I'm reading a lot more at the moment. I have always envied well read people; I think it is because they have witty anecdotes they can produce from a popular text that gathers laughter and acclaim from the audience the said anecdote is delivered to. That and I really like words. Words are excellent. I know I have very poor grammar, but I always appreciate words.
Of late I've made a commitment to myself to read more often. Texts, not magazines (I will never stop reading motorsport news though, it is a bit of an obsessions for me. I've read it without break since about 1996/7, originally fortnightly but monthly since last year). The easiest way into the literary world is via the Popular Penguin series. I think this series is just so clever, so true to the original penguin charter. So far I've read In Cold Blood, Lolita & am currently half way into High Fidelity. The first release of the series contains 25 fiction and 25 non fiction titles, I really hope to read the fiction texts by the time uni starts back.
As I mentioned at the start though, I think that reading opens you to fun views, practices and the like. One practice that I just love, from High Fidelity, is the list of girls at the start. Just brilliant. So here I go, a list of girls that I've pined for. Well maybe not, but Ill run through the distinct phases of affection that I've had, so more a breakdown of lust. I think that will be fun.
School
I think we have, invariably, our first crushes at primary school. I, like most of the other boys at school, liked one girl who was pretty, intelligent and sporty. Whilst I had other crushes about that time (on girls who had developed early...) she was the lasting one. Seeing we went to the same high school my crush continued into high school for a few years, until some of the other girls became a little more attractive. I had one lasting crush most of school on one very attractive girl, mainly because she was just so pretty. She was nice enough, but always had much older boy friends so she was never really on the cards.
During school different groups of boys started seeing girls from different schools, namely Loreto and Cheltenham girls. I had crushes on girls from both these schools, and saw a Chelephant for a little while, but was so emotionally immature nothing really happened. There was a gorgous girl from Cheltenham who all the boys had crushes on, I wish that I would have kissed her at some point but never did (mainly because she didn't like me. Small technicality).
Schoolies
At schoolies I kissed two girls. The first night (which was in fact the second night of the week, I had spent the first in BrisVegas for my cousins 21st) I kissed some girl who I think was pretty, but that night was also the first time that I'd ever got very drunk, so I can't remember much of it. The second night and each night thereafter I kissed one girl who was lovely, but I think that she kissed everyone else in the building, including one of my room mates. Well, he had tried to sleep with her and it hadn't worked on the first night, but I think they were star crossed lovers for most of the week and I just got in the middle. Still, good fun.
Uni
In first year there was so much love going around. Like heaps. True to form, I wasn't part of any of it. I think I kissed a couple of girls, but was so shy I didn't kiss many and many didn't kiss me. This was not so disappointing at the time, but seems all the more disappointing looking back on those days now.
In second year right through to the early years of work I was caught up in a love network involving those who I worked with at Uni. I think that I liked most of them at different stages, but nothing ever happened. I in turn liked all their friends, but not much eventuated from them either. A few cheeky pashes perhaps, but nothing of much consequence (nee any consequence).
Today
Well so much remains the same. I still have crushes on those about uni, but nothing ever really happens. I think that if I can draw one lesson from High Fidelity, above and beyond the wonders of the list, it is to be a little more care free. I shall indeed try this in the future in my new well read state.
Anywho, I've always tried to make mixtapes for my friends, so I guess I've some of it down already.
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