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Sunday, 30 August 2009
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BBC Reading....
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'Yes' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - no-but it's on my to-do-someday list. :) Does that count?
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- no *snore* Movie is SOOOO much simpler!
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Yes-personal fave.
4 Harry Potter series - no-but really like the movies.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes-freshman English, oh joy... Omigosh you HAVE to watch the movie-Gregory Peck as Atticus and Robert Duvall as Boo Radley. It DOES NOT get any better than that! Seriously...classic American Cinema.
6 The Bible - yes, and in it's entirety-aren't you proud of me?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no-Cathy and Heathcliff are looney tunes :/ I got enough looneys in my world, thank you very much.
8 1984 - George Orwell- no-not interested in the whole "Big Brother" thing...
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no, but I think this is being made into a movie...wait, ain't this a series? Like "Golden Compass" and whatnot? Methinks so.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Yes-freshman english yet again. But this one I actually liked.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Yes-'92 movie w/ Wynona Rider rox my sox HARDCORE. And makes me want to copulate with Christian Bale. 0_o
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - no-but I've read LOTS of shakespeare. That should count for something.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - no-it creeps me out a little bit-don't ask me why.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -Yes-American Lit, Jounior Year. Why in the world is the American education system still requiring impressionable American youth to read a book that has been found in the possession of at least two famous murderers? And you think money's the issue here?
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – no-DAGNABIT! If only I was filling this out 8 weeks from now, it could be a yes-gotta finish Julie & Julia, and tackle EW Ives epic tome on Anne Boleyn before I get to this one. Grrrrr.....
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - No
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - No, but watching the movie so many times that you can quote the dialouge in your sleep should count for something, right?
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - no-but I know the story backwards and forwards. That's ALL my brother talked about spring of Junior year. His lit class read it. Mine was subjected to the deep fried insipidness that is "Where The Heart Is"-gag me with a large spoon, please.
But OH MY GOSH. Robert Redford and Mia Farrow will frickin' steam up your TV screen if you watch the movie. And Sam Watterston pre-Law & Order? YES, please. I have SUCH a crush on him, even though he's practically old enough to be my grandparent. I mean, come ON. Just watch it. you'll see what I'm talking about.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no-that requires brain cells which I no longer have, and will never regain.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no-um, no. Just no.
26a Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - NO. OMIGOSH. DO NOT get me started. UGH.
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no-again, the brain cell thing.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - no-not a Steinbeck fan.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - no
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no-but I loved the Disney Cartoon as a kid. I miss "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride"...*sigh*
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no-stupidness. and depressing. No thank you.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Yes-that's like a ten-hankie book. Awwwwww.....
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - no-but on my to-do list.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - no-see above.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes-but isn't this part of CoN? Hmmmm...
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - No-not my taste.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - no-but i vaguely remember the movie...
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden – no-on my to-do list.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Yes, I think.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no-using farm Animals as a semi-metaphorical symbol of communism? I have better things to read, thank you.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -no-again, don't get me started. Okay, one word-SACRILEGE.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -Yes. I absolutely LOVE the whole series!
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes-Sophmore english-UGH. HATRED. I swear my teacher was Satan incarnate...
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan – Yes. WONDERFUL Book. The movie absolutely tarnished it though.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel – no-maybe someday.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -no-giant sand worms and freaky silver and gold clad alien people.?That's why I don't fo sci-fci.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no-again, on my to-do. Movie is great, though. A fave.
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no-sounds like a Disney song, LOL.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -Yes, unfortunately. World Lit, Senior Year. Loved my teacher, HATED the book. My stomach is turning just thinking about it. *GACK*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - no-at least, I don't think so...maybe...
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Yes-LURVE that book.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes-another one of Satan's required readings. ICK.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no-too violent for my taste. Movie looks interesting though.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - no
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -no
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - no
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Yes. Another fave.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - yes, parts of it. Does that count?
76 The Inferno - Dante - I want to say yes (another high school english thing) but i'm not sure...
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - no
80 Possession - AS Byatt - no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - no-but I've seen pretty much every movie version one can conjure up. That should count.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - no
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - no-I don't like him.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - no
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – no..I think I've read parts, though.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Yes
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - no
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - Yes. Lit, 2nd semester college. Good Stuff. Movie w/ Kenneth Branagh & Kate Winslet is good, too.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -no-started to, but did not like it.
