Unfinished Novel & a Speeding Ticket
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Currently reading Seeing. Disturbing voting scenario in which the electorate turned out in astonishing numbers only to cast blank votes. Disturbing because I've really been very politically apathetic lately and leaned heavily to just...not...voting.
I suppose I'd like to continue reading the novel if only that I am loathe to put down a tome unfinished for any reason. However, I've struggled heavily through these first few chapters decoding, deciphering, usually only contextually grasping the entire meaning of one sentence before giving up and just plowing on through after achieving a rudementary understanding of the concept the author is trying to convey. I don't know if it's a lacking on my part as the reader, or his as the author. Perhaps I am not the target audience. It's not that I don't enjoy occasionally the complexity of the english language but maybe in this case the topic is just not interesting enough to me. Did I mention that I'm feeling apathetic these days?
An interesting bit of conversation with my father this past week included my recent aquisition of a speeding ticket. *sigh* In speaking to a law enforcement officer of a different town I met with concerning a different matter, he assured me that "Everyone gets a speeding ticket in..." the town that issued my citation. I pissed and moaned about it to my dad: I should have known better, everyone knows that town is a speed-trap, blah blah blah. Then I told dad how much I owed this fine city for my infraction: one hundred and forty two united states dollars. "How fast were you going?????!" Forty-five in a thirty. The state does not screw around. Cruel and Unusual Punishment, dad comisserated. There was a town somewhere, Nebraska I think, that was sued into bankruptcy because they had to pay back a bunch of speeding tickets written over a bunch of years. Somehow it was proven the municipality in question was acting out of the ordinary when compared to towns around it in the way it issued its speeding tickets, or something like that.
Yeah, that makes me feel better. I'll think about googling it someday, just out curiosity I suppose. Maybe write a letter to the editor. But most likely just getting it out in this entry will be more than enough. Probably the only reaction I'll have to getting a speeding ticket is to slow the hell down.
I suppose I'd like to continue reading the novel if only that I am loathe to put down a tome unfinished for any reason. However, I've struggled heavily through these first few chapters decoding, deciphering, usually only contextually grasping the entire meaning of one sentence before giving up and just plowing on through after achieving a rudementary understanding of the concept the author is trying to convey. I don't know if it's a lacking on my part as the reader, or his as the author. Perhaps I am not the target audience. It's not that I don't enjoy occasionally the complexity of the english language but maybe in this case the topic is just not interesting enough to me. Did I mention that I'm feeling apathetic these days?
An interesting bit of conversation with my father this past week included my recent aquisition of a speeding ticket. *sigh* In speaking to a law enforcement officer of a different town I met with concerning a different matter, he assured me that "Everyone gets a speeding ticket in..." the town that issued my citation. I pissed and moaned about it to my dad: I should have known better, everyone knows that town is a speed-trap, blah blah blah. Then I told dad how much I owed this fine city for my infraction: one hundred and forty two united states dollars. "How fast were you going?????!" Forty-five in a thirty. The state does not screw around. Cruel and Unusual Punishment, dad comisserated. There was a town somewhere, Nebraska I think, that was sued into bankruptcy because they had to pay back a bunch of speeding tickets written over a bunch of years. Somehow it was proven the municipality in question was acting out of the ordinary when compared to towns around it in the way it issued its speeding tickets, or something like that.
Yeah, that makes me feel better. I'll think about googling it someday, just out curiosity I suppose. Maybe write a letter to the editor. But most likely just getting it out in this entry will be more than enough. Probably the only reaction I'll have to getting a speeding ticket is to slow the hell down.
