hey, it's that pad of paper again. i just found it in the space between the wall and my bed, as i rolled over to try to fall asleep. i should be asleep because it's late and everybody else is asleep, but i'm not sleepy. so, maybe i'll write instead.
i just finished this big book of short stories that nana gave me, called the early asimov, by somebody named isaac asimov. nana gives me lots and lots of books. mom doesn't like it because she thinks i should play outside more, but nana thinks that it doesn't make sense to choose between playing outside and reading and i should do both. she says it's important to read. mom doesn't think kids should read, but she listens to nana. nana is her mom, so i guess she has to listen to nana, just like i have to listen to mom. that makes sense to me. mom's husband, tony, thinks i should read, but that i should only read allowed christian books, and nana really doesn't like that so she buys me lots of science books, instead, and tells mom it's very important i read them and tony is wrong. some of them are books about things like dinosaurs or astronomy or animals, like cats. i know about all the dinosaurs because i have books with pictures in them that have descriptions of them. and, i know about all the planets and all the moons on all the planets and even how stars work inside, a little bit. i also know about all of the countries and all of the capital cities in all of the countries because i have books with maps that are fun to sort through and imagine stories about travelling through. tony sometimes gets mad that i read all these science books, so nana once asked me to explain to tony that i like the science books a lot, and he seemed to get less mad after that. he even bought me some different science books, with pictures of people walking with dinosaurs, but i know those books are silly, because there weren't really people back then. but, maybe there were. i wasn't there, so i don't remember. but, there can still be books about people walking with dinosaurs, even if it's silly, i think.
before tony lived here, mom had a friend called nadine that stayed here. nadine was a university student. she studied philosophy. she once said there are negative numbers in real life, like actual negative numbers, but i don't believe her. that's silly. if you have a lot of apples, you can take some apples away, but you can't have a negative number of apples. nadine said you could, but i just refused to believe it and told her she was wrong. she laughed and said i shouldn't get so upset about things that are so "trivial", which means not important, but i don't think believing in negative things is trivial. it's not true! i don't like it when people tell me things that aren't true, it makes me upset. nadine used to tell me a little bit about science and i think it's one of the reasons i like science.
but, i already liked science, though, too, because my favourite movies ever are ghostbusters and et. i used to watch those movies lots and lots on the tv in the living room, in my care bears chair. and, that care bears chair is my chair - nobody else is ever allowed to sit in it, ever, or i'll get mad and push them out. don't ever sit in my care bears chair or we're going to get into a fight!
wow, it's really late. but, i really just finished reading this book by isaac asimov. at first, i thought it was going to be one big story, with chapters, so i was confused. but, then i realized it's actually a bunch of different stories. but, then i thought it was one big story, because there were some of the same characters, so, i don't know if it's different stories or one story. but some of the stories are about space ships and martians and people from venus, and it's fun to think about. i took notes about these stories in a different notebook that's for books i read only, so i won't talk too much about what they're about in detail, here. i'll just be general, here. but, i liked reading the stories, even if they used big words that i didn't always understand. dad gave me a dictionary, and i sometimes look words up in it if i don't know what they mean. he gave me the dictionary because i always asked him what words mean, and he usually didn't know, either. so, we would go to look up words, together. now, i know how to look up words and can look them up when i'm at mom's, too.
i like reading stories that are about ideas more than stories that are just about stories. stories are fun sometimes, but they're just stories, and stories that are just stories are just stories. a story has to be really good if it's just a story, and most stories aren't really good, so they aren't that much fun. but, if a story is about an idea, the story doesn't have to be as good to be fun because the idea can be fun, instead. i already knew that before i was eight, but, now that i'm eight, i really know that for sure. i think this isaac asimov book had stories that were more fun because they had ideas. the stories themselves weren't always that fun, but they were fun because they had ideas.
i'm really sleepy and am about to fall asleep. it's really late!
but, i often have the radio on when i'm reading, too, and i really like this silly song called so alive that is playing all the time right now. it's on right now.
i'm not so alive right now, though. i'm so asleep...
