Reading

I'm good at reading really fast. I'm not in the extreme super-league, I'm not sure if I'm a "fast-reader" by definition, but I get through books at an amazing speed. It's easy for me to remember what I read, too, and reading about stuff is a good way for me to learn.

When it comes to textbooks however, I have another skill, that's a bit paradoxical; I'm good at not reading the whole book. I never read a textbook from the first page to the last. Instead, I start by browsing through the book, starting with the last chapter. I notice headlines, image texts, and the general outlay. Then I check out the list of contents. After that I browse again, reading parts that stands out to me, getting hooked here and there, changing page when I lose interest. Sometimes there's parts I really need to know, and then I might underline a few things.

And then I'm done. That's it. After that, I add what I've read to what is said on lectures and seminars, cataloguing it in my mental library, and when the exam comes up, I usually pass without fuss. To me, this technique works, and it's something I'm good at.

Party!

It's Stockholm Pride this week, and even though we haven't got the money or the energy to do it all week, we went to a party yesterday. Or rather, mother-in-law arrived in the morning, and we took off in the car before lunch, and arrived in time for an interesting seminar on BDSM and the law, held by a professor at Stockholm University. There we hooked up with some friends, and were invited to a pre-party were we ate sushi and talked before going to the actually club.

I loved it. We spent some time alone too, just drinking the at a café and looking through a book store.

But today my fever was back and I have been exhausted all day. It was so worth it - and hopefully Mistress feels the same way, even though she was landed with little S all day more or less by her self. I'm not well yet, apparently. But sitting home alone every day doing nothing fun wont make me better either.

Things I'm good at.

I've decided to start writing a small thing every day, mentioning something I'm good at, in some way. There is way to much self-blame going on in my head, it needs counteracting.

So, for the first installment: I'm good at getting avocado out of the avocado peel, both in orderly cubes and in segments. I have this system, were I cut it in half, remove the seed, and then make cuts in the flesh of the avocado before hollowing it out with a spoon. I'm good at that.