I'm looking on Amazon right now. What are egg cups used for?
Please help.
29.11.07
It's freezing
I'm in Minnesota. When people ask how I am, I simply chatter my teeth and make a "brrrrrr" noise. In the midst of making said brrrr noises tonight, I left work early (with authorization to do so) and went to the gym. Where I ran a 5k. After not running for two months. Seriously. There are no other words.
While you're contemplating how apparently good physical condition the rest of the gym can sustain, consider these sites as well:
While you're contemplating how apparently good physical condition the rest of the gym can sustain, consider these sites as well:
- I know one person who could actually get away with this. I have a feeling that if she hasn't considered this before, she's doing so now.
- How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?. This will be much harder for me than that great President's Game although Kelly and Eric may be fantastic at this one.
- Brain Teasers for the Rest of Us.
- I recently noted to someone that their captcha on their blog was ahem less than rigorous. Might I suggest some of these. Some of these are rude and some of them are not safe for work.
27.11.07
Ground turkey is my new favorite ingredient. Yum.
I just cooked Apple Turkey Picadillo and it is great. I used cucumbers instead of tomatoes for those of you afflicted with issues similar to my own. Because of the way I could be ground turkey, I made a double recipe. I'm glad I did too.
I have all these pages bookmarked to share with you because I haven't done it in so long.
How is a Ginkgo Tree Like a Discarded Computer? While that may be the point of this article, the gem comes when they describe the ginkgo fruit. It's just art.
You're Not Attractive, a great article about how ugly people mate. No, seriously, it's a statistical look at who dates who and why. It's quite fascinating and totally safe for work.
You Call That Healthy? A great look at food that should be healthy but aren't. Is there really anyone who does like the fruit on the bottom yogurt. Bleh.
The essence of human nature a great comic. I so feel these people's pain. And I could totally juggle a machete any time.
Kelly, I have "I'll Fly Away" by Jars of Clay stuck in my head. I blame you since you gave me access to this music to begin with. But it's a really good song.
Also for Kelly, The Germiest Places in America or, the grossest places in your house. Bonus points to anyone who can tell my what #7 and #9 are because they appear to be missing from the slide show.
America's Most Obese Cities. They're all south of the mason dixon line. Well, almost all of them. I'm just saying. Baltimore has got to be pretty close there. Detroit I have no explanation. Cincinnati I can say from experience is culturally south of the IHOP - Waffle House line.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life. Number 3 is really important, but don't get too attached to routines either. That way if they get screwed up it's not a major crisis.
A related item how to know if your driver has OCD. I can related to the "parking the car in the lines thing". The vents only need to be even if they're not in use, I'm the passenger, and I'm bored. Otherwise I can deal. I cannot relate to the other stuff. But I was afraid to step on cracks as a kid in deference to my mother's vertebrae.
It's almost 11:00 and I still haven't finished with the turkey. But it's so good. Mmmm. I can't wait for lunch tomorrow just to eat this again.
I have all these pages bookmarked to share with you because I haven't done it in so long.
How is a Ginkgo Tree Like a Discarded Computer? While that may be the point of this article, the gem comes when they describe the ginkgo fruit. It's just art.
You're Not Attractive, a great article about how ugly people mate. No, seriously, it's a statistical look at who dates who and why. It's quite fascinating and totally safe for work.
You Call That Healthy? A great look at food that should be healthy but aren't. Is there really anyone who does like the fruit on the bottom yogurt. Bleh.
The essence of human nature a great comic. I so feel these people's pain. And I could totally juggle a machete any time.
Kelly, I have "I'll Fly Away" by Jars of Clay stuck in my head. I blame you since you gave me access to this music to begin with. But it's a really good song.
Also for Kelly, The Germiest Places in America or, the grossest places in your house. Bonus points to anyone who can tell my what #7 and #9 are because they appear to be missing from the slide show.
America's Most Obese Cities. They're all south of the mason dixon line. Well, almost all of them. I'm just saying. Baltimore has got to be pretty close there. Detroit I have no explanation. Cincinnati I can say from experience is culturally south of the IHOP - Waffle House line.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life.
Organizing Tips from the Obsessive Compulsive Person in Your Life. Number 3 is really important, but don't get too attached to routines either. That way if they get screwed up it's not a major crisis.
