1. Empty parking lot– Open sign in full view at lunch.
2. Full parking lot — building with no windows.
3. Front door is cracked and covered with duct table.
4. Overwhelming bleach (or marijuana) odor on entry.
5. Lone waitress, barely legal to drive, is only waitstaff. Ginormous Cook in back doubles as bouncer.
6. Laminated but delaming dining table with extensive burn marks.
7. Menu marked with brown finger prints.
8. Stale chips or bread.
9. Sticky floor.
10. Unreadable handwritten total on bill.

She mentioned, out of the blue (unrelated to me writing a book) that she wanted to start carrying her book in her purse. She said the magic word, book, so I asked what she was reading. She couldn’t remember the title but told me the story so that I could narrow it down to a Sherman Alexie book.

She also mentioned she wanted to capture those five or ten minutes while waiting in line around town running errands by reading her book. I also now carry my book in my purse. And I carry the book for the exact same reason, to recapture those few minutes waiting. It is rare that I can sit down and read for even thirty minutes.

So how and when do you read? Do you wish your reading situation would change or you like it just the way it is?

I’m lazy and don’t have much time in front of the computer. That will change some day, but not in the next year or two. I was using delicious.com for my bookmark management across sites but it doesn’t work that well on my phone so I started stuffing everything into Google reader. Once I find a site I want to keep up with so I add it to  Google Reader. I have Google Reader on my phone so most of my reading is via RSS feeds on my phone.

If a site doesn’t have an RSS feed and it’s not a big name site (like cnn.com), there is very little chance I will ever return. I troll the big sites occasionally but not often.

So pretty much it’s Google Reader or a search. My husband swears I’m very odd by only reading from RSS and that the rest of the world doesn’t read like this. So how do they read? I’m not talking about finding a new site to read. I’m talking about once you find a site, how do you keep it on your regular radar.

So, how do you?

Just days ago, he announced a blog he started to write about his journey from one life to another, from one place to another. I expect this blog to be amazing because I’ve had a year of amazing stories from Jeremy. But I don’t want to keep him a secret. I want you to know. Here is his blog.