man, this whole spring forward thing…i mean, its cool and all that its light out now, i mean, pretty soon the sun will be setting around 9 or something. it doesn’t seem like too long ago that it was getting dark at 4 pm everyday. its sooo much nicer though cause it goes along with my more nocturnal clock, cause i do like to do things outside, its just that normally i can’t get myself going early enough to really enjoy a full day. but actually when i think more about this, it mostly takes eveyone else i’m going to do stuff with longer. i think proportionally the more peopel that you have to get motivated to go do something, the much longer it takes, but inherently, the more fun it can be. i mean, i know i have alot more fun going with like 6 or 7 friends to go play ultimate frisbee is more fun than running or swimming or biking, which most of the time is just going outside to do something outside. but at the same time, it takes like an extra hour or so to get to the point where you can line up everyone’s schedules and get everyone out there. which is allright sometimes, but damn, when its a beautiful day out, and i’ve been at school all day, i don’t want to sit around and wait for people, i want to get outside and do something NOW. which is why i like running so much. i mean, its great to be able to go outside and just do it at your own pace, think about whatever you want to, and rock out to some music while doing it. after all of the sitting around in school, i don’t want to come home and wait around some more before i go outside, i want to eat a snack and just get out there and do it dammit. but yeah, enough griping about that i think…

i picked up and read farenheit 451 a few days ago. it only took me a few hours to read, cause it is a novel for ray bradbury, considerign his short stories, but it still is only like 170 pages or something…but yeah, i knew that it was one of those classic books that they make you read in high school and stuff (which more than a few people commented to me)and i really enjoyed it. i mean, it’s one of those books that you realize why they assign it to high school reading. granted it probably would have sucked all the life out of it if i was forced to write a few papers about it or discuss it with a class or something. but what was kinda disturbing to me was when i was reading it, i mostly read it outside cause it was such a nice day outside, and basically this is how it went with everyone i knew who came up to me:

“hey, what’s up, what are you reading?”

“farenheit 451”

“are you reading it for a class?”

“no”

“then why are you reading it?”

and that’s what was distressing to me, the fact that most people that i know read only when they have to, and don’t really derive any pleasure from it. its not like i think that people who don’t read for pleasure are depriving themselves or stupid or antyhing, its just when they get to the point that they think that reading is worthless, hence the “then why are you reading it?”. i don’t know, i guess it does kinda bother me that i can’t relaly think of anyone off the top of my head that reads for pleasure, but its not that bad i guess. people get busy priorities get rearranged and whatnot. its just a shame i think…

but yah, i think i’m gonna do alittle homework here…cause if i don’t do it now, i’ll end up being dragged to the bars without it finished, i need some water too, swimming relaly sucks all the moisture out of you, instead of that sweaty drenched feeling you get after running, your skin feels relaly dry after swimming, its kinda funny to me