umbrellas and free books

[verbminx]

Tired today... not enough sleep the last few nights, but at least I got up at a decent time this morning (yes, MORNING). I went to bed pretty early last night because I was tired and had a fever. I wonder if it is my new lot in life to spend every Sunday night with a fever, since that seems to be the pattern for the last month of Sundays. I sat in bed and watched anime, with a cool wet washcloth on my forehead, pumped up with Tylenol. My mom brought me chunks of watermelon and a drink-umbrella pick to eat them with! I love those little paper parasols...

Yesterday I was able to find, online, something I've been looking for offline that's either been difficult to find or too expensive: copies of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Boswell's Life of Johnson. Yay for etexts. I've also found that people on Kazaa put up .pdfs of various books, so I've downloaded a few ebooks that I already own in paper format, for the convenience of having onscreen copies - the William Gibson "Bridge Trilogy", Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, etc. And Bartleby now has a "Harvard Classics" shelf, so you all can now derive the benefit of a 1900s Harvard edumacation with a lot of dry reading. (I think at least a third of the books up there were classics a hundred years ago but are now somewhat out of favor.)

New SOTW up later today, probably.

Comments

[bioproject.livejournal.com]

1. Tell me how Decline and Fall of the roman empire is, I've always wanted to read it.
2. That classics shelf seems really tempting (color me nerdy)

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[verbminx.livejournal.com]

A) why, here's a "best of" page! http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html

B) i feel like a total nerd, but yeah.
i can console myself by saying, well, most of that list that i would want to read, i've already read. or seen the movie. you know, whatever. (nothing could induce me to read the mill on the floss... it's DEPRESSING...)