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Approaching very quickly I have 2 plane rides, each more or less 5 hours long. Approaching even more quickly is the end of the last book of the trilogy I am reading. With the end of this book also comes the end of the 11 books I bought a couple months ago, meaning I will have read every book on my shelf at least once. Time to buy more books, or find a good one to re-read.

As I will have to cover the plane flights plus the expected interim while the people around me zip by in wedding preparations, I want a long book – that way I don’t have to bring several books to weigh down my luggage. Because these are the things I think about while procrastinating for other things, I took a look at the “library” and made my selection: Homer’s Odyssey. It’s long, worth reading again, and it will be kind of fresh to me since I haven’t read it since college (freshman year?).

Then this morning while reading The Times (I love saying that – it makes me feel hoity-toity for some reason) I discovered that a new translation of The Aeneid is coming out Thursday. Though I’m familiar with the Aeneid, I’ve never actually read it. So there’s the book I should buy. Problem is, Thursday is the day I leave. I won’t have time after work to stop by the bookstore, and I’ll need it for the plane.

So I’ll stick with Homer. But I do think it says something about me that this was an issue at all.