April is drawing to a close and the course that I've been waiting to take

OK, there's only one more blog until May so that means that it's time for a new monthly goal. I've been thinking about a few and I'll let whoever is reading this drivel help me to decide what it's going to be. So, here's my short list:

• Subscribe to the New York Times (less than $4 a week for 7 day a week delivery)


• Start a weekly audio podcast centered on interesting news items.


• Have a conversation with a random person each day.


• Run 2 miles each morning (or something like that)

Just leave a comment on this entry and we'll take it from there.

Now on to the juicy stuff (and you'll see just how mundane my life has become in the next few sentences). I got a notice in the mail from Brooklyn College notifying me that they are offering two 2-day courses in both speed reading and the A+ study method!! LIke I said, pretty mundane stuff but this is the kind of thing that does it for me. Anyway, the courses are supper cheap (just $150 each) and I imagine that they will pay for themselves in a fairly short period of time. I remember one time when Taz, Naomi, the mystery man, and I were driving back from Geneva, I saw Taz practically flipping the pages of some tome and saying that she was speed-reading. I remember from that day on, joking about how she was just reading "and", "the", "you", and the occasional exclamation point. Either way, I've wanted learn how to speed read since then and the opportunity has finally presented itself. Furthermore, it's definitely going to be a useful skill that should enable me to enroll in more classes and get out of school faster and when it all comes down to it, that's the goal.