Escape.

So after rocking up to work in my usual Monday morning daze, I ate some breakfast, downed a 600ml Coke (the nectar of the gods) and started to feel slightly more alive. Then it happened... the weekly team meeting. *sigh* No matter what Monday it is you can guarantee, without fail, that I will forget about the meeting until someone says something about it. Maybe it's my subconcious way of blotting it from my memory or something.

Anyway I thought I had escaped the meeting pretty much unscathed until someone said something about some scheduled work we had all, collectively, blotted from our memories... see it isn't just me!!... and it turns out that work scheduled for tonight was scheduled for, yup you guessed it, yours truly. So tonight saw me working back late, mainly spending most of my time on waiting on the servers I was working on to finish their work so I could continue with mine.

All I can say is thank goodness for the escape provided by reading. Reading Eldest has been great, and I am getting very deeply involved in it. I love reading a book and being able to completely escape from the reality around you. Whether that be on a crowded morning train to work, a lonely quiet office after everyone has gone home or reading in bed before sleep. That ability to immerse yourself so deeply in a book that you forget everything else is so refreshing and so pleasurable. It's like waking from a dream when you put the book down and more often than not you discover that time has flown by. That's what happened tonight, thankfully, I delved into the world of Alagaesia and the fact that I left at 20:20 instead of 17:00 didn't seem to bother me that much... until I got home and realised just how tired I was!!

I guess you never know if something you experience is the same for everyone but for all those that don't read or believe that reading is a worthwhile activity (and yes I realise the irony of voicing this in a forum where reading is the receiving mechanism) if you can really get into a good book it is one of life's simple pleasures.