21. BOOYA. I love you, BBC, but you can totally SUCK IT.
Sunday, 08 March 2009
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Chronicles of a Virus
Saturday, February 28: Get strange headache while watching friend sing at coffee shop. I blame it on the caffienated atmosphere, but gets worse after I leave. Have been unreasonably irritable/grouchy all day. Hmmmm....
Sunday, March 1: I spent several wee hours of the morning (between brief periods of slumber), wondering why my sinuses felt filled with a painful combination of fire, electricity, and concrete. My throat was very sore as well. My immediate thought: "I wonder if sinus infections are contagious?" My aide had one that week, and I feared she had gifted it to me. I hoped it was just dry air/bad allergies. Just in case, I stuck a zinc swab up my nose, drank some OJ, and took Sudafed. After watching a gay little B movie about semi-retired fighter pilots, I sat engrossed in an edited for TV version of "Blow", awestruck by the craziness that was cocaine dealer George Jung's life. I also started to appreciate Penelope Cruz as an actress, at least for the hour she was onscreen.
By the end of the movie, I determined that I was indeed sick. I don't really remember much about that night.
Monday, March 2: Spent day on the computer moaning to all my facebook friends how much I hate being sick-this was the third time in 8 weeks-first the violent vomit/super squirts, then an icky head cold, now this! Cannot breathe out of left nostril-stuck Zinc swab up it anyway, drank OJ. Sick spoiled girl gets homemade veggie beef soup for dinner.
Tuesday, March 3: Drug my sick butt out of bed a half-hour early in order to be on time for a meeting. Wanted oatmeal, but due to time constraints, I settled for toast and OJ. I'm not much of an OJ drinker so three days in a row is saying something. Despite being late (go figure), meeting was mercifully short. Had hard time talking due to lack of oxygen. Decided not to go work or Bible Study due to fatigue. Left nostril still completely obstructed, despite Sudafed. Blow giant holes in countless kleenex trying to rid nostril of obstruction, to no avail. Stick small heat pad on nose/sinus area, hoping for relief. No such. Take nap, keep complaining to my mother that I can't breathe. Late that night, I improvise my own homemade version of one those ridiculous Netti pots using a straw and little paper cup full of warm water. Does nothing except make me cough and makes my throat/sinuses throb and burn.
Wednsday, March 4: Slept in, which helped some, still miserable. Got oatmeal for breakfast-sat and hung head over steaming bowl for long time, still clogged. By evening, I am coughing. My head and teeth hurt like a...well, figure it out. Give up on zinc. Throat huts too bad for OJ-drink White grape instead. Moan, groan, desire death.
Thursday, March 5: Cough all day long, nose runs like niagara falls-at least it's not all clogged up anymore. Lots of snot & sinus pain, wonder if I am getting a sinus infection. Mom gets me some cookies, then decides to procure me some cough medicine. Returns nearly hour and half later with the only medicine that works for me. Mondo stomach cramps. PMS kicks in. Determine that I have not been this cold sick in 4 years. Moan, groan desire death. No head start (work) for me today.
Friday, March 6: Shower. Oatmeal. Cough, hack, snort, honk, sniffle, sneeze, moan, groan, repeat. Truly lose my voice for the first time in my life. Have to forgo evening plans.
Stunned and amuzed by the fact that my voice sounds like the chihuaua barks on 'Beverley Hills Chihuaua', which we rent. Also watch 'Changeling.' Feel like I need to take a shower after watching creepy murderer guy. 
Throat stings and burns like a...y'know....
Saturday, March 7: Starting to feel better. Request fish sticks, more cookies, and some kind of frozen fruit bar for my raw throat. Tired of breathing through my mouth and drying out the aforementioned raw throat, I ask for menthol nasal spray. On phone with mother while she scouts for fish sticks without MSG-no such, so we settle for pack with least MSG. Scout for raspberry fruit bars and nasal spray successful. Upon arriving home, discover fruit bars have Splenda in them-a headache waiting to happen.
Mother freezes white grape juice in small paper cup-has desired effect. 
Continuously amazed at my lack of voice and volume of mucus my sinus cavity can hold. Relaxing evening in front of the television.