A related item how to know if your driver has OCD. I can related to the "parking the car in the lines thing". The vents only need to be even if they're not in use, I'm the passenger, and I'm bored. Otherwise I can deal. I cannot relate to the other stuff. But I was afraid to step on cracks as a kid in deference to my mother's vertebrae.
It's almost 11:00 and I still haven't finished with the turkey. But it's so good. Mmmm. I can't wait for lunch tomorrow just to eat this again.
Greetings from the lost blog
It occurs to me that I have neglected my blog for a while. I missed you all. And now I have great stories to tell. Well, now I'm back. What have I been up to? Well...
Exercising at the Y: This has become a whole new thing since the weather got colder. The Y is packed in the evening which pretty much forces me to go in the morning. Except today I went at night for reasons I'll get to later.
Christmas Shopping: I've done some of this in person (a blouse that Mom picked out and I bought for her) and am planning to do even more of it online for this, and this for my Dad, and I need to find cute jammies for my other parent. Kelly, I know you do a lot of shopping online. We're going for flannel pants, cute top with at least some buttons so it can be removed easily while curlers are present. Lemme know if you see anything I should consider. Some friends are shopped for, and one of them I have no idea at all what I'm getting despite numerous attempts at support from another friend. I already got Mom the bag I blogged about, and Dad I got Eating Well again. And I have to buy one gift for someone at work, have no idea on that one either. That one can only be $10. I also went to Breadsmith to get a Thank You gift certificate for the lady who took me to the airport and watched my car while I was gone. Why this place? It's kosher. I bet you didn't know that. Points to anyone besides Amanda (who worked at Sholom Home) who knows what Kosher is. It's also parve. Double bonus points if you know what parve is.
Traveling: I have spent some quality time in airplanes and airports this week. Luckily travel was quite smooth. Other than the landing in Cincinnati which was literally not smooth. I kept looking out the plane window and I couldn't see lights or roads or anything. And then I could and I realized we were really low, and then it all went away again and was dark. There's not that much farm land before the airport that there shouldn't be any lights. It was fog. At night. And you've got to ask yourself, "if I can't see the ground and we're this close to it, can the pilot really see the runway?" I know from a previous experience (where we tried to land and the pilot pulled up at the last second because he couldn't find the runway) that they use lasers in these situations. So I sat calmly in my seat and figured surely they won't even try it without the lasers when it's this bad. And they didn't. But I was happy to be on the ground.
Time at the aunt's and cousin's houses in Indiana was great. The barn which had been an active horse barn is now converted to a tractor museum and what had been the loft is now a bar and movie theater. With blu-ray discs, the seats shake. I kid you not. Eric, does this change how you feel about the great blu-ray / HD / whatever the formats are debate? Your butt could be shaking right along with the bass in the movie. I had a great time with my aunts and my Mom. And another cousin brought his four (3 step and 1 biological) kids over. They all call him "Dad" so I consider them his kids. They're a fun bunch too.
In Cincinnati I saw Jenny and Doug, the newly engaged couple for whom I was trying on a wedding dress a while ago, and another friend Tony. Tony is the one I thought of the moment I heard the Star Wars exhibit is coming to St. Paul. A brief story about Tony: I had a serious crush on him forever and I was slightly madder than hell when he married another girl who I knew. I was never really a fan of that relationship for what I think are still good reasons. So Jenny and Doug and Tony and I went out while I was home. It sounds like Tony's relationship with wife is not going so well. I feel slightly vindicated. Is that wrong?
Having a sinus/ear/something-is-not-right problem while traveling. On a plane. Yes, that's right. Something is wrong with my body involving congestion and pressure in my ears and sinuses. And I got to fly home that way. I had many drugs in me. And then I slept with a humidifier with some amount of vinegar in it which I've read helps a sore throat and sinus issues. And I'm doing mildly better. I was so tired last night that I slept late today. Which is why I was at the Y tonight.
Have I mentioned the scale recalibration issue? I just checked, apparently not. After I fit into that smaller than expected size dress and so had unreasonably high self esteem I get to the Y and see a sign reading "We have recalibrated the scale. It is now displaying the correct weight. We apologize for any shock this may cause" and there was a five to seven pound difference. Not in the good way. Although it may be a blessing because it may be the only thing that actually makes me start running again. I've been thinking I've been missing it. It's time to get started again.
Dealing with wild things at work: I swear there is a full moon. I worked over nine hours today. That's all I'll say on this matter.
