– Great aunt Betty much better; will recover and will hopefully live a lot longer despite what she’s been through with an ischemic small intestine.
– Not going to visit parents and Holocaust museum in Chicago due to unplanned stomach flu and planned four-hour long MCAT practice test on Saturday.
– Must find some way to spend $100 in gift certificates to Savers. Likely to possess thirty more pounds of clothing by the time all is spent.
– Went to church on Christmas and took communion despite utter inconsistency with beliefs; took comfort in thought of most others there likely not believing in spirits, either. Still, nice people.
– Why do I bother reading the stupid goddamn newspaper, anyways? I read the entire Strib this morning and now I can hardly remember a single article from it. What was the last really profound thing I read in a paper, anyways? Not only that, but I’ve been told that newspapers are written on a fifth-grade reading level, and that the articles are written in an inverted-pyramid fashion, with as much of the important stuff as possible as early in the article as possible. And I’ve heard that the best way to improve one’s reading skills is not to increase the volume but rather the difficulty of the texts. And I’m not planning on writing that kind fact-after-fact prose in my future, anyways. So the news is forgettable, it doesn’t help me grow all that much, it doesn’t contribute to my writing skills, and it stresses me out, anyways. I should subtract most of the time I spend staying current on the news and devote it to reading profound things like “House of God” and “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.”
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