
omg, i was doing the sunday morning usual. i checked emails, i drank some coffee. i felt the kitchen could use a-tidy, but instead i gathered up laundry. i took the dog out. i put away my shoes and collected clothes hangers from every corner of this damn house.
and then, for some reason, i picked up a book sticking out of the top of a box i have on the floor. the book is by john gregory brown and it's called "decorations in a ruined cemetery" and even though that box is specifically set aside for the cannonball read 2 that starts november 1st and even though i Knew It Was Wrong, i read 9 pages of it!
the lake pontchartrain causeway (in louisiana, which i have travelled a ba-jillion times) collapses two lines into the book, for pete's sake. it Sucked Me In.
and i regret it.
suffice saying, i don't have many regrets in my life, but the few i Do Have are biggies: estranging myself from my family, not using a condom with that piece-of-shit-asshole-motherfucker-douchebag-liar-mouth, not appreciating certain people before they were gone.
and i regret reading those 9 pages, and i wanted to come clean. i will be pushing that book back to the end of the cr2. or, following public outcry, dropping it altogether.


Wow...you know some people are already posting for it. Now I consider "that" cheating. Haha
ReplyDeleteAwwww gp, what a sweet honest soul you are! Tell you what, put the book somewhere in the middle of the pile and feel guilty no more.And anyways, I think the real purpose of Cannonball Read is to encourage everyone to read more...and that's what you wanted to do. Don't sweat it hon!
ReplyDeleteHell has an extra table setting tonight.
ReplyDeletei *was* feeling better about it.
ReplyDeleteuntil Cindy!
I forget it ever happened. I mean, YOU had to be all honest and stuff, and confess but...
ReplyDeleteWait, what were we talking about again? Oh, that's right, a book you're planning to read for CR2. Yep, sounds like a real candidate, can't wait for the review!
I'm having the HARDEST time trying not to read the books I've set aside too. No worries, doll. You came clean. Push the book to the midle of your pile and worry no more...
ReplyDeleteYou're doomed. DOOMED. And you've doomed the rest of us along with you.
ReplyDelete(P.S. I've also been trying desperately not to start any of them. It's hard!)
Maybe the sweet and innocent Americans will let you off the hook but I'm a hard-assed Canadian, bitch. Twenty lashes with a wet tongue! Then, a spanking.
ReplyDeleteUm, Admin? I think maybe you're setting the wrong tone here? Shouldn't that be twenty lashes and a tongue spank?
ReplyDeleteare you boys sure you wouldn't like to go some place private?
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