only book on my list not in stock. Summer reading = boredom, then. On the other hand, though, browsing for something to use a birthday gift card on, I discovered that the store had a foreign language section...
Duh, Emily, you're saying, rolling your eyes, maybe - but I'd seriously never thought about it before. ^^; Browsing there quite made up for the reading list annoyance - I'm a geek, I know, but I love languages. French and Spanish were standard school fare, boring; nor am I fond of the way German sounds. But a bit of searching turned up Gaelic, Greek, and Japanese too - decisions, decisions. ~^ Gaelic I've recently fallen in love with, though my pronunciations and the bits I've picked up are Scottish rather than Irish; Greek literature would be easier to find, though, I guessed - and mythology is another of my quiet obsessions. ~.^ Besides, there was a introduction to Greek on sale for a third of the price of any of the others... Wistfully, I examined a set of CDs teaching Japanese, but the gift card wouldn't cover both. And my mom had inquired, laughing, just how many languages I wanted to learn at once...
I didn't tell her about the Finnish or the Hawai'ian, either. Hmn. >.>
*wry smile* Now that I've bored my non-existant readership out of their skulls, I suppose I'll go back to this silly boring book...