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Well, I finished John Adams, so I am 1% done with my book goal for this year. I feel marginally guilty, of course, because I actually started it before 1/1, so I will probably end up reading another book or something to make up for it. That book was AMAZING, though; I was already obsessed with John Adams, but now my obsession is decidedly more informed. McCullough is a wonderful writer; as soon as possible, I think I want to try to read all his other stuff, too.
I finally got the big beautiful bookshelf from the garage moved into my room, and I was actually able to fit all the books on the wire stand in my closet in it, as well as a few from the living room. It is great; now, I can both actually see all the books I have and access them without having to duck under clothing, and move around more easily in the closet, which looks much the worse for the change, due to the copious notebooks strewn across the floor. I did not know that I had so many notebooks; I think I have about ten in there, plus about five in current use, plus a whole bunch of journals for various things. The trouble with all this is, I keep on wanting to make subject-specific notebooks, like ones for just math or just languages, but then I find out something really cool in another subject, grab the closest notebook at hand, and everything becomes a disorganized hodge-podge, with the result that most of my notebooks have entirely too many blank pages at the end. Today, I think I'll sort them, and see if I can devise a system that will prevent this from occuring.
Oh, joy. School starts back up soon... I expect I'll like it well enough once it gets going again, but right now I have absolutely no liking for it. I wonder if I have lessons today. Everything is so new and disorganized at the beginning of the year.
To-do list
-Write 1000 words for History Day
-Do 20 more trials for Science Fair
-Clean house
-Make myself some Jello
-Practice for AT LEAST an hour on the violin (I've really been slacking off on that lately, sometimes practicing as little as twenty minutes. I wonder what has gotten into me)
-Practice for 5 minutes on piano (obviously, I'm not so ambitious in this line...)
-Exercise
Better get to it! :-D
I finally got the big beautiful bookshelf from the garage moved into my room, and I was actually able to fit all the books on the wire stand in my closet in it, as well as a few from the living room. It is great; now, I can both actually see all the books I have and access them without having to duck under clothing, and move around more easily in the closet, which looks much the worse for the change, due to the copious notebooks strewn across the floor. I did not know that I had so many notebooks; I think I have about ten in there, plus about five in current use, plus a whole bunch of journals for various things. The trouble with all this is, I keep on wanting to make subject-specific notebooks, like ones for just math or just languages, but then I find out something really cool in another subject, grab the closest notebook at hand, and everything becomes a disorganized hodge-podge, with the result that most of my notebooks have entirely too many blank pages at the end. Today, I think I'll sort them, and see if I can devise a system that will prevent this from occuring.
Oh, joy. School starts back up soon... I expect I'll like it well enough once it gets going again, but right now I have absolutely no liking for it. I wonder if I have lessons today. Everything is so new and disorganized at the beginning of the year.
To-do list
-Write 1000 words for History Day
-Do 20 more trials for Science Fair
-Clean house
-Make myself some Jello
-Practice for AT LEAST an hour on the violin (I've really been slacking off on that lately, sometimes practicing as little as twenty minutes. I wonder what has gotten into me)
-Practice for 5 minutes on piano (obviously, I'm not so ambitious in this line...)
-Exercise
Better get to it! :-D