Exercising at the Y: This has become a whole new thing since the weather got colder. The Y is packed in the evening which pretty much forces me to go in the morning. Except today I went at night for reasons I'll get to later.
Christmas Shopping: I've done some of this in person (a blouse that Mom picked out and I bought for her) and am planning to do even more of it online for this, and this for my Dad, and I need to find cute jammies for my other parent. Kelly, I know you do a lot of shopping online. We're going for flannel pants, cute top with at least some buttons so it can be removed easily while curlers are present. Lemme know if you see anything I should consider. Some friends are shopped for, and one of them I have no idea at all what I'm getting despite numerous attempts at support from another friend. I already got Mom the bag I blogged about, and Dad I got Eating Well again. And I have to buy one gift for someone at work, have no idea on that one either. That one can only be $10. I also went to Breadsmith to get a Thank You gift certificate for the lady who took me to the airport and watched my car while I was gone. Why this place? It's kosher. I bet you didn't know that. Points to anyone besides Amanda (who worked at Sholom Home) who knows what Kosher is. It's also parve. Double bonus points if you know what parve is.
Traveling: I have spent some quality time in airplanes and airports this week. Luckily travel was quite smooth. Other than the landing in Cincinnati which was literally not smooth. I kept looking out the plane window and I couldn't see lights or roads or anything. And then I could and I realized we were really low, and then it all went away again and was dark. There's not that much farm land before the airport that there shouldn't be any lights. It was fog. At night. And you've got to ask yourself, "if I can't see the ground and we're this close to it, can the pilot really see the runway?" I know from a previous experience (where we tried to land and the pilot pulled up at the last second because he couldn't find the runway) that they use lasers in these situations. So I sat calmly in my seat and figured surely they won't even try it without the lasers when it's this bad. And they didn't. But I was happy to be on the ground.
Time at the aunt's and cousin's houses in Indiana was great. The barn which had been an active horse barn is now converted to a tractor museum and what had been the loft is now a bar and movie theater. With blu-ray discs, the seats shake. I kid you not. Eric, does this change how you feel about the great blu-ray / HD / whatever the formats are debate? Your butt could be shaking right along with the bass in the movie. I had a great time with my aunts and my Mom. And another cousin brought his four (3 step and 1 biological) kids over. They all call him "Dad" so I consider them his kids. They're a fun bunch too.
In Cincinnati I saw Jenny and Doug, the newly engaged couple for whom I was trying on a wedding dress a while ago, and another friend Tony. Tony is the one I thought of the moment I heard the Star Wars exhibit is coming to St. Paul. A brief story about Tony: I had a serious crush on him forever and I was slightly madder than hell when he married another girl who I knew. I was never really a fan of that relationship for what I think are still good reasons. So Jenny and Doug and Tony and I went out while I was home. It sounds like Tony's relationship with wife is not going so well. I feel slightly vindicated. Is that wrong?
Having a sinus/ear/something-is-not-right problem while traveling. On a plane. Yes, that's right. Something is wrong with my body involving congestion and pressure in my ears and sinuses. And I got to fly home that way. I had many drugs in me. And then I slept with a humidifier with some amount of vinegar in it which I've read helps a sore throat and sinus issues. And I'm doing mildly better. I was so tired last night that I slept late today. Which is why I was at the Y tonight.
Have I mentioned the scale recalibration issue? I just checked, apparently not. After I fit into that smaller than expected size dress and so had unreasonably high self esteem I get to the Y and see a sign reading "We have recalibrated the scale. It is now displaying the correct weight. We apologize for any shock this may cause" and there was a five to seven pound difference. Not in the good way. Although it may be a blessing because it may be the only thing that actually makes me start running again. I've been thinking I've been missing it. It's time to get started again.
Dealing with wild things at work: I swear there is a full moon. I worked over nine hours today. That's all I'll say on this matter.
18.11.07
So I had this dream...
I had this dream, and I called Amanda to tell her about it, among other things. That's when she said, "I'm going to get Chinese food. Want to come over..." And that's why I'm sitting here writing an entry at 1:40 in the morning. Good thing I don't have to work tomorrow. I mostly hung out today. Other than trying on the dress I did hardly anything noteworthy.
Except, I've had these sites bookmarked for a while, so I should share them with you:
Except, I've had these sites bookmarked for a while, so I should share them with you:
- Another great apple ad safe for work but it does have sound. I linked to the digg page because the comments are worth a look as well.
