I'm a nerd

So yesterday was rather eventful. Sherwin and I have been dating for an entire month now, so we went out for Coldstone ice cream and ate it at the falls, which was where we ended up on our first date, so I suppose that's rather appropriate. I had honestly lost track of the exact date, which made it extra sweet that he didn't want the day to pass by without us doing something special. (Sorry if this is too cheesy for some of my readers. I'll try not to ramble on too much about how amazing my boyfriend is.) Then as we were leaving the park, he gave me another surprise, not quite so welcome. He decided that I should learn how to drive a stick shift, and that he was going to teach me right there and then. Probably not the best location, since there were stoplights and a few other cars around, and I definitly killed the car in an intersection more times than I would like to admit. So we gave up on that and drove out to the country so I could practice on empty roads. I actually got the hang of it pretty quickly out there, where there were no other cars to freak me out. I think I may have even forgiven him for asking me to drive in town. We'll see.

Yesterday afternoon I hung out with Dianna. We ended up at B&N, where I further embraced my nerdiness by drooling over books that I would love to read but probably shouldn't spend money on right now. So that you can understand just how nerdy I was being, here are some titles I wrote down as a "wish list":

The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel

The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus - Joshua Kendall

Writers [on Writing]: Collected Essays from the New York Times

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

Poetry Collections:
-John Donne
-T.S. Eliot
-Emily Dickinson

As you can see, most of this list was compiled at a single shelf in the back of the store located by the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section. I would have also included a Pratchett, but, alas, his most recent installment, Making Money, is not yet available in paperback.

Not that I have time to read at the moment anyway, but graduation is less than two weeks away. And considering how many books I got read at my park job last year, I should be able to make substantial progress on whatever reading list I manage to put together for myself.

Oh yeah, I finally got my graduation party invitations in the mail today. That was a weird feeling. Lately I've been either ignoring or living in outright denial of the passing of time. But I can't do that anymore, can I? The future is coming, and I had best get myself ready for it. Soon I will have to become--horror!--an independant adult.

-Kim