Reading Time (was: M&D thoughts -- no spoiler)

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Tue May 13 07:50:42 CDT 1997


On Tue, 13 May 1997, Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:

> I agree with all of this--but how in the hell do you all find one or two
> hours a day to read?  By the time I get home from work, eat dinner, and
> spend a couple of hours with my woman it's time to go to sleep.  And I
> don't even have kids!  Must be those perfessers readin' on the job. :-)
> 
> 	Steve Maas (fuming because he's only at about page 150)

Don't feel bad, Steve.  I'm in much the same boat.  Get out of bed around
6:30AM, be at work by 8, get home around 5:30PM, dinner, pay some
attention to the wife so she not feel neglected, and next thing you know
it's so close to time to hit the hay that there's no sense trying to get
into the book.

I was the last of my "crew" to get hitched and I used to always deride
them about how their amount of reading decreased when they got married.
Well, mine has gone down also, though not as much as others, thankfully.

And then there are kids...those friends of mine who have kids don't read
*at all* anymore.  I just can't fathom doing that.

Joe





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