- 10 Classic Psychology Experiments for my friend Amanda who is learning all about Abnormal psychology right now.
- the 1985 Christmas wish list. The only thing I owned were the pound puppies. Those are old school. I think I had some transformers somewhere. And I only ever made it to the box of 64 crayons. Although, I have a feeling those last eight colors would have made a world of difference in my artistic prowess
- More news about a Delta merger. Where does United fly? I've never lived in one of their hub cities. Guess the strib was wrong when they predicted Delta and Northwest. Woops.
- I just watched an Oprah show about clutter. When they do it on Clean House it's cute and funny. This show was quite sobering. It really allowed me to see hoarding as the horrible sickness that it is.
- 5 Food Rules to Break. I'd like to address your attention to the "In Defense of Butter" section which appears to be a footnote. Surely an oversight as it's the most important piece of the whole article.
- How not to use Powerpoint. Both hilarious and helpful.
17.11.07
I think I need to eat...
But before I do... I don't know what possessed me to start drawing again. I'd been thinking about it every once in a while for a long time. But today, I actually picked up a pencil and started drawing again. I used to love to draw and then I went to an art school. It was never the same for me after that. Maybe that's why I like painting my rooms so much. I think that's the reason I like to take so many pictures. It's like a faster way to capture images than drawing. All the better for the ADD.
By the way, this morning I had to go to the store to try on this dress. So the girl said "what size are you?" and I said, "I'm normally between x and y" which was a fairly big range. So she brings me the smallest size I had mentioned. To be clear, I have like two things this size, and that's normally sized clothes, not the ones in the bridal shops. And it freakin fit. Not a perfect fit, I think I'd go a size bigger just so I can be comfortable but seriously, getting into that size at a bridal shop is like getting into a size 6 in normal life. I think that's what finally inspired me to draw. The dress looked really nice by the way, the color and the style.
I drew the picture based on this photo.
By the way, this morning I had to go to the store to try on this dress. So the girl said "what size are you?" and I said, "I'm normally between x and y" which was a fairly big range. So she brings me the smallest size I had mentioned. To be clear, I have like two things this size, and that's normally sized clothes, not the ones in the bridal shops. And it freakin fit. Not a perfect fit, I think I'd go a size bigger just so I can be comfortable but seriously, getting into that size at a bridal shop is like getting into a size 6 in normal life. I think that's what finally inspired me to draw. The dress looked really nice by the way, the color and the style.
14.11.07
Digg is down so I'll find other ways to entertain myself.
First off, The Wednesday Mind Hump:
Name five things that are in your refrigerator and/or freezer right now.
1. Wheat berries
2. Green lentils
3. Veggie brother
4. Carrots
5. Red chard
Why yes, I am making soup. And yes, one of the people eating it is a vegetarian, hence the veggie broth.
And, in honor of yesterday, Ten on Tuesday
Ten Songs That Bring Back Memories (and why):
1. Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin. It was one of my favorite songs to play when I lived in Africa. All the little kids in my family would come and dance to it.
2. Hallelujiah by Rufus Wainright. Similar reason. Also, "Hallelujah" is the same word in Chichewa so my family knew it and they liked the song too. That's really a cover of a Leonard Cohen song.
3. Anything from the Throwing Copper album. I had that album like way before Live was popular in Cincinnati. (They were probably already popular in every other part of the world, but things happen slowly where I'm from.) So I was always playing it when my friends were around.
4. Forever young by Rod Stewart was one I listened to a lot the first time I left the country.
5. Born to Fly. Reminds me of Kelly. And that church too, because we would sing it there. Ok, yeah, I'm free associating.
6. The Capitol Steps remind me of the time I did Presidential Classroom in high school. That was a good time.
7. A Night in Tunisia most commonly by Dizzy Gilespie reminds me of Jazz Band in high school.
8. The Star Wars and Mission Impossible themes remind me of the band I was in during high school Latex Penguin. How funny is it that their web page is still up? I was in it right in the beginning when we won the Battle of the Bands in Cincinnati. I'm one of the guitarist who got "kicked out" if you can find that on the web page. Really it was for the best. I had a great time being part of the band. There's also "Take it off him" and "Lucretia McEvil"... Man, this might be a whole different post.
9. The Electric Slide because it makes me think of Chris.
10. American Patrol because it reminds me of when I played the saxophone. It was my favorite piece for a while, and it was my audition song for when I went to that art high school. That didn't last long.
