Naps, and Sims and Books and Sickness

I called in sick today. That cold I started to get on Saturday hit a new peak of horribleness this morning. I woke up with a sore throat and a headache and feeling awful, so I called in. It's a good thing I did, too, because I'm still feeling very crappy and the day is more than half over. Sigh. Stupid cold.

I also went in and took a nap this morning. I've said before that I don't nap unless I'm sick, and that is true, and even when I'm sick, I'm not very good at it. I laid in bed for over two hours, and I slept for a good portion of that, but I was in and out of consciousness, my mind racing almost the whole time. I was lying there trying to rest and feel better, and I was thinking about my Sims game, and about writing an entry in here (I think I composed an entry while I was in bed, and I think it sounded a lot different than this one does. I hope it wasn't better), and I was thinking about something that I got into right before I went to lay down.

I was reading an entry of Mopie's book blog, and she linked to her escapades list, which is a list of things that she wants to do. In that list is reading all of the books on four or five best books lists, and I searched online and found some of those lists and some different ones, and suddenly I want to read them all too! I bookmarked a few of them (the BBC's list, Time's list, the Modern Library list and the Radcliffe Publishing Course's list), and I want to go to the library right now and start getting books. If I feel well enough later to get showered and dressed and go, I will be.

I reserve the right to change my mind on which ones I want to get before I go (especially if I don't go today), but right now these are the ones I've got written down: The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren (one of the lists was in alphabetical order - Time's, I think. And it includes Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret, which I loved), His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (which is apparently a whole trilogy), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. It's a fun list, isn't it? Okay, now I really have to go to the library today.

And now I'm way too hot to keep working on this laptop (the temperatures are in the 80s, yuck), so that's it for this entry. If you have any other good reading suggestions, or if you loved or hated anything I've listed, write me a comment! I love talking about reading.