“ For years I would read during breakfast, the coffee stirring my pleasure in the prose. You can’t surf during breakfast. Well, maybe you can. Now I don’t have coffee and I don’t eat breakfast. I get up and check my e-mail, blog comments and Twitter.”
Article found via YMFY: Roger Ebert, on Frisson
(via lanipauli)
I used to read at breakfast as well; in fact, I used to read at every meal, a habit picked up as a child from my grandmother, to my mother’s disdain. Just sitting there eating food feels like a total waste of time to an irrevocable multitasker.
That said, I now stream “The Daily Show”, or, if that’s not available, BBC World News. I used to read Time or Newsweek in the mornings, then whatever fiction I was reading at lunch and dinner, if I didn’t have school assignments. Yes, this was back in my school days, all the way through grad school, when I still had time to read. That was also when I had a book-a-week habit, not counting schoolwork. Now, it’s a miracle if I can get through a book every month or two, as I’m limited to reading on sunny weekend days or the occasional lunch break at work, when I don’t have a meeting or so much work that I end up ordering in.
Time to read, more than anything, is why I miss academia so much.
Anyone else mourning their access to the (non-surfable) written word?
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