Reviewing,blogging,DSL, have what in common?

I'm beginning to believe that anyone who can create a blog should automatically be given college credits. Exactly what degree those credits should be related to I leave as a point of subjective discussion. I find it amazing to the point of stupidity how ten and twelve year olds can dominate the world of MySpace.com (and nooooooooo............I..........can't link that domain so it practically shines in startling, dazzling blue) when just adding a post for a 45 year old college graduate is enough to make me jump to my existing CV, edit it and add one of my pertinent skills as tyro venerated blogger given that I'm obtuse enough to see myself in such a vaporous shade of murky light! Blogging is dodgy enough. MySpace scares the crap out of me!

So, since I've been avoiding blogging, well, not true, essentially, I've been living an existence of annoyance. I've been annoyed by Verizon. Please in the future DON'T do maintenance work on my line. It was working perfectly until you decided to maintain it. Since then I've had the good fortune to be on the phone with tech support most days attempting to get it back to its un-maintained functional state. My boss was annoying me, then doesn't everyone's? We're all going on a bonus system. I don't know what the base line is (I guess that's not important information.) I don't know what the percentage is (I guess that's not important either, 1%, 10%...ehh, it's only money!) ~Shrug shoulders here -- insert goofy smile and hiccup~ All I know for sure is I'll be contributing the most since I'm the highest producer per hours worked BUT regardless I'll be collecting the least also because of the ratio of hours worked....go figure? There are days I'd rather talk to a tree....or perhaps in this case, the telephone pole where the maintenance work was done! Then there's the husband, but do I really want to go there? I'd like to pretend he's Bono but he doesn't have the spirit or Sean Bean...(new Sharpe episode, new Sharpe book....got Bean on the brain...not a bad thing ladies...I'd VOG but it doesn't come out?? So, insert VOG and raised eyebrows and snarky smirk!)...but he's not sexy enough so I just won't bother.

It is my blog so I can madly and infuriately switch subjects if I want to. I swear I hate reviewing books because I can't read what I want to read, on the other hand, I swear I love reviewing books because I end up reading books I'd never have read. It does make me sympathize on one level (the other level, the deadline one, the do it and shut-up, he gets no sympathy) with Christofer though. Lord, having to push yourself to read something that just isn't doing it for you and then of course being fair with your opinions. If all I did was review I know....quickly ..... I'd come to hate reading. Which is how our children must feel? Who wants to be told constantly what to read and worse have to pick it apart and analyze it? It's torture. Lucky for him he's finished his assigned reading and is happily running throught the last of his recent buying spree:
Down the Rabbit Hole -- Peter Abrahams
Rule of the Bone -- Russell Banks
The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
All three books have brought him back to the brink of the excitement of the written word. It was also staggering to see how quickly he reads when he's reading for pleasure.
Reviewing..ahh, well, last quarter I had brilliant books:
Straight into Darkness -- Faye Kellerman
Scroll of Seduction -- ??? (Ask the Taminator, I sent it to her!)
Chiefs -- Stuart Woods
This quarter is a mixed bag. On the bright side, I managed to fit in The Book of the Dead (brilliant!!!!!!!) and Reliquary by Preston and Childs. And if anyone, namely T, has to ask, no I haven't read Relic either. I don't know how I missed them and I am reading them backwards but at this point in the cycle who cares...it's Pendergrast! I'm also looking forward to Jennifer Egan's The Keep.

Thanks to the blocmascot who had to tell me I had comments backed up waiting to approve....why...beats me....first post...didn't have too....second, shrug those shoulders again...third is anyone's guess....it's the mystery of My Blog?