Lack of will power

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Date: 17 April 2007 19:50:25

My name is Farli and I am addicted to reading books. It is an hour since my last fix, but that is because I have been having dinner with my parents and I am not allowed to read at table, then I have been reading wiblogs.

In the 49 and a half hours* since I arrived, I have read 7 books...

...and it is all yay's fault.

After yay's mention of Chalet School books, I decided that I would re-read them again this summer, as a break from work. Sadly, I decided just to read one when I got here on Sunday and now look what has happened.

I can report several things:

1) There really are a shocking number of continuity errors and some plain ignorant geography.
2) 7 books in and no-one has been to the loo yet.
3) Either my shelving in the past has been less than accurate or Dad has been reading them again and misfiled them. I assumed that they would all be in the correct order and found myself reading Chalet Girls in Camp before Chalet School and Jo - obviously wrong as Camp mentions them having visited Oberammergau already.
4) I am beginning to understand that I was programmed as a child to do the university course I ended up doing. Most of the early books mention someone who is off to read maths at Royal Holloway.
5) The attitude to ecumenism is... interesting to say the least. I wonder if I could get an essay out of that? Then it would be work and I needn't feel guilty.

Right, I am off to er... do some Greek in between reading some more.

* I like precision