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skreidle ([personal profile] skreidle) wrote2004-07-09 02:28 pm
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Non-job, Non-readers, non-Junk, & motorcyclists

Well, that's a nice surprise--in addition to the two or three emails I've gotten from VAemploy.com reminding me to file weekly, I just got a phone call from a woman making sure I'd gotten my PIN, as I hadn't filed yet, and informing me that they'd received my separation info from RDR and that I was eligible for two weeks already.

I also replied to the email from the Telos/Xacta woman before going to sleep last night--expressing a tentative interest in a "physical security at the Pentagon" position. Still not in my field, but if it's all I can get at the moment..


In really sad news from [livejournal.com profile] reabhecc, Half of US shuns literature.


I realized that my email program's Junk folder had gotten mis-sorted, resulting in me missing several pieces of non-Junk, which I summarily saved.


I have a riding club! I sent in an application to join the Southern Cruisers Riding Club, Fairfax chapter last week sometime, and got a reply today. Checking the site and forum, it seems like a good, friendly bunch of people. :)
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[identity profile] xanthamarioff.livejournal.com 2004-07-09 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
There are actually people who don't read books? Not even one, in a whole year? How do they manage to do it? I can't imagine... It's -very- rare for me to go more than a month without reading a book through. In a good month, I go through at least five or six. Then again, my own parents used to not read for fun, and even now they're only sporadic at it.

Still, the notion that over half the population just doesn't read... I don't want to believe it.

[identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com 2004-07-10 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I've been known to go a month or three without picking up a book, but I'm not proud of that fact and I do try to make more time for reading. (I agree with one of the article's points--online reading, mainly LJ, has taken precedence over a lot of my free time, to the detriment of words on paper.) However, after almost no reading at all in three months in Australia, I've read at least ten books in the last few months, including one in the last week.

A whole year, though? Can't even imagine.
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