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But I have to say that a 4-day weekend would have been even lovelier than a 3-day one. Oh well. I do have Friday off, so it is a short work week for me.
I managed to be quite productive over the long weekend ( did too, but I couldn’t even begin to list off the things he worked on, let alone explain them; they involved power tools).
Instead of doing homework on Friday night, I have no idea what we did other than order pizza. Sad, I know. I’m sure it was lovely. (Come to think of it, we probably spent the rest of the night playing Super Mario Galaxy 2, which we bought on Thursday.)
Saturday started late in the morning – I skipped the free seminar at Bachman’s for sleep. I did get a haircut in the afternoon, which was fab. I could swear that half of the hair on my head ended up on the floor (the bottom of her shoes were caked, and while I’m sure I had nothing to do with it, the sweeper-thingy that salons use broke while she was trying to clean it all up). I only lost about an inch of length, however, and as is usual for hair stylists, my hair didn’t lose any volume either. (It wasn’t until I washed it on Sunday that I figured out how much she actually took off and yes, AfroGirl has been held at bay for another few months.) She thinned it out a deal, which was where all the hair on the floor was from. I should have taken a picture, but it was kinda gross.
We managed to get the spare bedroom suitable for guests, which was a lot of work since it had been the staging area during ‘s office remodel. (Plus, things got even more chaotic in there when it flooded and we had to move everything to the opposite side of the room.) The bathroom down there is acceptable too.
On Sunday I got a coat of paint on my nightstand, made up my jewelry for  ‘s wedding, and went to JoAnn. I’m sure there was other stuff, but again, I can’t remember.
Yesterday was the big productivity day. I did laundry, mowed the lawn, put another coat of paint on the nightstand, did more laundry, ate lunch, cleaned the inside of my car and its windows, swept the driveway (2 blisters – yech!), again with the laundry, talked to on the phone, cut out fabric for a dress, ate dinner, finished up the laundry, put the last coat of white paint on the nightstand, and got all the linens set in the guest bedroom. Oh, and I made up “marinated cucumbers” (blech) and a double batch of granola from the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook. Whew!
In the midst of all that, we went to Target, Home Depot, and a few furniture stores. We finally ended up at Buck’s Unpainted Furniture and ordered two bookshelves, which I should be able to show you in 6-8 weeks.
The nightstand was a major accomplishment (though it is nice to have my car clean for once). I still have the top left, and the drawer, so it’s not done, but I feel good about the progress I made.
I also “read” a dozen library books on beading and jewelry. Those are definitely books you should borrow and not purchase, since there’s not a lot that you would need to keep on hand for reference in them. Oh, and I spent a lot of time emailing back and forth with some Etsy buyers (sold 2 books to Thailand, am in the bargaining/trade process on a third).
Three days of work this week, including one long day tomorrow with class at night. Thursday night I will either be doing homework or making up cinnamon rolls with  . Friday morning I will do one last run-through of the house (vacuum, wipe down bathroom), and then pick up my great-aunt from the bus station. Saturday is ‘s wedding, so that’s pretty much the whole day. Sunday is a family brunch at  ‘s (which the cinnamon rolls are for), and then we will collapse at home. Or finish up that homework and write a paper. Same difference. 
Last night, I re-acquainted myself with our gym. It had been… just over a year since I’d last been, which meant the last time I had been, our closest Snap was different than it is now. This one had totally different machines – I mean, a completely different brand. It had me all confused, as if going to the gym to use the weight machines isn’t awkward enough.
But, you see, I had this revelation a few weeks back that if I wanted my arms to not be flabby, I might actually have to do something with them beyond the daily typing and carrying of purse. (Sadly, those activities are not known to tone and sculpt muscles.) Since the semester is finally winding down, and I will only have one class this summer (only, ha!), I think I might have time now to work out again. is a big help, as he is willing to go with me.
Surprisingly, I was not all that sore this morning. I tried to take it easy on the weights, since I was so out of practice and I didn’t want to be in pain later. I think I may have overtaxed my elbows, but that’s not hard, and nothing that an ice pack can’t fix.
