I have a healthy fear of snakes, but that's because if there is one poisonous snake in the woods that day, it will be on my path. I regale people with the tale of the day that I found all three kinds of poisonous snakes that PA has in the space of half an hour, or rather they found me.
I will go into brackish water, but only running brackish water, as if that would somehow keep the leeches off me.
I understand your #3 really, really well. We also didn't have much money, and I didn't get a library card until middle school, so I was stuck with what I could scrounge together (I would shovel sidewalks, rake leaves, do errands and buy books or G.I. Joes with the money) or the elementary school library. As I was an very fast reader (adult novel in 30 minutes kind of fast), and reading at college level in 3rd grade, this was not enough.
I still reread because I can't afford my reading habit.
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Date: 2011-02-23 04:36 pm (UTC)I will go into brackish water, but only running brackish water, as if that would somehow keep the leeches off me.
I understand your #3 really, really well. We also didn't have much money, and I didn't get a library card until middle school, so I was stuck with what I could scrounge together (I would shovel sidewalks, rake leaves, do errands and buy books or G.I. Joes with the money) or the elementary school library. As I was an very fast reader (adult novel in 30 minutes kind of fast), and reading at college level in 3rd grade, this was not enough.
I still reread because I can't afford my reading habit.