Sunday, March 8: Consider myself back in land of living. Weak, tired, raspy, but better. Nose still giving me fits, but nasal spray is helping a lot. Had hasty pudding, aka cornmeal mush for breakfast. First time. Dad made it-good stuff. Bothered by weird smells/tastes in nose and throat. Occasional hacking, snorting, honking. Breathing more freely through nose at last. Amazed at what a crappy typer I am while infirm. Fish sticks or pizza for dinner? Hmmmm....
Sunday, 11 January 2009
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhhhh!
My brother is a Grade-A asshole-it's not like I WANT him chauffering me around town...jeez...
I went out tonight, and though I did get what I came for, I was surrounded by STRANGERS.
One person I did see, whom I thought I was on friendly terms with, COMPLETELY IGNORED ME. HE KNEW I WAS SITTING THERE! Get over it, already, You giant flaming fruit loop! I have. Oh, what, you're too good to talk to me now?
If I see ONE MORE wedding announcement/engagment ring photo, I am going to SHOOT MY BRAINS OUT.
I AM SO TOTALLY FIGURATIVELY AND LITERALLY ALONE!!!!!!
Yeah, yeah, I know: "You're not alone, God is always with you..." BLAH-FRICKIN'-BLAH-BLAH! SPARE ME THE SPIRITUAL BS. SCREW IT. I am NOT in the mood!
I'm ALWAYS alone. I'll ALWAYS be alone. Everyone I would call and cry to is asleep-see? I told you...A-LONE!
Oh, did I mention I have PMS BIG-TIME?
I think that's all.
I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now. I'd say sweet dreams, but the only dreams I'll be having involve chain saws and various body parts. I'll even be alone in my dreams after I implement the chain saw.
Saturday, 06 December 2008
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By David Cook
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see related(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame
Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends.
6. Anyone tagged has to do the same, because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus.
If someone says, “Are you okay?” you say?
Along Comes A Woman-Chicago [Kinda Fits, seeing as I'm a woman and all]
How would you describe yourself?
People Ain't No Good-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds [Sounds about right :)]
What do you like in a guy/girl?
Instinct Blues-The White Stripes {Hmmm...that could be interpreted many ways...]
How do you feel today?
Rhythm Is a Dancer-Snap! [Uh...I don't wanna dance today...]
What is your life’s purpose?
One Night-Elvis Presley [Ha...I wish]
What is your motto?
The Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin [Score!]
What do your friends think of you?
Curtain Call-Dreamgirls soundtrack [Um, okay.]
What do you think of your parents?
It's Alright (Send Me)-Winans Phase 2 [Pssh...I don't think so!]
What do you think about very often?
Psalm 19-Code of Ethics [I have been reading my Bible daily,]
What is 2 + 2?
Satellite-Anna Nalick [Eh, why not? I do love the song, but not arithmetic.]
What do you think of your best friend?
Can't Help Falling in Love-Elvis Presley [Oh, the irony...0.o]
What do you think of the person you like?
On My Own-BarlowGirl [Whoa-that's like, creepy perfect. Seriously. Look up the lyrics.]
What is your life story?
The End of All Things-LOTR Return of the King soundtrack {That's rather accurate.]
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Only for the Weak-Avalon [Haha. That's kinda funny.]
What do you think of when you see the person you like?
You-Plus One [Go figure. :)]
What will you dance to at your wedding?
I Will Wait-Paradigm [Huh. Fitting.]
What will they play at your funeral?
I Love You Lord-Code of Ethics [Meh, I suppose...]
What is your hobby/interest?
Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!-Patti LuPone [Mmmkay...]
What is your biggest fear?
If She Would Have Been Faithful-Chicago [Wow. Lesbian vibe, anyone? BLEH.]
What is your biggest secret?
Hurt (Remix)-Christina Aguilera [That ain't no secret.]
What do you think of your friends?
He Will Come Through-Jeremy Camp [Pretty much.]
What will you post this as?
(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame-Elvis Presley [My, my. That Elvis sure knows how to pick 'em.]
Saturday, 22 November 2008
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Dear Chris
I am sad that your family is suffering, and I'm not happy you're gone, but I look at your death as a blessing, because now I can finally let you go. I loved you in a way that only you and I could understand, even though we never met, and I'm still wasn't able to let go, even 2 years after the fact. Now that you're gone, I can finally close this chapter of my life. I'm just sorry your part of the story didn't have a happy ending.
I'm letting you go, but I will never forget you. There will never be another Toga King-you were the original.
I hope you are at peace.
Love,
Your Toga Queen
songbyrd100
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