we'll see how far self-discipline goes

It's a yucky overcast day, which makes me want to curl up and read. Which I plan to do, just as soon as I clean up my apartment. Which can happen as soon as I find my self-discipline, which should be lying around here somewhere buried beneath all the piles of stuff. *sigh*

I have about 300 pages left in Les Trois Mousquetaires, and I feel like I'm kind of hitting a wall. Dumas, I love you, but dude, you needed an editor. I'm more than 600 pages in, so I'm not going to give up now, but I just hope the seige of La Rochelle goes quickly, because while I enjoying swashbuckling and heaving bosoms, I do not care to read about military campaigns. Maybe I'll just try to finish the damn book today, and forget about my aparment.

On the plus side, I unexpectedly stumbled across an hour of Erasure on VH1 Classics yesterday. Awesome. "A Little Respect" is my favorite song. EVER.

( LJ interests meme )

I don't think I will ever get it

Ok, I have been reading Les Trois Mousquetaires, and I just happened upon this creepy, timely, and sad quote:

"Il y aura en tout temps at dans tous les pays, surtout si ces pays sont divisés de religion, des fanatiques qui ne demanderont pas mieux que de se faire martyrs."

"In every time and in every land, especially if the land is divided by religion, there will be fanatics, who will ask for nothing more than to make themselves martyrs."

Duuuuuuude. I got a shiver. This book was written in the 1800s, and it's set in the 1600s. (Cardinal Richelieu says the line, in chapter 44, just fyi.)

That just makes me sad.