Screw It

I'm now declaring it is no longer nonfiction month. I'm bored, bored, bored with it already. Give me a hunky hero, a spunky heroine, and some hot monkey sex. That's what this girl needs to get through the night. Although, to be fair, I made it until almost 10:30 p.m. on the 20th day of the month reading nothing but nonfiction. I think I deserve some credit for that.

Along with my Laurie Notaro and sundry self-help books, I read one memoir, Augusten Burroughs' brilliant Running with Scissors. I thought I wanted to see the movie, but now I'm not sure if I do. There's no way it can possibly measure up.

I wrote the paragraphs above last night before diving into bed with a piece of very fluffy fiction. Called The Scot, The Witch, and The Wardrobe no less. Pure fluff. In the cold, hard light of morning (my living/dining area where I'm currently sitting has a northern exposure, so the light is always cold and hard), I asked myself if I felt guilty for abandoning my quest for a December of truth, a December of enlightenment, a December without romance. The short answer is no. I read for pleasure, for fun, for a giggle. The long answer is, naturally, more complicated. Yeah, sometimes I do read for information, and I know that my reading "diet" is not particularly well balanced most of the time, but I think I was being unrealistic with a whole month of nonfiction. Maybe I should just sprinkle in more NF books during the year.

I am not, however, adding more NF to my reading diet as part of a New Year's Resolution. The past 2 years, 2005 and 2006, my resolution was the same. I resolved to get up in the morning before the kid(s) had to leave for school. Consequently I'm up before 6 a.m. if T is going to school. Right now, he's on winter vacation, so I can roll out of bed later (7:15 today, almost 8 a.m. yesterday), but I'll be back to being up early in January until he graduates in June. After that, I'll probably only set the alarm for special occasions.

Anyway, that was the sole resolution I made for the past 2 years, and I kept it. Which is pretty fucking impressive, and I'm pretty fucking impressed with myself. Yay me. So this year, I feel like it's time to make a new resolution. I've given it some thought, and decided that my resolution for 2007 is to NOT eat while I'm sitting at the computer anymore. It's a bad habit for my weight loss efforts, and it's hell on keyboards. I will still allow myself to have coffee and water during the working part of my day while I'm sitting here, but when I'm actually eating, I resolve to be out of this chair and clocked out of the work time clock.

Wish me luck. I'm going to need it.