I’ve wrapped up research on my bilingualism paper, which means I need to organize my notes into an outline, and then I can write it up. It’s only 3-4 pages, so most of the research I did will go unused. I mean, 3-4 pages is enough to introduce the subject, say two things about it, and wrap it all up. While I may not be able to wrap my head around the theoretical, philosophical aspects of language (language is symbolism, metacognition, etc), I do now understand the issues surrounding my topic, bilingualism in the deaf community. Granted, I had a decent understanding of this before due to my job, but now I know a lot more.
Also for school, I have one more strategy to find and write up (24 are done), and my lesson plans for my ELL class are drafted but I feel they are lacking. My classmates think I have done too much, however, so I’m leaving them alone for the moment. I have no more reading left, which seems strange. The lesson plans for my literacy class were turned in on Tuesday.
For those of you keeping track, there are already 16 books on my list of 2010 Books Read (see Facebook Visual Bookshelf for the complete list).
There are a bazillion things I’d rather do, but a large portion of the weekend should be spent doing homework. I want to be done (with the semester) – finishing up now will help with that whole “just a weekend between semesters” thing that is killing me. It’s particularly rough to transition from semester to semester like that, since at the end of the semester I want nothing more to do with school, textbooks, classes, goals, assignments, etc., yet the beginning of the semester is full of those things (and staying on top of the homework through proper planning and follow-through is crucial).
That’s life though, right?
At the very least, this weekend includes a trip to Sam’s Club, cheesy tuna helper, a massage, a lawn seminar at Bachman’s, a hair appointment, and going out to dinner. And that only gets us through Saturday.
- What’s your favorite magazine? Ever? I’m not sure, but I do enjoy Real Simple for it’s practicality and usability.
- What book are you currently reading? The Girl Who Heard Dragons, which is a collection of short stories by Anne McCaffrey. Unfortunately, while all the stories have been enjoyable, only one has been part of the Pern series she wrote (that I’ve been reading for the last year).
- What’s the worst book you ever read? The Prince, by Niccolo Machiovelli. I didn’t finish it.
- What makes a book perfect for you? A story line that is engaging and entertaining, and likable characters.
- If you could buy any book right now, which one would it be? I’m looking for the last four from the Pern series that I haven’t read yet, so any of those would be nice (they haven’t been available at Half Price Books that last several times I looked).
Right now, I get about 10 minutes of reading time before going to bed. I’m currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, which I received in a cup of tea and a book swap. It is so weird. It’s like sci-fi plus Jane Austen, set in 1985 England. Very trippy. Still haven’t really figured out what’s going on yet, and I’m in chapter four (generally not a good sign). I’ll finish it (as I almost always do with fiction books), but I’m just not sure of it yet. It has gotten great reviews on Amazon, though, so that’s good. What tripped me up last night: the ending of Jane Eyre in the book is different than it is in reality. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
At any rate, I have been using my library a lot since they re-opened in January after a remodel. I love that I can look for my books online, request them, and then get an email a few days later saying they’re ready. It takes 3 minutes to go to the library, then, since my books are set aside and there are automatic check-out machines (and there’s never a line). I just returned Danielle Steel’s Amazing Grace, which I would have never purchased or even given a second look at. However, one of my fellow bus riders was reading it, and it takes place in San Francisco (always close to my heart), so I gave it a shot. I figured that Steel is quite popular and it was probably worth the time spent. I reviewed it over on livingsocial / Facebook if you’re really interested (which you probably aren’t).
But, on my most recent trip, I actually, gasp, went into the stacks! I had looked up online previously where the subject of books I was looking for was kept, so it was still a pretty quick trip (the selection of books at the individual branches still seems quite small compared to other libraries I’ve been a patron of, but the Dakota County Library system is quite large and has a lot more books – this means that it’s actually better to do the searching online and request books that are available throughout the system instead of limiting yourself to what’s available in your branch). I picked up four books on soapmaking.
