Ayudame...

Anybody have suggestions on how I can focus better on my reading? I just spend the last 30 minutes reading 15 pages in a textbook and I can seem to recall much. My eyes read it, it goes into my brain for a brief time, and now that I try to recall it, it's pretty much a blank. I hate feeling stupid.

On a more interesting note, I was talking to one of my fellow TESOL grad students and out of nowhere she told me that she liked my nose. Now, she's from the Ukraine so perhaps over there they have an appreciation for bird-like noses. I dunno and frankly, I was taken a little aback but since I am not one to turn down a compliment...