I have a lot of reading to do this semester. This morning I finished reading Chapter 4 for history, so that was good. But then I looked at what I was supposed to read next for English class, and it was the “Kenya” section of Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father. Now, we already read the Origins section, the first part of the book. But the syllabus says that we’re now reading Kenya, so I e-mailed the teacher and confirmed that we’re supposed to skip the “Chicago” section in the middle. I’m not sure why skipping the middle section of an autobiography is a good idea, but since I have to read Kenya for Tuesday, I guess I’ll be doing that skip. It’s not as big a deal in something like a history textbook, where chapters are about specific time periods and you can go between them pretty easily. But an autobiography, that’s just weird.