I know. You think that’s weird. But here’s the thing. I bought some coconut oil soap on Amazon that my skin loooooved, but I went through it really fast (less than a month), and that was pretty expensive for soap (at $5/bar plus shipping). [In my defense, I'll have you know that my skin had absolutely no itchiness the entire time I was using that soap, and it cleaned really well, and now that I'm back on the regular stuff, my skin is less happy, and less clean - ish.] At the same time that I bought the soap, I also bought some coconut oil. I didn’t realize how much coconut oil I was purchasing (liquid measurements don’t really convert well in my head), and ended up with nearly a gallon of coconut oil. Good thing it has lots of uses and won’t go bad.
I digress. The point is, I had all this oil, and there were only two ingredients on the magic soap bar: coconut oil and lavendar oil. I figured.. what the heck, maybe I could make my own soap at home. And then things got complicated. The internet didn’t really explain it to me, and I was getting confused, and decided that books were needed. Mostly, I needed some clear explanations that would convince me this is a bad idea, and I could just buy the expensive soap and be happy. [I'm really hoping to fall out of like with the idea of making my own soap. Really. I don't need that in my life. But for happy skin....]
So I’ve had these books for a few days, and not a single minute of time to even crack them open. I’d like to read an introductory section at least. Thankfully, after tonight’s class I am on Spring Break for 10 days, and have very little homework to do (though I think I will be doing more than I assigned myself, I don’t have to get anything but one paper done).
In the commments… please try to convince me not to try to make my own soap at home (or, if you like, tell me I should – whatever makes you happy).
My apologies if the blog has been a bit boring lately. I’ve been working on stuff in the background, getting tags and categories cleaned up, links corrected, etc, which is terribly boring, and consequently I haven’t felt motivated to write.
Last night I wrapped up what I could on the messenger bag. I also ordered the webbing I need for the strap, so I can’t do anything else until it arrives. But, the only steps left are to attach the strap, sew the lining to the bag, and then some decorative top-stitching. I can’t figure out what the instructions are telling me to do for attaching the lining, but I’ll figure it out at some point.
I did write a post on Monday, but then decided I couldn’t post it. Bummer.
Let’s see…
I’m reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s (borrowed from the library), which is quite good. Very different from the movie, but in some aspects it’s word for word. Interesting. A short read, too, so if you’re looking for some light reading, I advise picking it up. I’m about 2/3rds done. The best part is that the Prince of Brazil, Jose, has a last name in the book (which isn’t mentioned in the movie) that is fabulous. He’s Brazilian, so his name is Jose Yberra, but his mother was German, so it’s hyphenated, Yberra-Jaeger. Maybe not funny to you, but to me it is.
Apparently the open house went well, with 7 parties passing through, which includes a few sets of neighbors who want to sell their units this year. To them I say, good luck! There was also a showing (during the open house – weird, I know), and they were the only people who might have been interested. Our Realtor thinks we should do another one in a few weeks. I would like to be able to garden in the ground this summer, and it’s not planting season here in Minnesota until Memorial Day, so that might be a possibility, but I’m not making plans.
More fabric arrived at my house last night (I know, I know – but the February budget was blown on, like, the 5th, so I already had a “why not” attitude about it), which was exciting. More short cuts from JCaroline, including a lime and brown stripe that I had designated to be part of a tablecloth and just hadn’t purchased, and now it’s not available anymore, so I had to buy what I could (and I’ll have plenty, enough to make napkins too). So pretty, and now it’s all washed and ironed (but not photographed or folded and put away).
I also cut up the charm squares for the second Mini Quilt in a Bag swap. My partner sent me Sweet, and I had a plan, which I then had to revise when I read that I was supposed to use a bit of every single print. Oops. Good thing I hadn’t cut anything out. So, I spent some time yesterday doing math and charting it all out. I think there will still be some revisions that I need to make, but I haven’t cut all the fabric out yet, so there’s still wiggle room. I’m hoping to get the main “blocks” done this weekend so I can finish calculating the rest of it out. Don’t want to say too much, in case she drops in to take a peek here.
There was also a tiny bit of studying for tomorrow night’s test, which I’m not worried about (10/10 on the last one, and I’m the student in class who answers all the questions). I should have been writing a paper on my interview with an elected official, but all the ones I’ve contacted have ignored me. I think I’m going to have to be a co-worker to introduce me to the city council member she knows, and then beg him to answer the questions via email. I am anxious to get the paper I wrote back tonight, since it will be the first grade in my Historical Interpretation class. I feel like it was a bad paper, though I will probably get a decent grade, but you never know how a professor grades until that first one comes back.
