Yay for libraries and Jane Austen...
I discovered the Kirkland Library yesterday, and with my shiny new King County Library Card, proceeded to check out as many books as I could carry. Which has been much diminished since I started chemo, so I had Ian help as well. : ) May I just say that I love the Kirkland Library... it is completely awesome, and I can't wait to go back and explore more when I'm not, you know, totally exhausted and just wanting to crawl into bed. Now at least, I have even more books to crawl into that bed with. It's quite a good feeling. I've been reading a lot of Jane Austen related books lately, starting with Enthusiasm. I'm working on the Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy right now, and it's fantastic (thanks Tess for the suggestion). Next I think I'm going to conquer The Jane Austen Book Club and a biography I found that looks amazing.
Now that I've sort of gotten used to this whole chemo/cancer business, and gotten used to how I feel on any given day, I'm sort of seeing this time as an extra summer break. Sort of like, the Fates said "here Annie, have another medical issue, good luck, but on the plus side, you have six months to relax, chill out and do things at your leisure." I'm trying to see it that way anyway, as I'm still doing work and that kind of thing. But it's at odd hours of the day, like for four or five hours in the morning, then the rest at the end of the day. And it's pretty easy, mindless stuff. So I have plenty of time to hang out and read, and I haven't been taking advantage of it, because I've been so caught up in the misery of it all. No longer! From here forward, I will try to read for at least a few hours every day. When else am I going to have time like this again in my life? I don't plan to have cancer again, and I definitely plan to get out and do more once this is over, so might as well read as many books as possible while I'm resting.
And I'm babbling. I think it's still just the excitment of finding the library. Libraries tend to have that affect on me.
Now that I've sort of gotten used to this whole chemo/cancer business, and gotten used to how I feel on any given day, I'm sort of seeing this time as an extra summer break. Sort of like, the Fates said "here Annie, have another medical issue, good luck, but on the plus side, you have six months to relax, chill out and do things at your leisure." I'm trying to see it that way anyway, as I'm still doing work and that kind of thing. But it's at odd hours of the day, like for four or five hours in the morning, then the rest at the end of the day. And it's pretty easy, mindless stuff. So I have plenty of time to hang out and read, and I haven't been taking advantage of it, because I've been so caught up in the misery of it all. No longer! From here forward, I will try to read for at least a few hours every day. When else am I going to have time like this again in my life? I don't plan to have cancer again, and I definitely plan to get out and do more once this is over, so might as well read as many books as possible while I'm resting.
And I'm babbling. I think it's still just the excitment of finding the library. Libraries tend to have that affect on me.