When I go to the eye doctor, they'll dilate your eyes and then stick you in a nice dim room ... with stacks and stacks of reading material. um ... NO.

Happy Birthday, Erika!

and meara - soon you'll be able to vote for a Congressional representative who actually, you know, represents you!

I used to not be able to read on the bus at all. Lately I have found that if I sit in a sideways seat the nausea doesn't bother me nearly as much. I do have to look up from time to time and sometimes if I get engrossed in my book I forget and then I do still get sick.

What kills me is when I'm getting my hair done (which takes hours and hours) and I can't read because I can't keep my glasses on. Except that I've gotten to the point where I can actually nap in the chair while she's doing my hair.

Lately I have found that if I sit in a sideways seat the nausea doesn't bother me nearly as much.

This is weird, because I only get sick if I sit in a sideways seat! Or on one particular very curvy bus route. I do have to make sure I look up and out the front window every once and awhile, though. I can't imagine not doing something, because my bus commute ranges from 40 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes.

I am one of the only people who read on most of my buses, and other people tend to read the bible. It is kind of weird

The beach is magical! You don't need anything to do there. The ocean is enough of a reason.

However, you yank the body of water and I can barely sit still long enough to read. I need even more shit to be happening. Conversation, sporting event, something. I'd rather go inside and read out of the bright light, etc.

At the beach I'm usually in the water. Books don't work well there.

Hee, of course, living where I do probably figures into the equation. On our commute we drive past gorgeous snow-capped mountains, broad open canyons filled with color, through towering ponderosa pine forests, past sparkling lakes, along vast desertscapes with rock formations and dust devils. A bald eagle swept in front of our car during yesterday's commute.

Their parents don't read; no one on television reads. Television homes rarely have bookshelves.

And yet books are often populated by people who read, or have families who read, or have bookshelves. A CONSPIRACY!

and meara - soon you'll be able to vote for a Congressional representative who actually, you know, represents you!

AND not one but TWO senators! How exciting! And you know I will be urging them to take action on DC voting rights!

Yesterday I missed my train stop because I was reading. Usually I'm good about it, but somehow miscounted, and realized I was at Catholic/Brookland rather than Fort Totten. Oops.

AND not one but TWO senators! How exciting!

Heh. I have to say, as senators go, Cantwell and Murray are kinda dull. They usually vote the way I want them to, but if you could trade senators between states like baseball players I'd be agitating for Washington to throw in a legislator to be named later or two so we could swap them for cool senators like Obama and Webb.

Can I swap my senators for more liberal ones?