I took a bit of a break over the summer. I had some stuff goin on but really I just got lazy with blogging. BUt classes start tomorrow and so does 'normal' life.
In my life I don't think that I would ever have said that I was a reader. As a kid I though it wasn't cool to read alot. It wasn't interactive enough. I liked hands on activities. Well, that's almost true, I did watch a lot of TV. Bu tI would just get bored with it. Even through college I never enjoyed reading. Now, its not all bad, I loved how college made me actually read and I loved teh kowledge I gained from reading. But, I was also never a very fast reader. So, I always made reading less of a priority. But something drastically has changed this summer. I decided to take a few summer classes to get a jump on my M.Div. and this required a lot of reading. Actually it required about 2000 pages of reading, most of which was for only one class. And I ended up reading 1200 pages in about 2 weeks. I don't know if this a lot for most people but it an extraordinary amount for me. But rather than drain all the reading energy I have in my brain, it turned something on. I finished that class with a large desire to continue reading. I bought a few books, had more reading for class, and I just kep up the pace.
I have been rotting my brain with TV for so long I guess it took this 1200 page jolt for my consiousness to realize that I actually like reading more than TV. I tried to sit and watch some TV, ya know just veggin out in front of the tube, and it seemed so shallow. And I was watchign news stories and looking ofr content. There just isn't much. So I will opitmistically begin my semester at seminary(which requires a lot of reading) and hope to continue reading for enjoyment. This may not happen, but at least I hope I will keep up my reading apetite until semster break anf then I can hopefully read a few books.
