In the beginning...

So here I am writing my very first entry for my newly made blog. It was mostly on a whim that I decided to involve myself in this new found way of wasting time, but I think I'm going to enjoy it.

I'm currently procrastinating a 6-8 page paper that I'm supposed to write for my Spanish Class, but before I can write it I need to read a book called "Mala Yerba" and come up with a topic. The book is about 220 pages long. I've read about 3 pages of it. In about 15 minutes. I need to have the paper done by Friday. Normally I'm a quick reader, but this book has a bunch of vocabulary that is way over my head. (The best part is that I consider myself fluent in the language, too.)

The reason why I bring this up, is because this book has the habit of going of on several tangents that are seemingly unrelated to the main purpose of the book. Ok, so they ARE completely unrelated to anything in the book. That's not the point. The point is, I have found out that some of these tangents can actually be pretty entertaining (at least to me) once I actually decipher what it's trying to say. For example, there is one part of the book where it begins to talk about a bull that lives on a cattle ranch. When you translate it, it says something similar to the following:

"Every now and then the bull would lift its mute snout to the heavens in thanks, perhaps because it had befallen him to enjoy his youth in such an abundant seraglio (place where the sheik keep their harem)..."

Now, I really have no clue what a lone paragraph about a bull and his harem have to do with the plot of this story, but maybe I'm just not that sophisticated enough to understand that sort of thing.

So, for the next while I'm going to be reading this book and trying to understand the meaning behind the bull so I can write the paper tomorrow. We'll see how it works out.