If you’d like to look to the right, I added a little countdown to the end of the semester (aka Countdown to Hammock Time). I am looking forward to that very much. We’re at the point of the semester where I feel like I bit off more than I can chew, am not really interested in any of it, but it’s too late to drop out of any classes without financial and GPA consequences. So, plug on I will. And it will all be good in the end, but it’s a struggle for a bit. (That said, I have had a great deal of free time the last few days, which has been nice. I’m struggling with my online class, in that I’m not particularly fond of the professor at times, and I’ve turned in two papers that weren’t for credit, but for the online discussions he’s given me 20/25. Grades weren’t posted for the first one until after the second one was over, so then I could try to participate more, but obviously not soon enough to change my grade for the second one. It’s really annoying. But, he liked one of my comments on discussion 3 enough to comment on it, which he rarely does. So I feel like I’m all over the board with him.)
Lastly, today is the last day of the half dosage of Wellbutrin I’ve been on for the past 18 months. Tomorrow I start back on the 300 mg, which is very exciting. I have been sleeping better lately anyways, which is nice (there were a few weeks there that I wasn’t sleeping well or much, and that was rough). Plus, Spring Break is in two weeks, so that’s good.
And, to reward you for hanging on so long, here’s a pretty picture for you. These are my new earrings I bought on Etsy. They arrived on Monday, and I promptly wore them yesterday. So springy and cheerful! (She still has a few pair for sale if you hurry.) Her blog is great too – one of my current favorites.
Here’s the list of 25 books I came up with for Multicultural Education. If you remember, the assignment was to pick 25 books that focus on traditionally under-represented populations, and were appropriate for ages 10-18. It gets turned in tonight, so I should know by next week what my professor thinks of the list, but I think I did a good job, considering the breadth of “Social Studies” (ancient history, world history, current events, economics, politics and government, psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology – several of those I skipped, or at least didn’t intentionally pick books that focused on them).
- Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: A Novel. 1994.
- Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel. Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. 2007.
- Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free. 2004.
- Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1990.
- Alternate (not on list, but I had to read it for another class): Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. 1994.
- Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. 1999.
- California Historical Society. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. 2000.
- Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter: Working Women on the Home Front in World War II. 1998.
- Ferriss, Susan. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement. 1998.
- Flood, Josephine. The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People. 2007.
- Freedman, Russell. Children of the Great Depression. 2005.
- Gruzinski, Serge. The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire. 1992.
- Hamermesh, Daniel S. Economics is Everywhere. 2005.
- Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. 2008.
- Kehoe, Alice Beck. America Before the European Invasions. 2002.
- Kerber, Linda K. Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. 2003.
- King Jr, Dr. Martin Luther. Why We Can’t Wait. 2000.
- Le, Samantha. Little Sister Left Behind. 2007.
- Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. 1992.
- Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. 2004.
- Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko. 2004,
- Philip, Neil. The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations. 2006.
- Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multiracial America. 1994.
- Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. 2000.
- Yang, Kao Kalia. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. 2008.
- Zia, Helen. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. 2001.
I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on this list. What did I forget? (Remembering that we weren’t supposed to include traditionally taught or focused on, so yes there’s nothing on Europe or the Cold War, etc. This is meant to be a supplemental list, and just a starting point.) What would you add? Have you read any of the above? Other thoughts?
But I will say that Jane Eyre at the Guthrie was wonderful. It was yet another take on a fantastic story. I’ve watched the BBC miniseries (my favorite), read the original book (not so excellent, but must be appreciated for the beauty that the story is, even if I didn’t care for the writing), and now seen the stage version. All were special in their own way. I thought the miniseries was more true to the book than the stage version, but the modifications for the stage made sense for that medium. I highly suggest seeing it if you have the money and time and opportunity. We got $10 off one of our tickets because of the student discount, and they didn’t even ask to see my ID (though they said they would).
