Wait! Let Me Get to the Next Chapter!!!

So, I have started this blog because I am a reading/ writing fanatic and, as so, I feel like this first entry is appropriate.

Have you ever been in the middle of a really, really, REALLY good book and all you want to do is read it? Screw the messy dishes in the sink, the fact that the dog needs to go out and that you've needed to pee for the last hour and a half, I NEED to get to the next chapter? I'm in the middle of one of those right now, which isn't surprising because I have two five page papers due next week and all I want to do is read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in peace.

This seems to happen to most of the college students I know-- you are in the middle of a paper and/or finals warfare and all you want to do is read something completely non-school related. Scientific fact, college students procrastinate. Another fact, they choose non-school related to attach to before looking at the clock at four in the morning and thinking, oops, should have started that paper on Jane Eyre eight hours ago when I sat down to start writing it instead of watching The Little Mermaid for the 500th time.

I feel like this obsession with books isn't procrastination related...Okay, maybe a little. But I really do want to know what's going to happen. I'm in the middle of a 37-year-old murder mystery with interruptions from going to class, going to work, showering. All things that won't help me get to the end of the book.

My solution? A long, long vacation with nothing but the book, me and possibly my dog Romeo (who, despite his namesake, does not appreciate literature in the way I would like him to) so I can get to the end of that book. That's right, I'm locking the door and conquering the nearly 600 page monstrous book...Too bad Thanksgiving break is 3 weeks away.

Here's till next time.