Mother's Day/Minnesota Day
2003-05-11 @ 9:05 p.m.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the world! Argh, I logged on to do my Biology assignment, then I discovered everyone updated their diaries, so I just had to go and read all of them! Thank goodness Yi Bin messaged me about the files, or I'd be so dead tomorrow. Come to think of it, I probably wouldn't get scolded very much! Anyway, I think I will go and watch a movie on Vesak Day, probably all by lonely myself.

I think Italo Calvino has a very interesting writing style. It's prose, but it's very poetic. I'm reading Invisible Cities, because I happened to stumble across it at the library yesterday. I don't really know why I read what I read. Sometimes, I can start on a book, but then get tired of it, like that Michael Palmer collection a few weeks back. It's very hard for a book to interest me. It either has to be by an author I totally respect, like Tolkien, or it has a blurb that just grabs my attention. Sadly, blurbs usually disappoint. I don't really like novels because I find the pace of story-telling too slow for me. There are notable exceptions of course, but not enough for me to become an avid reader of novels, which seems to be mostly what can be found in the school library. Maybe my reading tastes are just too eclectic? I guess I'll always be one of those people who read all sorts of weird stuff, aside from the more traditional and established writers.

I started reading this book on teaching yourself Latin. I'm daunted by the complexity of it. How am I supposed to tell when a vowel is long or short? Apparently, not knowing the distinction was considered vulgar back when they still spoke Latin. I've also given up on the Quenya course which I downloaded. I've been toying with the idea of regularising everything in it so it's more printer-friendly, then perhaps mailing it back to the author. However, I've decided that it's just too much trouble for these few weeks at least. I need to clear my five library books first.