Jane Eyre is a similar story to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, but I think I like the Jane Eyre storyline better. Of course, Jane Austen’s writing is much preferable to Charlotte Bronte’s in my opinion, but that’s just me. I haven’t actually read an Austen book that I didn’t like, though her short stories were insufferable. and I were talking about how authors really are good at one thing and not so much at the others. Austen should have stuck with books. Fitzgerald, on the other hand, should have stuck with short stories (I finally gave up on The Beautiful and the Damned). Other authors we discussed were good at screenplays, first drafts, etc. And yet they all seem to try one of the other formats. Oh well. Just goes to prove that they aren’t complete geniuses, but simply people who are very good at a specific thing, just like the rest of us.
I have a headache this afternoon. The printer broke as I was printing envelopes, and is out of commission until the repair man comes. Tonight is having some friends over, and after dinner I’m going out to buy fabric for the rollerblinds (unless my headache doesn’t go away, in which case I’m going to “take to my bed” like someone in one of Austen’s books) and go to the gym (barring headaches, which are only made worse by going to the gym in my case, though  argues that it’s helpful because it opens up blood passages or something).
Tomorrow we’re going to go get a storage unit and move a bunch of the stuff from our house that is already in “storage” to official storage. That’s the first step before being able to do lots of other things, like painting, fixing the windows, installing carpet, etc. I’ve got a paint color picked out for the spare bedroom (a lovely shade of “linen” I believe), as well as an idea of the fabric for all the rollerblinds. Once that room is clear and the floors are clean (our cleaning lady, aka Grandma, is coming today), I can hem all the curtains with my new machine and then get to work on making pillows out of the leftover fabric. Our kitchen is looking excellent (if you haven’t read my post from yesterday about it, you should, because that was a ton of work!), we have curtains in the downstairs that I love, and I think we’re generally on-track. I decided not to do too much with the furniture refinishing before the move. Everything will get sanded and primed and painted white, but that’s it. I’ll deal with picking accent paper, hardware, etc, including the top coats of shellac that will make them durable, after the move. Often furniture like that gets dinged up in a move anyways, and really all we need to do is have them look presentable. So it’s the bare minimum for them. I’d do more if the list of things to do weren’t so long, but that’s the way it is. There are only 24 hours in a day.
Yesterday I bought an issue of “Everyday” with Rachel Ray, or whatever her magazine is called. Like some others have said, I have a love-hate relationship with the Rayster (I don’t think I can call her “Rach” as she calls herself). I find her completely obnoxious and then suddenly found that I’ve watched (and enjoyed) an entire episode of her show. The magazine I didn’t like at all. I’m bringing it Tuesday to SNB and hope that or can get some use out of it. There weren’t any recipes in it that I wanted to make, except for a reference to Alicia Silverstone’s “Crispy Brown Rice Squares” that I might have to try (but the recipe wasn’t in the magazine – it’s on the website).
Anyways, back to work and attempting to make this headache go away.
Is there a book that you’ve ever picked up to read because either everyone else was reading it, or it was labeled a classic and you felt you had to read it? How did you like the book (or could you even finish it)?
Absolutely. In fact, right now I’m struggling through The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald, in part because everyone loves Fitzgerald, in part because he was a Minnesotan, and in part because I liked his book of short stories. I’m finding his full-length books to be less enjoyable, however. I generally hated every book I was forced to read in school through high school, but many of the ones since then have been decent.
I had unofficially decided who I was voting for in the next Presidential election. Of course, I knew full well it was possible that the candidate I’d selected wouldn’t make it that far. Well, as it turns out, Edwards is dropping out of the race. Now who will I vote for? I’d threaten to move to Canada if McCain is elected (like I did a few years back, though I can’t remember who I was protesting at the time), but I’m not sure I could convince , and living in Canada without him would pretty much suck. I had already decided not to go to my caucus next week, but this was definitely the final nail in the coffin. I have no party loyalty, so the caucus didn’t really tempt me.
Sad. I like none of the other candidates.
Have I noted how cold it is today? We got home last night and the house was 54*! cajoled the furnace into working and we woke up nice and toasty this morning. But it was -14* outside upon leaving for work. I let my car warm up a good long time in the garage before leaving. It will not be happy when I arrive back at the Transit Center tonight and want to use it to get home.
