November 20, 2008
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Who’s Listening …
So I started reading Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope”. In the first three pages he vividly describes how it is that Senators and Representatives make impassioned speeches and engage in lively debate with … no one. It’s depressing. I really liked the movies about when Jimmy Stewart went to Washington and he made the great speech and everyone listened and things got done. I wonder if it ever happened that way.
I still haven’t finished the Philosophy and Bullshit book, but I accidentally left it at work. So I’ll be reading two books simultaneously. I can do it, I’m a big girl.
About that wine …
There’s a reason they put that kangaroo with the big feet on the label of that wine … because it kicks!
I had two glasses of wine last night, and it was about four hours before everything stopped spinning. I wasn’t able to have my oatmeal this morning because I was still a bit queasy. Lightweight much? Since I missed my oatmeal, I’m pretty sure the positive effects of having red wine were cancelled out by the negative effects of what I actually did have for breakfast. Nothing.
Comments (13)
I thought you were always into more than one book at a time. You big girl, you.
I’m the one who always wanted to read one book at a time…but now I’ve really branched out. LOL. I’m into three and four at a time now. Crazy. I guess that is what I do when I lose my inhibitions…come to think of it….I read with wild abandon many books at one time. 
Yeah, you shouldn’t start out with two. I have a good tolerance and I rarely drink two. Depending on what “two” means.
Politics is for cynics.
I read two books at once often. I read one light weight novel and a serious book usually. God Bless, Judi
You rock. I have two books WAITING to be read (does this count…?
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I’m a lightweight when it comes to wine, too. Though you wouldn’t know it by looking at me. I’m not at all ashamed of my sensitivity to alcohol. It means I avoid it most of the time and get the most bang for my buck when I do indulge/imbibe. My dad listened to the author read “The Audacity of Hope” the other day after a workout. I haven’t gotten his reactions on it, but I’m mostly thrilled that my family is adding audiobooks to their regular books and copious amounts of TV. I have one YA book going in the library hardbook and one on my CD player in the car.
Hello,
I understand completely about canceling out the good effects of one thing with another! I just had to laugh when I read the part about the wine with the big kangaroo feet…..I try and drink grape juice or pomegranate juice when I think to pay the outlandish prices at the grocery store for my reservatrol and antioxidants..
Forgive the spelling, I rely entirely too much on spell check, even though I have several dictionaries..I would love to read the book by Obama, but right now am reading too many other books…Anne Rice and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words..Yes, you can read more than one book at a time.. but it pays to put them in separate places in your house.. Reading for fun for me(Anne Rice) by the bed, and reading to learn by my chair..There is only so much multitasking I can do at one time…until it begins to blur together..
Love your blog! Rosemoss
I’m working on a couple o’ books as well…
neither is philosophy…
one is like a freakin’ textbook… :-/
Are you speaking of bigfoot wine? Rob loves that stuff. I think it tastes like paint thinner. It does have a kick either way! Glad you recovered!
Maybe kangaroos have such big feet so they can stay on them when they drink that wine? Come to think of it, it’s probably why their tails are so strong too! LOL Maybe if you have the wine with your evening meal, and only drink one, you can still keep your oatmeal down in the moring? It’s worth a shot anyway. <3 SuZ
The Audacity of Hope…..I plan to listen to that book on tape from the library. I always have at least 2 books on the burner. On for morning & one for evening and both of different genres that way they are different thoughts in my head.
I think the reality of what you commented on about Congress is so sad. We, meaning government, have come so far from presenting issues to the citizens, then the citizens sending their congressional leaders back to vote based on how the majority dictated. I’m sure this is due to a great many tiny details that have risen with the expansion of our country. We elect all our officials from their stance on issues, instead of placing them in this important place to vote on issues based on our voices on a vote-to-vote basis.
Government is definitely top-heavy now, in this regard.
Whoo, yay.
I remember that movie……..I loved that movie…………hugs to you……….