Cameron La Rue

So the biggest obstacle with this goal was actually getting people’s addresses. I got the mailing addresses for seven of my friends and sent the postcards off on a wednesday. Friday night I got a text message from my friend Aaron saying he’d received the postcard and it was cool. So yeah, definitely worth it. And in the future I can do this again very easily. As long as my friends don’t all move…

I’ve got postcards filled out and ready to send. I just need to buy some stamps. I plan to do it tomorrow morning. Once I drop them in a box, I can mark this goal as done, and then mark it as something I want to do again in a month or two.

So last night, before I went to the bar with my friends, I stopped at the new and used book store. I brought a list with 3 of the “classics” I randomly selected. The one I was really hoping for, Gravity’s Rainbow, wasn’t there. But that same author has another book on the list, The Crying of Lot 49, and that WAS there. And honestly, the cover says “A bizarre, saturnalian plunge into the underground. A streamlined doomsday machine.” How can anyone resist that blurb? I had to look up saturnalian. It means “Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry”. Jeez, I learned something just reading the blurb on the cover. Already, I’m a more knowledgeable person.
I also happened to see a book called Glimmer, about an 18 year old girl who lost her mom, and is in her first year of college and has a kind of nervous breakdown. Just from the little bit I skimmed through at the store, I knew I’d love it. So I grabbed that too. Next step… start reading.