I’ve got about 50 pages left in Darcy and Elizabeth: Days and Nights at Pemberley, and I really want to know how all the ends of the plot lines are going to be wrapped up. I mean, I would sit here at my desk and read until I finished it if I thought I could get away with it. I’ve definitely been enjoying this book. It’s not nearly so much smut as some people think (though it has its share, I think the contrast is in to the original Jane Austen, which is beyond chaste), and I have appreciated how many plot lines there are and the intricacy of the story. I’m wondering if there will be a third book, but I’m not exactly sure what else the author could do with the characters at this point. It may be time for it to end.
It has been painfully dry this winter. We have a humidifier in our bedroom which has helped my sinuses significantly, but my recent skin sensitivity to lotions and soaps has made keeping my skin happy quite difficult. (Most recently, Dove Sensitive Skin shower wash and Eucerin, both hypoallergenic, have been rejected by my skin.) I’ve been alternating between baby oil, baby lotion (which is not that moisturizing), and Eucerin (even though my skin isn’t that happy with it, I have yet to break out in a full-scale rash). Yesterday morning I just didn’t have the time to put anything on, and thought nothing of it. Last night after getting back from the gym, I checked my legs and noticed that not only did I need to shave, I had turned quite amphibious during the day and it was a little painful (that was the polite way of saying my skin was dry and scaly). I attempted to remedy that situation and after showering coated my skin with Eucerin, sensitivities be damned. I avoided showering this morning and put on another coat. I decided that little red bumps and even an itchy patch or two would be worth it and probably healthier for my skin than for it to be that dry. My hands and cuticles have cracks and so forth all over. Papercuts are dangerous in this weather, in that they could easily turn into something much worse that won’t heal until spring. [Author pauses to put on Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream.] has it much worse, however, since she has to wash her hands about a billion times each shift she works.
A coffee break is calling out to me. It’s really more of a hot cocoa day, but I think I’ll get coffee anyways.
Last album/CD/mp3 listened to: my iPod says… that my last song was “Don’t Tell Me” by Avril Lavigne. It’s on shuffle.
Last book read: Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children
Last food eaten: Glazed donut from Holiday
Last beverage drunk: French vanilla cappuccino from Holiday
Last movie watched: Um… I’m not sure. Maybe can help me out with this in the comments? Of course, that could be difficult since he’s having problems accessing this blog right now.
Last item bought: Sour Patch Kids to munch on while doing homework
“Here (in the extended entry) is a little summer reading list. Bold what you’ve read, italicize those you’ve started and not finished, add three of your own to the end, and post.”
, you might like this, since you were talking about reading some more classic books… perhaps a place to start?
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- 1984, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Perfume, Patrick Susskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
- Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
- The Beach, Alex Garland
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
- The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
- Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
- The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
- The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
- The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
- Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
- The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
- Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Shogun, James Clavell
- The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
- Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
- House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
- Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Possession, A. S. Byatt
- The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
- East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
- Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
- Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
- Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
- It, Stephen King
- James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
- The Green Mile, Stephen King
- Papillon, Henri Charriere
- Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
- Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
- Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
- Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
- Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
- The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
- One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
- Moby **** , Herman Melville
- River God, Wilbur Smith
- Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
- The World According To Garp, John Irving
- Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
- Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
- The Witches, Roald Dahl
- Charlottes Web, E. B. White
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
- The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
- Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
- Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
- The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
- The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
- Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
- Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
- Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
- The Truth, Terry Pratchett
- The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
- The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
- The Once And Future King, T. H. White
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
- Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
- The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
- The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
- The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
- Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
- Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
- Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
- A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
- Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
- A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
- As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
- Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
- The Married Man, Edmund White
- Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
- The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
- Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
- Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell – You know, I kept reading the title and thinking it was about Unicorns, which made for a much more interesting book.
