I GOT�ECLIPSE! AND I FINISHED IT!
Ok, ok, I will shut up now. I am obsessed, I'm sad to say. Funny story about that.... I was in English class and we were�reading�Romeo and Juliet (which I have already read. Twice.) Having acquired Eclipse only the day before, I sat with my copy of R+J on my lap with Eclipse inside it. And I read. Non-stop. The entire class. I think my teacher noticed (I wasn't really concerned about being caught. I just wanted to read.) but didn't say anything. Maybe she thought I was thoroughly entranced by Shakespeare. Don't get me wrong, I think Shakespeare is a genius, but I had other things on my mind (I was at the part where, if you have read it, Jasper is explaining his history... interesting stuff, that�). So I was there, reading, when I hear my teacher calling, "All right, who wants to be Romeo? Ok, you, Lesley. And who wants to be Juliet? How about.... WAIT." And I look up to see her staring at me and Charlotte, who's next to me doing the exact same thing as I am. "Look at those badasses!" my teacher said. "The quiet ones are always the rebels!" Char and I DIED laughing. We knew she wasn't really mad at us (a little frustrated maybe, but not mad. I mean, what kind of english teacher would be mad at students who are reading?). Although, she DID swear to us that next class we would have to do pretty well all the parts and NOT do some closet, under-the-desk reading. And we did. We suffered in silence and did as we were told. However, I consider this sufficient penance and will resume reading under the desk next class.
I have discovered something that is slightly ridiculous, but nonetheless helpful in many ways. When I read, I am usually completely and utterly absorbed by whichever book I am reading. Even when I stop, the book is usually on my mind (which makes it very difficult to have a coherent conversation with me). So, naturally, everyone assumes that when I read, I am transported spiritually to the book. Which is true. But I have a truly uncanny knack of managing to snap out of my literature-induced stupor in time to hear important information. For example, I will be reading, and suddenly I won't be at Hogwarts, in Middle Earth, on the HMS Dolphin, or in Tira or Bayern. Or even in Forks. I will resurface in time to hear my name in whatever conversation being carried on in my vicinity. Sometimes it's not my name. Other times it is information that I parents would have rather not told me. Other times it is family secrets or people's opinions or the news. I must have some "strange thing" receptor somewhere in my head, because otherwise.... Well. And when I do snap out of it, I don't jump or stretch of yawn. I continue pretending to read, because people will disclose so much more if they think they aren't being eavesdropped on. Which is, I am ashamed to say, what it boils down to.
Don't blame me. I don't ask to hear these things, and I am too curious to draw attention to myself so that they stop in time. Too bad for them.
I'll be back later. I need an opinion or two on an english project...
~Annabel
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