Monday pollitude

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1435751]

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I've read three or four books. How do I register this fact?

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

The average person has only read 5 books? Wow - there must be a lot of zeros because almost everyone I know must be well into 3 figures if not 4.

[natural20.livejournal.com]

I wish I had more money too. :) However time is by far the more scarce resource.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that by "few" you mean "around three" as opposed to penguinsteph's family definition of "twenty".

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

This is begging for a delicious books read poll with five book increments. Mmm, might do this later.

Current polls results: unsurprising.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

i wish my hair was not grey - cos there is no such thing as a perfect dye-job...

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I had trouble picking between time and money, but in the end surprised myself and went for "money". Perhaps that's because I have vacation coming up next week, and for once I will have some time...

Hair is greying, but at least it's in a dignified instead of "OMG yer old" manner. It's also not sloughing off into the sink. I'll keep it.

And I've been woefully low on reading these days, having spent far too much time staring at words on screens in the office seems to burn that out. Oddly, though, my DVD collection has grown to the point that it's about to overrun my storage capacity.

-- Steve's wondering if it's time to box up those old VHS cassettes. (Mind you, they still do get some use now and then.)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

In general I like my hair, but I'm BORED because it's been basically the same style since FOREVER, unless you count 'extra frizz' as a different style.

Ooh! Ooh! I have an appropriate icon!

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I'd like more time and more money.

[neferet.livejournal.com]

I wish I had more money... because it would let me straighten out a lot of things which would then mean I had more time.... :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Can we get a definition on "few" versus "lot"?

I read "a lot" of books - I get through 1 a week or so, WAY down from my previous rate but still 50+ a year. I'd call that a lot compared to 5.

My wife goes through one every two days or so. Sometimes faster. She cheats by having bus time to read, but she reads MUCH more than I do.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

I read 62 books last year and am currently halfway through my 28th of this year (Natural History by Justina Robson) which is not as many as some people I know, but is still way more than the average member of the population so I guess I'm doing ok. I like my hair the way it is - I need to get around to going to the hairdresser to have the split ends tidied up (in fact, I should probably have done so about a year ago), but apart from that I think it's ok.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

How many full books I read last year is desperately small, definitely fewer than five. But I'm in grad school, so I pretty much only get to read something if I've either assigned or been assigned it, and I rarely read the whole thing even then.

Maybe someday I'll be able to read books again like a normal person. But I'm not holding my breath.