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[serene]

I love Project Gutenberg. (Right now, I'm reading Innocents Abroad.)

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That's a fun one!

[ottercat.livejournal.com]

I have fond memories of that story....

Re: That's a fun one!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of those things I've always meant to read, because I knew I would like it.

[stitchinthyme.livejournal.com]

Haven't read it, but I agree with you about Gutenberg. I like to download stuff from there onto my e-book...nice and portable.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Work is so dull today, and I was dying to read a book, but it looks bad to be reading an *actual* book, so this is perfect.

[stitchinthyme.livejournal.com]

I used to do that, too. :-) (Now I'm too busy trying to soak up all there is to learn around here...)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I have to say that it's always been my dream to have a job that pays me to read and websurf, so I really need to not complain about it.

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[stitchinthyme.livejournal.com]

Be careful what you wish for. I once had this kind of job -- well, without the websurfing, because the company (whose name starts with a "P" and ends with "rudential") was so anal that they basically disallowed internet access unless you had special permission -- which I got, but they never did manage to get me set up properly. Anyway, I had literally no work to do, so I'd bring in books and read at my desk and try not to fall asleep. I lasted 4 months...I just really, really hated it. It felt like all my skills were slowly leaking out of my brain the longer I stayed there.

Re: That's a fun noe!

[ottercat.livejournal.com]

I like the conversation they have in the balloon about how they can tell when they've entered a different state (of the union) ;-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm lucky that there's occasional crazybusy to keep me from going nuts, but I may just be the laziest slug on the planet, 'cause I really groove on being paid to read and write and surf. Long live idleness!

:-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm only on Chapter 6 so far. I love the irony of his saying "The community is eminently Portuguese--that is to say, it is slow, poor,
shiftless, sleepy, and lazy," and then moving on to talk about their manual, agrarian economy -- "They plow with a board slightly shod with iron; their trifling little harrows are drawn by men and women," etc.