Chirky

Over the past several weeks, I've been interviewing for a new job. I've been to meeting after meeting, and I'm beginning to wonder whether I'll ever receive a job offer. Mix that with my tendency to overanalyze and my flair for drama, and someone better get me a brown paper bag, stat!

Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.

Because of all the spare time I have on my hands, what with the lack of a job and all, I have managed to finish reading two books. In the last four days.

My favorite was Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I'm not much for cheesy romance novels, but this one is low on the cheese and has a healthy amount of reality. It's set in the 1800s, during the California Gold Rush. One of my favorite things about this book is how Rivers took the plot and developed it so well that I could identify with the characters.

I laughed, cried, got angry and then overjoyed, all while reading this book. It's definitely a re-read. I'll just have to wait for a year or so until I've forgotten the majority of the details. Well, that's not true. I actually read it over a year ago, and haven't read it since, and I still remember it. Maybe I should read it again, because how do I know how much I've forgotten? Maybe I don't remember as much as I think I do. I'll have to let you know about that.

With movies, it happens in five minutes. I watch a movie, and I can forget it almost instantaneously - I'll forget not only WHAT I watched, but what it was about. I'm constantly amazed by people (usually guys) who have a talent for seeing a movie once, and twenty minutes afterward they're quoting lines from it. And two weeks afterward, they can STILL remember it well enough to quote it.

How do they do that?