how is it march? the insanely quick passage of time since the new year is making me a little anxious about this list. and while nothing has been legitimately crossed off since my last post, i've taken the first steps on some more goals and wanted to pound out this week's update during my lunch.
i started a book (#7) recommended and gifted to me by my good friend kristen - the life of pi - and i'm already diggin' it. in the first fifty pages yann martel (the author) has managed to challenge, and perhaps even alter, a strongly held opinion of mine: namely, that keeping wild animals in zoos for human recreation is a bad, bad thing. i do love when that happens, though, because it proves the great thing about beliefs - you can change them! i actually have no idea at all where this tale goes, since i decided not to read up about the book at all before diving in, but if the first few chapters are any indication i'm pretty stoked about the journey.
i've also been gathering with some friends for a biweekly book club to tackle douglas hofstadter's beastly godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid (i'm counting this bad boy towards #7 as well, since kyle's been wanting to get through it for some time). someone could, and many probably do, devote an entire blog to this book alone, so i'll keep mention of it here to a minimum. but it's both a real challenge and a great joy to join the GEB community.
and... this one's big for me... i'll soon be playing (semi-) competitive volleyball again (#79)!!! hell, more than that - i've recruited five lucky friends to join the league with me and have been designated captain of our team. written words can't convey my level of excitement about this, but i'm sure some well-earned bruises will soon tell the story of how much i've missed this sport. i'll consider this one crossed off once we've played our first game later this month.
i started a book (#7) recommended and gifted to me by my good friend kristen - the life of pi - and i'm already diggin' it. in the first fifty pages yann martel (the author) has managed to challenge, and perhaps even alter, a strongly held opinion of mine: namely, that keeping wild animals in zoos for human recreation is a bad, bad thing. i do love when that happens, though, because it proves the great thing about beliefs - you can change them! i actually have no idea at all where this tale goes, since i decided not to read up about the book at all before diving in, but if the first few chapters are any indication i'm pretty stoked about the journey.
i've also been gathering with some friends for a biweekly book club to tackle douglas hofstadter's beastly godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid (i'm counting this bad boy towards #7 as well, since kyle's been wanting to get through it for some time). someone could, and many probably do, devote an entire blog to this book alone, so i'll keep mention of it here to a minimum. but it's both a real challenge and a great joy to join the GEB community.
and... this one's big for me... i'll soon be playing (semi-) competitive volleyball again (#79)!!! hell, more than that - i've recruited five lucky friends to join the league with me and have been designated captain of our team. written words can't convey my level of excitement about this, but i'm sure some well-earned bruises will soon tell the story of how much i've missed this sport. i'll consider this one crossed off once we've played our first game later this month.
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It's always scary when a book has its own ubiquitous acronym (GEB).
I took an entire class in college in Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. I'll leave it to you what that says about me, but I'll say this: I didn't understand any of it, and it still blew my mind.
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