Tutoring last night went fantastic! Our student (Rhye) was actually very smart, and she seemed to respond well to our instruction. It also was a bit of a bonding experience for me and Dan- being able to do something like that together. Though I'd been reviewing math and she needed physics help...
I just finished reading Slaughterhouse Five (by Kurt Vonnegut) this morning. I can't believe it took me this long to do so. Brilliant book, though I'm always sad when I find out something I really am enjoying reading is still going way over my head. It made more sense to me than Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle, which I didn't exactly struggle with, but I definitely didn't get everything out of it that I should have.
I used to want to be a writer, but I think I figured out so many of the best ideas have already been taken, and I'm not sure where I'd get new ideas. Research, I suppose. But it's ironic- I love reading, I love books, but I have the attention span of a gnat. I blame the internet.
Now that I'm done that book, I'm going to try to get more bug reading done for my job. I've been trying to get through The Red Hourglass, a book about black widows and other such animal predators. Non-fiction always feels like school to me, though, and it makes it harder for me to concentrate on. Curses.
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