- Equus, Peter Shaffer
- The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
- Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
- The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
- Anthem, Ayn Rand
- The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
- Tartuffe, Moliere
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
- Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
- A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
- Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
- ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
- Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
- Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
- Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
- Summerland, Michael Chabon
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- Candide, Voltaire
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
- Ringworld, Larry Niven
- The King Must Die, Mary Renault
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
- The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
- The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
- Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
- Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
- The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
- Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
- Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
- Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
- The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
- A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
- Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
- Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
- Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
- Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
- Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
- The Cay, Theodore Taylor
- From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
- The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
- The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
- Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
- Wicked, Gregory Maguire
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
- The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
- Haunted, Judith St. George
- Singularity, William Sleator
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- Different Seasons, Stephen King
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
- About a Boy, Nick Hornby
- The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
- The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
- Illusions, Richard Bach
- Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
- Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
- Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
- Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
- The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. (I tried, in college, for a class, but never made it through, and ended up dropping the class)
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
- Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
- Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
- The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
- The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
- Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
- Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
- Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
- Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
- A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
- Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
- The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
- Beowulf, Anonymous
- The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
- Deerskin, Robin McKinley
- Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
- Passage, Connie Willis
- Otherland, Tad Williams
- Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
- Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
- The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
- Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
- Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
- The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
- The Genesis Code, John Case
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Phantom, Susan Kay
- The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
- Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
- The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
- Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
- The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
- The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
- My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
- The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
- At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
- The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
- Sati, Christopher Pike
- The Inferno, Dante
- The Apology, Plato
- The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
- 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
- The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Our Town, Thorton Wilder
- Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
- The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
- The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
- The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
- Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
- The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
- Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones – I saw the animated version, I’m guessing that doesn’t count
- Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
- Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
- Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
- The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
- Time for Bed by David Baddiel
- Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
- The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
- Jhereg by Steven Brust
- So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
- Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
- Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
- The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
- The Gunslinger, Stephen King
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
- A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
- Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
- The God Boy, Ian Cross
- The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
- Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
- Misery, Stephen King
- Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
- Hood, Emma Donoghue
- The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Regeneration, Pat Barker
- Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald. On my bookshelf waiting to be read.
- Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
- Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
- A Severed Wasp – Madeleine LEngle
- Here Be Dragons – Sharon Kay Penman
- The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) – translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
- The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown. Also on my bookshelf waiting to be read.
- Desire of the Everlasting Hills – Thomas Cahill
- The Cloister Walk – Kathleen Norris
- The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
- I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
- Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
- The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
- The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
- The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
- The Jester, James Patterson
- Cry the beloved Country, Alan Paton
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Deathscent, Robin Jarvis
- Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
- My legendary girlfriend, Mike Gayle
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Phillip K Dick
- Bored of the Rings – Harvard Lampoon -I didn’t know this existed, but I might find it funny.
- The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
- Schild’s Ladder – Greg Egan
- Excession – Iain M. Banks
- One For The Morning Glory – John Barnes
- The Manchurian Candidate – Richard Condon
- A Death in the Family – James Agee
- Fup – Jim Dodge
- Girl Soldier by Faith J H McDonnell and Grace Akallo – I’m about a third of the way through and it’s fantastic
- We Could Almost Eat Outside by Philippe Delerm and Sarah Hamp – about halfway through, but you can only read a page or two at a time. Doesn’t really excuse the year-plus that I’ve been reading it.
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – one of the Austen books not on the list already, but I think it’s the best one.
Looks like I have a lot of reading to do, if I actually wanted to accomplish this list. I don’t, however. But good to know if I ever make it through my collection of books, there’s plenty more out there.
I have a co-worker who’s getting married next weekend. He’s done this before, and as is stereotypical of most men, hasn’t been too vocal or stressed about his pending nuptials. Well, he’s leaving for the day, and I overheard this conversation:
Groom: See you Monday! Have a good weekend!
Co-Worker: Yeah. Hey, last weekend of freedom! Haha
Groom: Yeah. After this, life will be much more enjoyable.
Bet you didn’t see that one coming, did ya.
Now, I have no doubt that there are many men out there who think that very thought (or at least did at some point, since they shelled out some cash for a ring and proposed and thought it would be a good idea to be married). But how many times do you hear something so honest, especially at work, instead of the usual jesting about the ole ball-n-chain or a lifetime sentence or whatever.
