Random Thoughts

Here is my collection of random ideas for tonight:

• I love bookstores. They smell so good. I particularly like used bookstores - especially ones like Pilgrim books - lots of fantastic stuff, fantastic prices, and they'll keep an eye out for the books you want, and phone you if they ever come in.
  
• I don't LOVE selling china. But I do like it. For retail, it's a pretty good job. Most of the customers are nice. The coworkers tend to be pleasant. I have lots of free time at work since most of our business is done in orders, so there's not a lot of work to be done in a 5+ hour shift.
  
• Slow work shifts mean I have time to memorize Scripture. I can't read a book, but I can tuck a printout of a passage into my pocket, pull it out, and memorize a couple of verses a shift. I'm currently working on Psalm 116. I think I've got the first 3 verses down.
  
• It's true that it gets harder to memorize as you get older. When I was a kid, I would have been able to memorize the same amount in half the time. Now, it takes me forever to learn six lines!
  
• I thought my tendency to procrastinate had gotten better - it hasn't. My last paper of the semester is due Monday morning around 11. I haven't started it yet. I'm working until 9 tomorrow night, and all day Sunday, then church Sunday night... I guess it'll be a couple of late nights writing.
  
• I'm not all that enamored with the topics of frontiers, borders, borderlands, and social boundaries. That's what I have to write a 12-15 page paper on in the next few days - how these concepts operate in a rather interesting novel that I DID like titled, "The Story of Blue Eye."
  
• Everyone should spend at least a bit of time listening to a good book on CD. May I reccomend the "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" trilogy? I just finished listening to the third one yesterday. A great story of the friendship of four girls - a coming of age story. Nothing hugely profound, but full of fun, friends, and happiness.
  
• My tendency to procrastinate is being exacerbated by this blog. I should be writing a paper, not listing a random collections of thoughts for the evening.