Last night I couldn't sleep. No doubt that was a compounding of blinding amounts of repressed anxiety and a heavy day of my period.

But as a result, after a winding road of manga and school reading + most of The Matrix on TBS, I somehow found myself awake at an ungodly hour that was even shocking for a night owl like me. I turned on VH1's Fresh and they were playing this song that I was really enjoying but not paying much attention to (the video was trippy in the extreme so I averted my eyes when possible).

Fast forward to 20 minutes ago, I'm playing my Recently Added playlist on Winamp (a mishmash of mixes and random grabs from the amazing community known as fanmix). I absently comment on the fact that the song I'm listening to sounds eerily familiar.

Then it hits me that both songs, from VH1 and a Lost fanmix, were Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who I didn't know I liked, but there you go.

Anyway, providence is pretty cool that way.

In other news, I'm making steady progress in Sophie's World, and it is breaking my brain, but I am having so much fun as it leaks out of my ears. As someone recently said, c'est un mal, mais c'est un bon mal. Heehee.

Well, I was alerted to the awesomeness that is 50bookchallenge and 15000pages, which of course means that I must take part. I'm still sort of wrapping my head around apprx. one book a week, but as I've been set up to volunteer in a library, I figure I now have the perfect excuse to settle in with books as I am wont to do when I am separated from a personal computer. Of course, the deal may change when school starts up again and I am crying about never having personal time to do all the reading I want to do. Meh, can't hurt to have the sentiment, eh?

For the record: Just as a consolation for the prolific amount of manga I read, I'm instating the personal rule that 7 manga = 1 book and 200 pages. I figure that is a pretty fair rough equivalent to the amount of mental stimulation I get out of manga vs books. I've never tried to say that manga was all that good for my mental health. Manga is more for satisfying my emotional and hormonal needs, when it boils down. Anyway.

The current reading list: Right now, it consists primarily of classics I've always wanted to read, recommendations, Book Club stuff I've put off, and, of course, summer reading requirements.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (translation by Pauette Moller)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Odyssey by Homer (Penguin Classics Deluxe edition, translation by Robert Fagles)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Dover Thrift edition, translation by Arthur Waley)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (translation by Lucia Graves)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
A Nocturnal Expedition Around my Room by Xavier de Maistre (Hesperus edition, translation by Andrew Brown)
Also, if I feel particularly masochistic, Utopia by Thomas More (Penguin Classics edition, translation by Paul Turner)

After reviewing this list, I find it is overrun with Penguin Books publications and foreigners (both translated and emigrated).

Progress (start date 7/12/06): Updates hopefully once a week, or whenever the heck I can be bothered.

Pages:

70 / 15,000 (0.5%)

Books:

0 / 50 (0.0%)