Last night, I was in bed listening to music and doing some reading for class and two thoughts occured to me. First I haven't done really serious reading like this since the Academy. How did I not bore myself to death doing this? (For those of you unfamilar, the Academy was a magnet high school for gifted people for the junior and senior year. It was similar to a boarding school, but there students were not allowed to have cars.) I can't believe I was able to really entertain myself so well. But I think that I have been over-stimulating myself. When I was at the Academy, walking to the local drugstore was the highlight of the weekend. And going to diner took at least 30 mins. if not more. And second it reminded me of a trip that my mom and my sisters took one summer. My mom and Bridget and Lucy drove to North Carolina one summer to visit my sister Rachel when she was working there. For the sixteen hour trip, we had two tapes full of folk music (this is the source of the title). After we got back, I never thought that I wanted to hear any of the songs again, but now I really like at lot of the songs (and the songs were included on the CD I was listening to).
"I want to be the first chubby comic to live past 35."-Bobby Hill
Bonus quote: "My dad wouldn't use drugs. I say 'Good Day Sheriff"-Bobby Hill
2 comments:
and thus began my love affair with the rock island line
Well, the rock island line is a mighty fine road! I know you THOUGHT you hated those repeating folk songs, but you sure KNOW them now! Think of it as a cultural lesson.
What exactly qualifies as serious reading - and didn't you do any of it LAST year? Glad to hear that it's like riding a bike - you never forget how ;)!
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