In other news, yes, I am very glad that it’s Friday. Maybe not so much “glad” as “relieved.” You see, on Wednesday I could have sworn it was Friday. Yesterday too. So by today I feel like it has been a very, very long week. And I am much relieved that today actually is Friday.
For those of you who cared, I did almost no packing this week. And very little wedding planning (except for that whole hair thing). Why? Well, quite frankly, there’s not much to be done. And I was a little tired. I got the things on my list done, but they were kind of minor things. I cleaned off my bedside table and another side table so that they’d be ready to move. I have an ever-growing pile for Goodwill. We’re taking some things to ‘s this weekend so the stacks of boxes in ‘s spare bedroom will decrease. I went through the stuff on the last table in my room (that’s three tables, if you’re counting) and got the box of reception decorations all set to go. But that was kinda it.
And I keep having these thoughts like, oh, I’m going to need to go to Goodwill, I should email and and see who might want to go, or I need to go to a different Macys that has a bigger selection to buy this thing, and I should see who would like to take me, and then realizing that, unless things go horribly wrong with someone’s Visa to Korea, I’ll have a car next week and won’t need someone to go with me (not that I wouldn’t want someone to come with if they desired). It’s a whole mindset change I’m not really into yet. I have had some positive thoughts this week regarding my future car, like Wednesday night when I was hungry but it was too late to find food anywhere that was accessible to me, and I knew that if I had a car I could have gone to Cub which is open 24 hours. Or last night when I ran out of yarn for a hat I’m attempting (why, I’m not sure, because I’m guessing it’s going to look laughable on me and I’ll just have to give it away) and thought that it would be silly to spend an hour in transit on the bus to and from WalMart for a $1.50 ball of yarn.
Last night I was good to myself, to make up for Wednesday when I was apparently feeling that I needed to be mean to me. So I went grocery shopping. And then I made (and ate) dinner. And took a book and some crochet out onto my deck and sat in my hammock for about an hour until the sun disappeared. And when I got hungry, I ate again. I supplied myself with the chocolate of which my house had been completely devoid. I went to bed before midnight, and fell asleep quickly. So no more grouchiness today. (I’m sure is thrilled to hear that.)
Crap. I just realized I forgot to feed  . Must go email  .
- Voyage :: of the Dawn Treader
- Patricia ::
- Transformation :: butterfly
- Vocabulary :: large
- San Francisco:: good times
- Edward :: Scissorhands
- Sawyer :: Brown
- Literary :: Target
- Tiger :: Lion
- Seal :: Cub
- Happen :: -ed one night
- Terribly :: lonely (I’m not, btw)
- History :: Channel
- Master :: and Commander
- Petrified :: Wood
- Moan :: Sigh
- Attack :: from Outer Space
- Picture :: Book
- Students :: Running Amok
- Potter :: Harry
Last night I did homework from 6:30-12:30, and I didn’t even get my paper written (I did do the research for it, however, and decided that I wasn’t in the mood to write it, and it’s not due until Tuesday, so it’s all good). I didn’t get laundry done either. And there’s a growing pile of papers near my chair/window that is gonna be declared a hazard zone soon.
Since I got my new computer at work, I’ve been busy, busy, busy. I think I’m mostly set up the way I want to be, though. I managed to bring over the extensions I wanted for Firefox, and sync my bookmarks, which was the last step. I’m back in business!
Can I get an extra day in my week or weekend somehow? Or a few hours to sleep?  is in town this weekend, so I get to see  on Saturday, and I hope and I will have time otherwise to go take a walk outside, since the weather is supposed to be so nice. But I also have a chunk of homework, and it’s that point in the semester where slacking, even a day or two, really can’t happen. There’s too much to do and very little time left, so no getting behind schedule now. I also need to find the time to re-design the website that I was already paid for, and and I need to put a website out their for our upcoming nuptials and register and…. You get the idea. I will be quite happy when the semester is over – I may be too exhausted to celebrate, but I’ll have happy dreams.
The wonderment word of the day? Connubial. It’s a Jane Austen-esque word. I’ve been reading (well, not this week) Mr Darcy Takes a Wife, which is about 400% more racy than I expected it to be. Good, nonetheless. Anyways, connubial is used a lot.
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