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Terms of the Duel

New-Year's resolutions have a pronounced and infamous tendency to fall by the wayside by, say, the 1st of February. Perhaps, however, that is because they are resolved upon, adhered to, and discarded, by solitary individuals. Perhaps what's needed is some good old-fashioned competitive spirit.

The participants:

  1. Ilya Gandelman - desk jockey from 9-5:30, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, writing, reading, watching tv/movies (very selective in this area!), eating Meredith's delicious food, playing with Gizmo, spending time with family and friends.
  2. Meredith Gandelman - also a desk jockey, from 9-6, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, reading, watching tv/movies, cooking/baking for Ilya (and others), snuggling/playing with Gizmo and spending time with family and friends.

The resolutions:

  1. To read more books
  2. To watch less television
  3. To spend less money (by reading library books, and by making our way through unread volumes gathering dust on the shelves)
  4. To spend more quality time together with a shared interest

Therefore, the challenge proposed: who can read the most books in a year? On one side the wife, on the other the husband: who'll get the most volumes under her or his belt before 2015?

The rules:

  1. Books will be chosen independently. Any genre or subject is eligible.
  2. No second thoughts once starting a book. An uncompleted book is not counted, except of course as time lost. We shall have to choose carefully; and if a book seems to be disappointing, best to soldier on through to the end!
  3. A 300-page minimum. However, books briefer than 300 pages may be combined with others to count as one entry in the Duel.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Game day got in the way!

Pages read today: 0 for Meredith (WHAT?!), 64 for Ilya

While we're not football watchers, we are animal lovers!  We've never had cable before to watch the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, so we were excited to get to finally see that this year.  Also, it was the first year of the Kitten Bowl on the Hallmark Channel (which we also now get).  So we watched both of those (well, I watched more than Ilya, which shows in his reading progress and my lack thereof).  Then I did a bunch of cooking for us for during the week and we watched Captain Phillips (excellent movie!), and by the time all that was said and done, the day was gone!  :(

 I'm still finding it difficult to motivate myself to read.  I did get a bunch more books from the library, but none of them are jumping out at me and Gathering Blue is just not holding my interest yet (certainly different than my experience with The Giver); and it remains true that all of the books I really want to read will not be available for me to borrow from the library for a long time.  *Cue sad Charlie Brown music*  Hopefully tomorrow Gathering Blue will somehow pull me in or maybe I will decide to set that one aside for now and start something different. 
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