1. Central Market. Yesterday I visited this spectacular store for the first time and came away with Wisconsin white sharp cheddar cheese, olive oil crackers, two new kinds of tea (“All Day Breakfast” and “Vanilla and Almond Black Tea”), and quite a lot of Strongbow cider for the St. Patrick’s Day party coming up later this week. Central Market made me want to learn to cook, really cook, but I just don’t have the motivation or the time.
2. Speed Reading. I put The Farthest Shore on hold after reaching the halfway point and subsequently sped through a whole book in a couple hours. Granted, the memoir Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas is almost half white space, being composed of one- to three-page vignettes surrounded by empty page. And it was less than two hundred pages long in the first place. I ought to write my response paper about it for class while it’s still fresh in my mind but probably won’t. I detect a lack of motivation again. Hm.
3. Truancy. We inadvertently overslept this morning, missing church. Although we were perfectly well aware that it was Daylight Savings Time, we were dismally unaware that the cell phone that we use for our alarm would not update automatically. To (mis)quote the film Kingdom of Heaven, God will understand, and if not, He is not God.
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