Name five things that are in your refrigerator and/or freezer right now.
1. Wheat berries
2. Green lentils
3. Veggie brother
4. Carrots
5. Red chard
Why yes, I am making soup. And yes, one of the people eating it is a vegetarian, hence the veggie broth.
And, in honor of yesterday, Ten on Tuesday
Ten Songs That Bring Back Memories (and why):
1. Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin. It was one of my favorite songs to play when I lived in Africa. All the little kids in my family would come and dance to it.
2. Hallelujiah by Rufus Wainright. Similar reason. Also, "Hallelujah" is the same word in Chichewa so my family knew it and they liked the song too. That's really a cover of a Leonard Cohen song.
3. Anything from the Throwing Copper album. I had that album like way before Live was popular in Cincinnati. (They were probably already popular in every other part of the world, but things happen slowly where I'm from.) So I was always playing it when my friends were around.
4. Forever young by Rod Stewart was one I listened to a lot the first time I left the country.
5. Born to Fly. Reminds me of Kelly. And that church too, because we would sing it there. Ok, yeah, I'm free associating.
6. The Capitol Steps remind me of the time I did Presidential Classroom in high school. That was a good time.
7. A Night in Tunisia most commonly by Dizzy Gilespie reminds me of Jazz Band in high school.
8. The Star Wars and Mission Impossible themes remind me of the band I was in during high school Latex Penguin. How funny is it that their web page is still up? I was in it right in the beginning when we won the Battle of the Bands in Cincinnati. I'm one of the guitarist who got "kicked out" if you can find that on the web page. Really it was for the best. I had a great time being part of the band. There's also "Take it off him" and "Lucretia McEvil"... Man, this might be a whole different post.
9. The Electric Slide because it makes me think of Chris.
10. American Patrol because it reminds me of when I played the saxophone. It was my favorite piece for a while, and it was my audition song for when I went to that art high school. That didn't last long.
13.11.07
The sandman is calling me
The sandman is calling. No one knows why I'm not actually sleeping yet. It all started when I was cleaning. And then I didn't stop. But my condo is really clean. And then I realized I didn't have some mp3's of songs transfered to this computer. I know. Still. So then I got into that. Plus I had to pluck my eyebrows. That hadn't been done for a while. And I didn't have my contacts in. It was like a comedy of errors.
And while importing mp3s (from CDs people) to this computer, I was reminded of the Capitol Steps, and how much I enjoy their music. Hee hee.
And while importing mp3s (from CDs people) to this computer, I was reminded of the Capitol Steps, and how much I enjoy their music. Hee hee.
12.11.07
All the stuff I've wanted to post lately but haven't gotten around to it
A situation eerily similar to this one that I commented on was just one of the sparks that led to the explosion I just blogged about. Maybe I'm still going to hell, just not as far down.
100 Ways to Save the Environment. How many do you do? And can you see the irony of item 29 and item 17 being on the same list? I know Amanda can because we've already had this discussion. Amanda, since you know that, please take note of item 67, and let me know what I can do to support you in that. My strength: item 96. Although that resulted from me cleaning out my pantry and discovering the true extent of my paper and plastic bag surplus.
Almost how I felt today although this is funnier.
Another fascinating article about how we think about death.
More proof that democrats eat their young. Yours too if they could. Instead, they'll just refuse to educate them.
What Goes Wrong the ADHD Brain. More good news for me. No, this actually is.
Airlines Call for a Fat Tax. As always I'm linking to the Digg page on this. The thing the diggers fail to mention is this is an Australian article and not directed at airlines in the US. I love the guy's story about paying extra for golf clubs when another passenger weighed more than all his luggage together. I think it brings up the point that the airlines could just have a weight limit. Get on the scale with the luggage. Anything over that weight limit is extra. Hee hee. Oh. I can just see it now. Give the two-year-old two 150lb suit cases. Hee hee. She'd still be under the weight limit. Ok, maybe that's not the best plan. Hee hee. I crack myself up sometimes.
While I was writing and earlier post, I typed the word "patheticness" which Firefox did not appreciate. So I googled it to see if I spelled it right or if I had added a word to the English language. That search came back inconclusive. But it did turn up the website iWorkWithFools.com. Oh dear.
