So last time I was asking for the writing of a new chapter. Well little did I know I'd be not only wanting one but reading one! Yeah for those of you who know me, I'm not that big of a reader...okay well I haven't read a book since Christopher Robin was the star of the show. But I went to Chicago this weekend and I had some long lay overs and flights ahead of me in the following days. So I figured I'd try to do something to keep my mind occupied. Lately I've been doing a lot of things to keep my mind occupied but a book...never! I couldn't believe it but as I trolled through the bookstore at Love Field looking for something to wet my whistle, I didn't find any magazines that did it for me. The crosswords weren't moving me at the time. It was actually a book! So I did it, I bought A Post American World. I'm not a terrorist or anything like that now, trust me. I may be that bad word New Gingrich loves "liberal" but I'm by no means, not a patriotic person. I thought the premise of the book was quite interesting. I saw the author talk about the book on The Daily Show with John Stewart, and it sounded interesting. It is less a book about the fall of the United States and more about the rise of the rest of the world. For decades we've been preaching democracy and free trade and the like to the entire world...the author thinks it finally set in. You know like when you tell your teenager that school is important and then they don't do their homework but then in 10 years they're flipping burgers...well the rest of the world just got tired of flipping burgers. Now I'm only 80 some odd pages in but I'm actually excited to finish this book. I will keep the masses updated and...give (look of pain on my face) a book report or something later.
Oh yeah and I learned this song in the bleachers at Wrigley and you didn't HAHA!
Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go, Hey Chicago what do ya say? Cubs are gonna win today!
2 comments:
Ha Ha Ha...this is on ESPN MLB today.
Report: Alou says he would have caught Bartman ball
Ha Ha Ha... Go Marlins
This is interesting, because I took a class about the rise of super-power economies. Such as China, and even India. Both are energy whores, which are in a race to scarf up as much energy as possible and as fast as they can! My professor preached about their yearn for westernized culture. East China looks like Las Vegas on hemorrhoids, ha, and their west farming lands are paying for it! Their beautiful farms and rivers have become toxic waste lands. They almost didn't even have the Olympics in Beijing because the smog from pollution was absolutely horrendous! Anyways, I just went off into a tangent lol, but was the book talking about that? Or something completely different? I agree with you on the reading, I'd rather listen to books on tape if I had my way, haha, but I also enjoy the imaginary factor it gives me while flipping through the pages
: ) thanks again, for your thoughts...
Katy
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