my picture is in the dictionary next to "easily amused"

[kjpepper]

So. Bath. Can get pretty tedious if you're stuck in it for half an hour with nothing to read. Yes, I'm a bathtub reader, always have been always will be. That said, and before all you bibliophiles die of shock and horror, I've only dropped 2 books in the water, ever. And not since I was 10.

Anyway. Nothing to read today, no legions of rubber duckies to command into epic naval battle (note to self - must fix that) so how did I pass my doctor mandated half hour in the tub? playing with the veins in my hands. As in raise em over your head - poof! they disappear! Drop em below your heart - pop! There they are again.

No kidding, this kept me occupied for a good 20 minutes. It's just as much fun as it was when i was 12. I'm amused that I still have a criscrossing of blue roughly in the shape of the New York Yankees logo on my right hand, which I suppose round here is like being branded with the sign of the devil, guess I'd better keep that hand elevated if I'm ever invited to a Sox game, lol.

Comments

[11th-letter.livejournal.com]

I read in the tub too...what else is there to do?
Incidentally...I read the first book in that series you lent Murphy yesterday. But he is still reading the second, so I won't get it for awhile.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

Heh. You missed my usual warning of have the second book primed and ready for immediate devouring after finishing the first one.

What did you think, incidentally?

[11th-letter.livejournal.com]

I got the warning, but I read so much faster than Murphy that the only remedy would have been to wait until he was finished with all 3 to start the first one. And I am too starved for reading material for that, as my books have been packed away for 2 years.
I liked it well enough...certainly well enough to keep reading it. The medievaloid sword and sorcery genre is not my favorite, but it was well written.
More personally, the subject of male submission is not my personal area of interest, though I liked very much how the distinction was made that 'service to a worthy lady' had been corrupted into submission to the undeserving.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

It gets clarified later on. It's not _exactly_ submission... or at least it's not supposed to be.

[11th-letter.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly...that was the part I found interesting; that service is not submission and only those who are unworthy of either would accept the latter and confuse it with the former.

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh gross. I woulda yelled for a book.

(But there's just something icky about veins to me. "Killing Me Softly" used to gross me out as a kid because it sounded like "Strumming my veins with his fingers", and it left a permanent icky mark. :) )

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

...those _aren't_ the lyrics?

(yes I'm kidding, but atm I can't remember the real lyrics.)

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I read in the tub, and have since I was little. Nowadays I prop a chair next to it so I can set the book there.

What I really do that's crazy sauce: DS in the tub! I've also done Game Boy.