I began reading Liar’s Poker this afternoon and am halfway through the book – it’s one I’ve been wanting to read for a while but was compelled to now that I picked up Lewis’ latest book, The Blind Side. I think I read too fast. I think I experience life too fast. I told Gomez as we walked around the bayou this afternoon that G has this uncanny ability to linger in bed in the morning and I get up and scale the mountain before I realize I’m breathing. <\/p>\n
A moment ago I was almost panting as I went through stacks of bank statements I hadn’t reconciled and paid bills and made lists and got my calendar together for next week. It’s like without a topper I operate on adrenaline that fuels some frenzy – only I’m not quite sure I know what the hurry is anymore – I just get on the hamster wheel and pant away for no good reason. <\/p>\n
Literally – most people think I am having sex when they call me cause I answer the phone half out of breath – they don’t know that I’m whirling on some natural speed that coarses through my blood and every move, even answering the phone, is done in mid breath. <\/p>\n
There are three books that I’ve begun on my bedside table – and yet today I bought a new one and read half of it.<\/p>\n
Rushing to the grave, I imagine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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