Last summer I started walking in the mornings before work, which I'm still doing fairly regularly. (Go me.)
At first I was listening to music, but because I'm not typically a music person (in that I don't follow trends and know about new bands) the work it took to find music that was good and find enough of it that I wouldn't get bored listening to it for an hour every day was just too much. (Find me a fainting couch!)
That's when I started listening to audiobooks while walking. I already listened to them on the way to work, so this means I'm doing double time on my reading (listening) in addition to the other books that I'm reading with my eyeballs. (My reading goal of 100 books is in the bag this year.) Fortunately my library has a pretty good collection of downloadable audiobooks (or CD audiobooks if I take the time to copy them onto my computer and transfer them to my MP3 player), so I was learning things and having a good time while getting some physical activity in. (Go me: redux.)
This weekend at work I was looking for my next downloadable audiobook and I saw someone had just returned Ulysses by James Joyce. And I figured...hey, I'll give it a shot. Not like I'm ever going to read the thing, right? Then my boss pointed out that it's structured around the story of the Odyssey, and I figured maybe I should listen to that first. But if I'm going to do that, then why not listen to the Iliad as well?
And so.
I decided to embark upon an EPIC SUMMER full of Trojans and Monsters and ending with...DUBLIN. Will I survive? Will I quit after one day of some guy droning on about how Achilles thinks Agamemnon is a jerk?
Time will tell.
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