Making the most of the pre-dawn hours this Saturday morning, I checked in with Anotherthing2, who resumed posting for a while after an absence. He had an excellent link to a reading list for college freshmen and sophomores; of the 57 works noted, I’ve read about 20 of them at some point in my life.

Many of those were not as a college student, but as a sophomore at Oak Ridge High School, courtesy of a tough but enjoyable class known as Combined Studies. Several others were in various English classes in high school, except Don Quixote, which we covered in Spanish III.

However, that was so very long ago, I think I need to re-read most of them. I haven’t had time to read as much lately as I like to, though on Mother’s Day, I did spend the afternoon on the couch with Alpha’s copy of The Optimist’s Daughter, reading it cover to cover.

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One which I would love to read, but don’t know if it exists, is a book of all the shortcut keys for Windows. Especially those bizarre shortcuts that can drive one utterly crazy if they’re accidentally hit, producing strange results, like ctrl-alt-↑. Go ahead — try it!

Leaving one’s laptop open overnight with cats in the house can result in all manner of strange key combinations being pressed. That’s the one I woke up to this morning.

My cats are as strange as everyone else in this house.