Happy New Year's Eve

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Here's to a brighter, more productive, and happy new year for 2012

Swallowed up by Books

Have you ever gotten so into a book that you can't do anything but read? Sometimes I'm so engrossed that all of my free time is taken up by that book. When I'm away, I keep thinking about it and wish that I was turning pages instead of whatever else I was doing. Everything else is put to the side, and I have to force myself to do anything but read.

The Song of Ice and Fire books by George R. R. Martin are like that. Ever since a coworker talked them up to me and got me to start reading them, I've been hooked. It's like they're taking over all of my free time, but I'm not complaining. At least, not too much.

"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was ahole into another world."

-A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin