Rainy Day Academics Nos 12 & 35
Today's match was, unsurprisingly, cancelled; so I have a free day. I was somewhat relieved, what with additional stress in my life (though I'm back at work ... ), so I'm on a rainy-day schedule: cleaning/housework, reading, surfing, hibernating ... the cat's a great help.
It's a cliché, but I'll say it anyway: wearing spectacles has made me see the world in an entirely different way: I can read the spines of books from distance (guess where I've been?), I deduce what no. bus is approaching, I know when the next train is leaving. No-one told me it would be this way.
More importantly, my concentration level has been ramped-up. I'm zipping through books without having to take regular breaks, or I feel less inclined to go a-wanderin' around the library. I look like a nerd and I feel like a nerd. I'm currently reading Suny & Martin's A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin , which thus far has disproved my theory (see entry passim) that compilations of academic articles are inherently dull. Either that, or I'm really dull.
It's a cliché, but I'll say it anyway: wearing spectacles has made me see the world in an entirely different way: I can read the spines of books from distance (guess where I've been?), I deduce what no. bus is approaching, I know when the next train is leaving. No-one told me it would be this way.
More importantly, my concentration level has been ramped-up. I'm zipping through books without having to take regular breaks, or I feel less inclined to go a-wanderin' around the library. I look like a nerd and I feel like a nerd. I'm currently reading Suny & Martin's A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin , which thus far has disproved my theory (see entry passim) that compilations of academic articles are inherently dull. Either that, or I'm really dull.