So this week I got the news that a friend of mine would be personifying cowardice by deleting his myspace account and activating his facebook. Unfortunately this man, desperately fleeing from a failed relationship, happens to be my best friend, so I reactivated my account as well. I should stop bashing him, because it could be good for me as well. I have a favouritism of myspace, yet I've only ever used the service for the past 4 years as a means to force vulgar internet fads and comments on people who either aren't online on AIM or don't like to use their email. I've got less than 10 friends and I'm already getting more action than most of that time. Fucking sigh...

Another excuse to avoid the fleshy kind of people came when I discovered goodreads in my foolishly planned 2 hour period between classes. I'm sure it's nowhere near new--it's incredibly developed! It's a site where you can post reviews on books, read other people's reviews, mindlessly indulge on trivia of books you've probably never read, slam your palm into your forehead when you see the global ratings of some books, and share quotes from various authors--although not from their prose/poetry, oddly; people like to be told how to live after all. I'm sure there's actually some kind of person-to-person interaction at some point, but golly I'm having fun just finally having a place to pontificate about how overrated Twilight and Harry Potter are while I suckle on Oscar Wilde's flamboyant moobs... For some reason I have a feeling that statement will be taken more seriously, or perhaps just more disturbingly, than I intended.

But seriously, their database is huge. For example, I was going to put in a quote from Goethe's Faust and, as I clicked to search for the title, there were dozens of titles from Goethe's letters and plays and just all variety of literary accomplishments. I'd recommend it to anyone who casually or seriously enjoys literature. Even though there are people who have fifteen of my lifetimes worth of books read, it was uplifting to discover that I'm not as illiterate as I'd thought.

I'll try to get some more updating done after I finish the busy work that my classes have me doing. Until then, here I am on goodreads [link] and if you have a facebook, just do a search for Doug Schmierer, because I have no clue how to link a facebook