Nightdreamer

June 3, 2008

…is taking a few days of exile from the blogging community. He’ll be back in a couple of days. Maybe Thursday. He just feel like there’s something that needs his immediate attention, and loath as he is to do this, writing blogs has to be shoved aside for now.

So before he takes the break, he’d like to show you an IM conversation that’s got him quite entertained. 

rockerliteratechick: bzuh. im totally going to regret not studying during the summer.
nightdreamer: hehe
nightdreamer: it happens to me all the time, when i was still in college
rockerliteratechick: i never really studied in college.
nightdreamer: you mean this is no longer for college?
nightdreamer: oh wait, i forgot. you’ve graduated.
rockerliteratechick: um. dude im in grad school.
rockerliteratechick: lolz
nightdreamer: i’ll probably do even worse in grad school
nightdreamer: and then i’ll just say "I’M BUSY WITH WORK EH!!111"
rockerliteratechick: you seem to read a lot though. way more than me.
rockerliteratechick: :) )
nightdreamer: work like playing ps2 till morning
rockerliteratechick: i know right
nightdreamer: oh but my reading speed has been way slow the past weeks
rockerliteratechick: ugh same.
nightdreamer: a book that normally takes me 2 days to finish, has taken me 2 weeks, and i’m still at the first 100 of the 400 pages.
rockerliteratechick: these days i find myself daydreaming after i read three sentences.
rockerliteratechick: i wonder if it’s like an age thing.
nightdreamer: ah, that’s where we differ. these days i find myself doing distracting deeds after one chapter
nightdreamer: like twittering
nightdreamer: annoying people at twitter and ym
nightdreamer: sleeping
nightdreamer: or picking my nose
rockerliteratechick: hahaha
nightdreamer: and i have way too many unread books
rockerliteratechick: i conclude that it must be an age thing
rockerliteratechick: *sigh*
nightdreamer: it must be.
nightdreamer: *sigh*
rockerliteratechick: i’m nervous.
nightdreamer: why?
nightdreamer: about school?
rockerliteratechick: yeah.
rockerliteratechick: lol
rockerliteratechick: let me tell you a secret.
nightdreamer: well i hope everything goes fine for you
nightdreamer: okay, i’m all eyes.
rockerliteratechick: i’m always afraid that i’m not smart enough for this.
nightdreamer: heh. you?
nightdreamer: you’re among the smarter woman i’ve read
rockerliteratechick: yeah. seriously.
rockerliteratechick: aw come on, really?
nightdreamer: but yeah, only smart people worry that they’re not smart enough
nightdreamer: dumb people certainly never think about that.
rockerliteratechick: lolz good point.
rockerliteratechick: but i dunno.. this isnt a false modesty thing. i honestly do worry that im not smart enough :\
rockerliteratechick: it really bugs my boyfriend every time i bitch about it :) )
nightdreamer: well, i dunno about how much you bitch about it
nightdreamer: but i think it’s normal
nightdreamer: this crisis of faith
rockerliteratechick: yeah
nightdreamer: you’ll do fine, i believe so.
rockerliteratechick: thanks :)
rockerliteratechick: and thanks for listening hehe
nightdreamer: anytime
nightdreamer: now let’s go annoy some twats in twitter
nightdreamer: and update their unfollow list ^_^
rockerliteratechick: hahahaha!


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“nightdreamer: a book that normally takes me 2 days to finish, has taken me 2 weeks, and i’m still at the first 100 of the 400 pages.
rockerliteratechick: these days i find myself daydreaming after i read three sentences.
rockerliteratechick: i wonder if it’s like an age thing.”

>>> I think it’s because as we grow older, we now know how to appreciate books more by digesting their contents slowly. I remember, when I was a kid, I’d just flipped through pages, sacrilegiously skimmed through descriptive paragraphs that the author painstakingly put together, and just picked out the dialogues to hurry towards the end of the story.

Now we like the journey more than the destination… I think.

I guess that’s how one should think about it if one wants to maintain that we are aging gracefully.

So, I’m sticking to this story… despite the small tug in my conscience that, in truth, I just end up using some books as an alternative to sleeping pills. It’s an age thing, alright.

Posted by van at June 3, 2008, 8:23 pm

Hmmmm, I have to disagree with the slow book reading equates to ageing. (well whaddya expect eh? hahahaha)

I can still read books that only take me one to two days, but it depends on the topic at hand. Books that are not yet finished by a weeks time only means that I’m not that interested in it. So there!

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Hahahahaha

Posted by virus at June 4, 2008, 3:21 pm

I don’t have any direct response to what the two of you said, because after all we’re talking about our own habits, and what applies to you may not apply to me.

Though, yes, maybe van is right in saying that I’m letting the contents sink in slowly.

But when I read fast, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I like the book. Sometimes, I intentionally read the book fast because I just want to get rid of it while knowing full well why I hate it. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown is the perfect example.

Although this book I’m now reading, which is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, is taking me too long to finish, I like it immensely. So why am I taking so long? “Busy or getting preoccupied with other things” is half the reason. The other half, is that it’s a very terrifying book about two killers who murdered the most undeserving family, just because they wanted to vent their frustrations. Read this book, and you can eflect on whether or not the Columbine Massacre and Virginia Tech Massacre happened for similar reasons.

What makes In Cold Blood most disturbing, is that it’s not a fiction, but a true story.

Then again, it may be signs of aging that I’m delighting in reading heavy stuff.

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