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Frankenstein – An Update

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In the effort of sticking with my new year’s resolution, I am here again – blogging as I said I would and updating you on the things I have been reading, watching, and doing…just like I said I would. 

Imagine that. Following through on something….weird. 

Any who, I’m about 80 pages into Frankenstein. I must admit, I thought I would be voraciously devouring each word, yet, I’m struggling. I still find myself yearning to read about my coffee shop mysteries as Dr. Frankenstein cries himself to sleep in his room because of the disaster he has wrought. 

That’s definitely the best way to deal with a problem you created. Pretend it doesn’t exist until it “goes away.” 

That’s not really why I’m having such trouble digging into the novel. I think it’s more about pacing. The language is so descriptive and flowery. I wasn’t expecting the first 40 pages of the novel to be about a man on a ship who picks up Dr. Frankenstein. And maybe therein lies the root of it. Expectation. I have been inundated with the Frankenstein monsters and Young Frankensteins of the silver screen. Is there even really a bride of Frankenstein? Because if so, it will have a whole different meaning now. 

I’m not saying that I dislike Frankenstein. I’m just having trouble becoming immersed in it and lacking that craving to want to be constantly reading it at all times. 

I miss that feeling. I haven’t felt it in a while. The not-being-able-to-put-this-book-down-ever feeling. I haven’t yet found it in between the cover of Frankenstein, but I still have 120 pages to go. 

On another note, I only have one more grad school application left and I have begun training for another marathon. Not sure as to where or when, but the main point is that I have started. 

And sometimes, just like with Frankenstein, those first few pages or steps are the hardest part. 

 

(Sorry for the short post, but I just finished up a 10-hour kitchen shift, and my mind is feeling like a bowl of soggy cereal. The soggiest of cereals. I hate soggy cereal.)

New Year, New Reads

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I took a hiatus from this blog. I was busy wallowing in my sorrows. Then, I decided to run a marathon, so I was busy putting one foot in front of another for 26.2 miles. Then, I got a boyfriend. And well, romance in the real world is much more interesting than putting fingers to the keyboard and typing. Also, I was promoted to manager of a coffee shop. A coffee shop that was under going a great deal of transformation. The last thing you want to do after working a 14-hour day is open your laptop and struggle to be witty and smart and make intelligent sentences strung together to paint a picture about anything.

Also, my motivation was lost. It tripped and rolled down a mountain, and then fell off of a cliff, where it stayed crippled for a couple of years.

2013 has been a good year for change and motivation. I realized I don’t want to be in the food industry at all, much less managing it. This led to the beginning of my grad school search and application process.

This is still ongoing. So far, I’ve applied to one. Three more to go…Bah.

That’s where I am currently. Coffee shop manager, girlfriend to a boy, and runner. Also, a sporadic blogger. And sometimes, I watch things and want to write about them. Specifically TV.

Currently, I’m binge watching season 2 of “Girls”. As in, I’m doing that right now as I type these very words.

This show makes me feel pithy and witty. Maybe it shouldn’t. But also, maybe it should.

Back to the resolutions…blogging is one of them. Doing it on a consistent basis, mainly.

What will I be blogging about, besides the incessant amount of television I watch? New Year’s resolution #2: reading books outside of my comfort zone. My comfort zone has narrowed to coffee shop mysteries and other easy-to-read chick-lit novels.

And that fact makes me want to vomit on myself.

My goal, or resolution rather, is to read one book a month. And the only requirement of this book is that it must be “a book I have to read in my life.” Like Catcher In the Rye or Brave New World. I’m asking my literarily-inclined friends to pitch in ideas.

First up, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I somehow managed to miss being required to read this in my various Language Arts classes over the years and my boyfriend thinks it’s a must. So I’m doing it.

And then I’m going to blog about it.

And you’re going to read it. Maybe.

Aside from blogging and reading, I’m going to be running. I want to run another marathon this year, and with the help of a good friend, I hope to be doing that in 3 to 4 months time.

So here’ to running, reading, writing, and getting into grad school!

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