My confession... I have an addiction...

This may seem a bit awkward... If anything, I don't want you to be judged...
Please don't think anything less of me...
This is quite embarrassing...
but I have an addiciton...
to books.

I have tons of them all around my apartment... every room has books in it... I've got a stack of Archaeology and Nat Geo magazines piled 3 feet high in my bathroom, I've got stacks of books in my livingroom with no bookshelf to house them... some even under my lamps because of lack of space. I hate clutter in my house, but I think book clutter is a different kind of clutter... what say ye?
 Most of the books I own, I haven't been able to read yet, but I've read a little bit in each of them...


Homer's Iliad taken with my iPhone
using Hipstamatic



School keeps me very busy with required reading. We're 6 weeks into the semester and I've already read Homer's Iliad and I have to have Herodotus' The Histories finished by next week, which, if you know anything about those books, is a LOT of reading... my Greek Civ professor is nuts! Next week, we'll read The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, then we'll read Xenopohon's Persian Expedition. Reading all of that and taking a Critical Thinking class and learning an ancient language, Hebrew, is very time-consuming while working 40 hours a week...



Even so, I still feel the need to constantly buy books... even if I know it's going to be a very long time until I can actually read them.

I even subscribe to the Library of America, which sends me a beautiful American classic every month... it makes me happy...

and here's the kicker of the whole shebang: 

Lately, I've been having a few health issues and those closest to me have been telling me for months that I need to go to the doctor. I've refused because I hate spending money on doctors... why? because i want to buy books... Today, Danielle finally told me, "if you make a doctor's appointment, I'll get you a new bike pump and a new book..." immediately, my interest was peaked. I pulled out my insurance card and we got to calling doctor's offices. I set up an appointment and off we went to Barnes & Noble. To think that I wouldn't go to the doctor for my health problems until I was promised a book says a lot for my addiction...

By the way, I got TWO books I've been wanting for a while, one about Celtic myth and the other about Norse myth... neither of which I know anything about... other than what I learned from the Thor comics. Thor, son of Odin (the Zeus counterpart), god of thunder, I believe... big hammer... badass... and Loki, evil brother of Thor... that's it.
Anyway, they'll sit on my shelf until i get the chance to read for pleasure again after the semester is over...

Despite all of this, I'm going to try to get a video to you this weekend... no promises though... if anything, it may just be a conglomeration of various random things I've recorded over the last couple months, such as the Civil War cannon demonstration we went to at Wilson's Creek Battlefield recently...

Take care! Enjoy a great cup of tea (or coffee, but tea's healthier and tastier so nyah!), get outside (especially in this beautiful mild weather while it lasts! Try your hand at geocahcing, rent a canoe, go camping, ride a bike, or go for a hike! you can even go for a scenic drive! check out an article Danielle wrote about a weekend local roadtrip at http://wwww.examiner.com/road-trip-travel-in-springfield/weekend-roadtrip it says Springfield roadtrip, but it applies for anywere), just enjoy your life and relax and experience something new and cool as often as possible!
Peace!