Reading

I am woefully behind in my reading for seminary courses. One of this semester's classes is heavy in philosophy and theological foundations. The readings are deep and complicated. You cannot just zip through skimming for big ideas. All the big ideas are packed tightly into a scant three or four hundred pages of deep rhetoric. Sigh. It is slow going. I count books. I need to basically read one book every day for the entire break. This will be challenging since some of the books, though only 300 or 400 pages, are dense.

I joke about reading until my eyes bleed. The truth is that after 2 or 3 hours of reading, I have trouble focusing on the print. They definitely used to use a very small font in days goneby (from which many of these dusty tombs come). I switch things up. I read a chapter, then do a load of laundry, then read another chapter, counting the pages, then do dishes, then read a chapter (can it be any more incomprehensible???) then walk Sugar. By evening I am so burned out I watch a mindless movie just for the change of pace. And this is only day 1. I eyeball the stack of waiting books and groan. Some holiday. Drew at least gets to sleep until noon!