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February 06* 2005, 1:08 am
it is 1am and i just finished doing laundry. i am not even going to bother putting it away tonight. i am pooped. i have been re-reading the Great Gatsby recently. the last time i read it i was in 11th grade. i remember, with full clarity, how i felt reading it for the first time. and this time, almost 10 years later i still had some of the same imagery pop into my head based totally on memory. like i always imagined jordan baker as as pink cleopatra-like statue as she still appeared that way this time. a glaring difference though is how i felt about things in the book this time. in high school i thought affairs and bootlegging and murder were exciting and fun. things like that weren't usually in the books i had to read for class. now i was so distraught over the terrible way people treated each other in the book. it made me really sad. especially the funeral that no one went to. i wonder if i have become more of a wimp since high school or if this is all just a part of growing up. like now i understand why you should be nicer and why having people care when you die is a great thing. who knows. now i'm reading "the good people of new york" and i like it so far. it seems to be about nice people living sweet lives and treating others well. it is refreshing. it's a nice pick-me-up from real life. time to hit the hay. |