Need some time to…

Everything just gets really busy at once these days.

I read War and Peace not to long ago, it took ages, the whole summer in-fact. But you get a little bogged down in looking up the references (flipping to the back of the book and reading about who is who and what battle this is and how significant it was and who won and and and and….)

So I decided to read it again, only more slowly and with only looking for the translations, just letting the story flow. It’s so much better this way, you get to appreciate how good a story teller/writer Tolstoy was.

I just wish i had more time to read it…. And read newspapers…. It was one of my joys last semester was to get home at 12 on a Friday and read the newspapers drinking tea with a friend. Because of timetables this year we can’t do this. I miss it more then I thought. It was the rest at the end of the week, kinda like a meditation almost, just spending quality time with a friend (even if nothing is said) is something amazing.