Bean Bag Blessings

This year is a red-letter year for reading. I had read about 36 new books before I started school. I haven't read a single book in the past month but that doesn't mean I haven't been reading. Every week I read hundreds of pages worth of articles on various topics related to my courses.

I am taking 8 courses. These include international law, negotiations, history of the Middle East, research methods, an interdisciplinary seminar, and classes on various approaches to conflict: socio-physchological approaches, cultural approaches, and political approaches. Needless to say, I am reading on an almost non-stop basis right now.

So, how does one break up the oft experienced monotony of non-stop reading? After all, to quote Pride and Prejudice, one needs something refreshing "after sitting so long in one attitude".

The library here has provided at least some degree of solace in this regard. They have a bean bag room! You can sleep there if you like (well, as he likes). But you can also change your "attitude" by reading in a colorful bean bag!

There are so many bean bags to choose from, there are even more than are pictured here!

What an ingenious idea for a university library! It makes me want to go do some more reading!