Also, Kelly, your blog is red. I was really surprised when I opened your blog to see the color of my curtains. I thought, "I would blame that on Amanda if I thought she knew how to change Kelly's blog theme". I'll be rooting for you during the statewide conference this week. Hope it goes well.
And finally tonight, I got a few pictures printed. Some were to a cousin's kid because it's his birthday soon or something. I have to mail those tomorrow. And some were 8x10s for my own purposes. And the 8x10s turned out really good. I wish I was at the point in my decorating that I could hang things up in my room. I'm still waiting for the wall to be all torn out and put back together. I guess I could just practice.
Also, could I do something like this in the walls in my entry way? Mostly I'm thinking about the wall between my living room and hallway. The one that's not very big and the table is on the other side of it. Incidentally, that's the one that looks only slightly better than in these pictures.
100 Ways to Save the Environment. How many do you do? And can you see the irony of item 29 and item 17 being on the same list? I know Amanda can because we've already had this discussion. Amanda, since you know that, please take note of item 67, and let me know what I can do to support you in that. My strength: item 96. Although that resulted from me cleaning out my pantry and discovering the true extent of my paper and plastic bag surplus.
Almost how I felt today although this is funnier.
Another fascinating article about how we think about death.
More proof that democrats eat their young. Yours too if they could. Instead, they'll just refuse to educate them.
What Goes Wrong the ADHD Brain. More good news for me. No, this actually is.
Airlines Call for a Fat Tax. As always I'm linking to the Digg page on this. The thing the diggers fail to mention is this is an Australian article and not directed at airlines in the US. I love the guy's story about paying extra for golf clubs when another passenger weighed more than all his luggage together. I think it brings up the point that the airlines could just have a weight limit. Get on the scale with the luggage. Anything over that weight limit is extra. Hee hee. Oh. I can just see it now. Give the two-year-old two 150lb suit cases. Hee hee. She'd still be under the weight limit. Ok, maybe that's not the best plan. Hee hee. I crack myself up sometimes.
While I was writing and earlier post, I typed the word "patheticness" which Firefox did not appreciate. So I googled it to see if I spelled it right or if I had added a word to the English language. That search came back inconclusive. But it did turn up the website iWorkWithFools.com. Oh dear.
Also, Kelly, your blog is red. I was really surprised when I opened your blog to see the color of my curtains. I thought, "I would blame that on Amanda if I thought she knew how to change Kelly's blog theme". I'll be rooting for you during the statewide conference this week. Hope it goes well.
And finally tonight, I got a few pictures printed. Some were to a cousin's kid because it's his birthday soon or something. I have to mail those tomorrow. And some were 8x10s for my own purposes. And the 8x10s turned out really good. I wish I was at the point in my decorating that I could hang things up in my room. I'm still waiting for the wall to be all torn out and put back together. I guess I could just practice.
Also, could I do something like this in the walls in my entry way? Mostly I'm thinking about the wall between my living room and hallway. The one that's not very big and the table is on the other side of it. Incidentally, that's the one that looks only slightly better than in these pictures.
Why I'm going to hell. Besides the usual reasons
I had an interesting exchange at work today. It pointed out all the reasons I'm going to hell. Can you have remorse without guilt?
I was asking my co-workers about the culture up here regarding Martin Luther King Day. In the discussion a native Minnesotan colleague mildly excused agencies and places of business up here that do not take the day off. And then asked me if I celebrated Black History Month. I did not even tried to hide the eye roll. I pointed out that one is a month, (not unlike Breast Cancer Awareness Month or National Family Caregiver Awareness Month) and that Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday.
And the co-worker went off. Went off on me. Boom. And I just sat there and let her. And the more upset she got, the more I got into my own head. I was sitting there thinking about how to diffuse the situation without really feeling any emotions at all. Something that I learned in social work school is that only one person can be in affect, (means emotions) at one time, and everyone else goes into the cognitive (means thinking) state. It's really true.
The point the person was trying to make is that I treat her like she's stupid. And I got more and more into my own head (and here's the part where I'm really going to hell) listening to her cite examples of what she felt were inferior intelligence in herself. While she was going off on me. For making her feel stupid. And I was really able to see the ridiculousness and patheticness of a person sitting in front of me saying "here's all the reasons I could be stupid, don't make me feel stupid".
