Does anyone out there except me really, really, really enjoy pure silence?

I love silence. It is one of the many reasons I live alone. I can't read or write without silence. Little background noises don't bother me as much anymore, but any kind of human noise, talking or moving about and I am hopelessly distracted. I hate going to restaurants when I am by myself and find that they are playing music of any kind, because I just want to sit there with my book or my journal and relax.

And I write with music on to drown out KFKD. Funny how different people are.

I love silence and need it, but sometimes it is too much. Replace "silence" with "sound" and that sentence is also true.

Also, hi. I've been offline since last week while the last days of school went screeching madly to a close.

Done now. Writing. It's quiet in my house tonight, and I love it.

Kristiiiiiin! Hi!

I'm one of those people who likes to have music on all the time, especially when relaxing. Silence creeps me out sometimes, though I do appreciate it at times. It's fascinating, especially when you're the only thing breaking it.

Erika! I was reading an old Elle (not that old -- a couple of months old) from a stash a friend gave me and I saw a little blurb of a book I thought you'd find interesting: Blue Blood by Edward Conlon. It's a history of the NYPD told by a cop who comes from a cop family. It was published by Riverhead Books.

(BTW, the Elle is from April of this year and has Mischa Barton on the cover -- did everyone EXCEPT me remember that she played Jessie's girlfriend Katie on Once and Again? )

Cool...although I'm thinking I might have to change my tag to "Cop Groupie" if I keep cultivating this reputation.

The New Yorker eviscerates Eats Shoots and Leaves and talks about the writer's voice.

(edited because I can spell)

Man, I'm in the middle of that book right now, and I'm loving it! I want to marry it. I'm curious to see what has the New Yorker so up in arms.

The article made my eyes glaze over -- I'm not sure it ever got past the raftload of punctuation errors they found in the book.

Was the article supposed to make me recoil in horror from the book? As in "Oh, dear god! She misuses commas! Hypocrite! HYPOCRITE!"

Because I'm thinking that even Alton Brown fucks up a recipe once in a while.

And the second half of the article, about "voice," was pointless. If it was meant to be an oblique jab at the author of the book, it didn't work. Not once in the part about voice does the article's author even mention Eats, Shoots & Leaves. If that was deliberate, it didn't work. If it wasn't deliberate, it was sloppy and unnecessary.