The Plan

Here's the deal: this summer, I'm going to try to read a book every day. This will probably fall apart, say, tomorrow, but until then I plan to report to you on my progress.

These are my goals:

1. Become a super-reader. I'm in training to be an academic, so as busy as my life is right now, it's going to get busier. I need to find time for reading in the margins of the day. Some of my professors receive a gross amount of books in the mail each week and polish them off during their lunch breaks. This I admire.
2. Become a super-writer. Writing has always been one of my weak spots--what better way to learn how to write than to condense book-length arguments into a couple of pithy paragraphs?
3. Vary my cultural consumption. During the school year, I read and write for about 12 hours a day, come home, and fall asleep in front of the tv. I'm fine with this. But we're entering rerun season again, and I am worried that tv's great serial flowering is coming to a close.
   

I have a few other reasons which I'm having trouble articulating at the moment, so I'll save those for a different post.

. . . and we're off!