Alternatives to Books and Time
Books Left: 94
Current Book: Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
My book is lost for good. I haven’t heard anything from Delta and I doubt they care about a missing book. I hope someone found it and is enjoying it on their travels.
Never fear, I will be getting another copy soon. A gentleman friend has agreed to procure me a copy. He also agreed to pick out parts with me for the computer I want to build. (Future potential suitors take note! Books + computers = win.) My biggest problem: finding a case that doesn’t look either like a cardboard box that was painted black nor have enough light features to light up my entire room.
1. Wired magazine. I subscribe to two magazines, chosen partially for their content and partially because I was able to get them free through MyCokeRewards. (The other one is ReadyMade, which is awesome!) This time around, Wired has a great article about LOST. If you know me at all, you know that I love LOST and I’ve been watching it since halfway though Season 1. The best part of the article was a little sidebar including obscure clues most people missed, but I was excited that they didn’t mention the clue I picked up on way back, Jack’s KRZR. (Although to be fair, I didn’t quite get the meaning of the KRZR. I just knew something was “up” which perhaps, in LOST-land, is nothing special.)
2. Blogs! I’m continually updating my link lists on the left and my Google Reader. There’s so many amazing lit blogs out there! I can’t imagine linking them all. Indie Fixx had an interesting post about movies that have made an impact on your life. (Although the first part, before she actually came to the list of movies, bothered me because not everyone is married to someone rich so they can quit their day jobs.) There are many movies that I love, but I can’t think of many that have actually impacted my life. In fact, the only one I can think of right now is Julie and Julia, which inspired me to start a project and blog about it. Another might be Zoolander, if only because my friends and I quoted it incessantly through late high school/early college. There are also movies that I’ve found visually inspiring, including Amelie and Away We Go. Also, I want to make a triangle shawl. However, I can only knit squares and rectangles and I haven’t knitted one of those in quite a while. Perhaps I’ll sew a triangle shawl instead.
3. How to Be More Creative, More Often by Breanne Boland.
This is a cute little zine I bought on Etsy while shopping for supplies for a project. I loved the title, and it has some really good advice. My favorite section was the part about perfection and not worrying about it. When I create things, I often worry about perfecting every detail. The book says, “Perfection is for robots.”
That said, the zine isn’t perfect. Breanne’s handwriting is a bit difficult to read, and on a few of the pages have the bottom or the top of the content chopped off.
It really made me want to get this book. I’m always looking for more creative inspiration! After reading the zine, I kind of want to make a zine of my own! I have no idea what it would be about, though.
Speaking of zines, I got a great little one in a swap. It’s called 10 Pairs of Glasses and you can pick it up by clicking the title. It’s very well written and unlike the other zine there were no issues with the printing. It made me think about alternative markers for time. In the zine she measured her life by what glasses she had. I measure mine in other ways, like what job I have (that’s probably a common one) or what apartment I’m living in (also probably common). I also think about what online communities I’ve been a part of and how that’s changed over the years. What different ways do you use to measure time?
nice post. My time markers are fairly typical too, what degree I was working on, what boyfriend I had, who I was living with. I suppose after this degree those things won’t work as well, but maybe what job I have will. Oh good heavens. Or children. crazy.
You and Justin are going to have kids, RIGHT? I think Justin would make a great dad!
I agree that 10 Pairs of Glasses totally rocked!
I measure my time with life events. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college, first real job… which is where I’m at now.
You know, I never thought about that. I’m on my second real job now. That’s so weird!
1. *blush*
2. I once lost an iPod Shuffle and pair of expensive headphones on a Delta plane (from Amsterdam to DTW) and they never recovered them, so I can’t imagine it’s likely they’ll care about your book.
3. I tend to measure time by where I was living because I’ve lived somewhere different every year since I started college back in 2002 and the cycle of movement doesn’t look like it will let up anytime soon.
4. I am 100% in favor of posts like this in addition to your regular posts about the books.
I think my books are my time-markers. I can always tell where I was in life by what I purchased at the time. Right now, considering all the book on France and food, I’m in the midst of a not-so-secret desire to live in Paris and become a gourmand. Before this, I bought a lot of books on marine biology and surfing, which fulfilled my post-Costa Rica surfing adventure phase. Who knows what’s next!
The sprinklers turn on around midnight every night, and the gardeners always mow the grass around our apartment complex at about 8:30 in the morning every morning.
I know that it’s not exactly what you were referring to in terms of markers for time but it’s the first thing that came to mind.
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