It got busy this week! Lots going on at home, work, and otherwise as well. Life My daughter's school decided to close on Friday, along with several other schools in the area, with some being closed from Thursday. Not enough staff. The school had been on a mask mandate since the beginning of the pandemic, dropping it only for one week when the pandemic had appeared to have stabilized last year. And yet, they dropped the mandate completely at the beginning of this year, when cases were exponentially rising, only to bring it back again starting next week. I've gone from being very annoyed to angry to feeling fatigue in these first two weeks already. I won't lie - we all mask around here and try to avoid going where we don't have a need to be in, and still, we are not taking anything close to the extreme precaution we all took at the beginning of the pandemic. I cannot and don't want to keep my kids home - I have at least that much faith in the schools' precautions
I had been trying to decide about doing the readathon for a while, and was more inclined towards not doing it. Last time I did a readathon, I went into a major reading slump, and coming from another longer slump now, that's the last thing I wanted to risk. But then I realized that the slump happened because I wasn't doing the readathon right. I was trying to up my counts, just to see how much I can read in a day. Because of that, I wasn't enjoying my reading - and that really did me in. I think I have learned from that experience, so I'll just go with my whims on the d-day. No pressure, just pleasure! (Ha!)
Are you doing the readathon too?
Somehow I don't know how I will post regular updates on my blog - it's kind of hard checking for readathon updates every hour, so I may be posting only sporadically. I'll probably need the break. Also, I don't think I will sacrifice my sleep, because after 5 days of waking up early to go to work, it will take more than a readathon to make me want to skip sleep during the weekend too. (I so don't fancy sleeping my whole Sunday and then sitting up like a zombie on Sunday night.)
As for my reading choices, I'm not going to plan my pile - I'll just pick what suits my mind. I have two chunksters (The Passage and Cooking for Geeks) that I am reading right now, so I'll be alternating them with some "smaller" books (Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch, Room, etc).
Comments
Good luck and enjoy!
My advice - do a bit of reading, a bit of cheering, a couple of mini-challenges and have a great time!
Oh, and I don't stay up all night either. With the time zones the way they are I would be an absolute zombie when it was time for me to go back to work on Monday!
Marg, I have a feeling that I will end up cheering, LOL! If I do, at least I know what I will be doing during the next readathon. :)
Aleksandra, that's my plan too! Mostly I want to have fun!
Christine, well, good luck to you! Just make sure you take it easy because I didn't take it easy during my first readathon and I suffered for it.
Kathy, my thoughts are with you, Kathy. I hope you have a nice weekend.
Helen, so glad to have you in too! Yay for buddies!
Brenna, I missed a lot of blog events because of my schedule - that can suck, but I hope you can join in next year!
Juju, really? You're too funny!
Lisa, I really berated myself for reading to see how many pages I can make - at that point I was actually intensely fascinated with the fast-readers and wanted to see how much I could read too. What a sorry decision, but at least it was a valuable lesson, and I won't be curious about that anymore.
Roseann
One of these times I have to try a read-a-thon. To me, it seems like I am always doing a personal one;)
Molly, I definitely loved your approach to the readathon of dedicating it to nanowrimo!
Marieke, distractions still found me. :(
Gwen, you should do a readathon, even if you could read only for an hour! It's all in the community feel. :)
Katy, aww, I hope you can join in next time!