I woke up this morning to David leaning over to kiss me awake. It was one of those strange moments when you open your eyes to find somebody leaning over you millimetres away from your face. I wasn't disturbed but I was surprised. It was a nice surprise.
I had dreamt about being in Israel, attending the first Jewish wedding to be had in the country for 5,000 years (?). A total of 9 million Jews attended this historical event. I also dreamt about a baby dying and we insisting on the funeral having an open casket. I was shopping for baby caskets and an elderly couple told me of how in the olden days, when babies died, people just buried them in the backyard with a few choice memorable items. He remembered a time in his life when this happened, and began to describe how the memorial items chosen on that particular occasion were a little strange.... annoyingly, on waking, I cannot remember just why they were strange, but they weren't teddy bears or baby things, I guess.
I blame the latter part of the dream on yesterday's book. I won't go into too much detail, you may not have read the book. I still haven't finished it, about 80 pages to go. I was tempted to
break my own rules again and continue on with reading this one, but instead after David brought me coffee I started reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
David described this book as dense, if you've been following my blog, you'll note that I've described this book as quite small (it's not much more than 200 pages in length). About the time it takes me to drink my coffee, I get to the end of chapter one (Our Picture Of The Universe) and there is the bookmark from a previous reader. Apparently, this is one of the most widely owned but rarely read books. A bit like the christian bible then. David comes in with the breakfast (fried noodles, halloumi, eggs and baked beans. We watch the latest episode of Glee.
After breakfast, I get to the end of Chapter 2 (Space and Time) and although I feel like I've understood the concepts described within these pages I also just have to accept on faith that the majority of the information described to me here is factually correct. I really have no way of verifying whether it is or it isn't. I'm looking forward to Chapter 3 (The Expanding Universe) because I figure that my love of all things Sci-Fi has given me a better foundation than for the previous chapter.
One thing that I'm really noticing is that I am having to reread a heck of a lot of the material as I progress. Also, my brain is constantly trying to distract me after nearly every paragraph to just stop trying to understand this stuff and instead focus on something else, anything else! It is almost ludicrous how desperate it is at attempting to divert my attention away from what Stephen Hawking is saying, some of the distractions are quite hilarious indeed. I can only imagine this is going to get harder as I progress through the pages. Ah well, sometimes popular is painful, I imagine that this one is going to take the full 3.5 days to finish, maybe even longer, but read it all I shall.
Days Left: 362
Books Left: 100
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