Still inside my own head. Showing no emotion at all. Saying, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way" and "I apologize" and she kept going and going. Giving more examples. And then she said "I'm older than you" as another reason she was smart. I still had no visible emotion but that is the one thing I remembered later. I remember someone saying once, "if you have to tell someone you're an adult, you're not". I take crap all the time because of my age in my job. And so do this person, I know she does. Apparently the age thing is pissing me off. I remember another friend saying that she was two years older (and therefore wiser) and I remember being younger but understanding why she was wrong. (It's not anyone reading this blog.)
So anyways, you know, I never really got too much into my own emotions about the whole thing. I apologized right away and didn't make any excuses. But I also didn't really consider too much about how I felt about the situation. Like, do I feel bad? It was a very intellectual exercise in social work to get out of that conversation. Also, some of the things she was saying were totally accurate. I'm impatient. Those are the usual reasons I'm going to hell. I still haven't felt bad about it. The other reasons I'm going to hell.
More than one person had said this colleague will teach me to mellow out. I haven't fully embraced the mellowing yet. Although I feel like I will approach a zen-like state when I can really be around this person and not caught up in my own shit. I need to re-learn self-hypnosis. So can you feel remorse without feeling guilty? Maybe I feel guilt and shame and just haven't admitted it yet. Although posting this on my blog might be a step in the right direction.
I was asking my co-workers about the culture up here regarding Martin Luther King Day. In the discussion a native Minnesotan colleague mildly excused agencies and places of business up here that do not take the day off. And then asked me if I celebrated Black History Month. I did not even tried to hide the eye roll. I pointed out that one is a month, (not unlike Breast Cancer Awareness Month or National Family Caregiver Awareness Month) and that Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday.
And the co-worker went off. Went off on me. Boom. And I just sat there and let her. And the more upset she got, the more I got into my own head. I was sitting there thinking about how to diffuse the situation without really feeling any emotions at all. Something that I learned in social work school is that only one person can be in affect, (means emotions) at one time, and everyone else goes into the cognitive (means thinking) state. It's really true.
The point the person was trying to make is that I treat her like she's stupid. And I got more and more into my own head (and here's the part where I'm really going to hell) listening to her cite examples of what she felt were inferior intelligence in herself. While she was going off on me. For making her feel stupid. And I was really able to see the ridiculousness and patheticness of a person sitting in front of me saying "here's all the reasons I could be stupid, don't make me feel stupid".
Still inside my own head. Showing no emotion at all. Saying, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way" and "I apologize" and she kept going and going. Giving more examples. And then she said "I'm older than you" as another reason she was smart. I still had no visible emotion but that is the one thing I remembered later. I remember someone saying once, "if you have to tell someone you're an adult, you're not". I take crap all the time because of my age in my job. And so do this person, I know she does. Apparently the age thing is pissing me off. I remember another friend saying that she was two years older (and therefore wiser) and I remember being younger but understanding why she was wrong. (It's not anyone reading this blog.)
So anyways, you know, I never really got too much into my own emotions about the whole thing. I apologized right away and didn't make any excuses. But I also didn't really consider too much about how I felt about the situation. Like, do I feel bad? It was a very intellectual exercise in social work to get out of that conversation. Also, some of the things she was saying were totally accurate. I'm impatient. Those are the usual reasons I'm going to hell. I still haven't felt bad about it. The other reasons I'm going to hell.
More than one person had said this colleague will teach me to mellow out. I haven't fully embraced the mellowing yet. Although I feel like I will approach a zen-like state when I can really be around this person and not caught up in my own shit. I need to re-learn self-hypnosis. So can you feel remorse without feeling guilty? Maybe I feel guilt and shame and just haven't admitted it yet. Although posting this on my blog might be a step in the right direction.
7.11.07
The wild web roundup
After my success at the gym this morning, I've spend too much time poking around the internet.
First, can someone tell me what Quicksilver does? I know it's requires a Mac and is very popular. What does it do? How would I use it? Would I enjoy it? By the way, I'm watching Clean House. A girl opens the dishwasher that's out in the yard sale and says, "can we get a bin because our dishes are still in the dishwasher?" I'm laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes.
First, can someone tell me what Quicksilver does? I know it's requires a Mac and is very popular. What does it do? How would I use it? Would I enjoy it? By the way, I'm watching Clean House. A girl opens the dishwasher that's out in the yard sale and says, "can we get a bin because our dishes are still in the dishwasher?" I'm laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes.
- NeoPets Bouncing Game where you can bounce little animals on a see-saw so they get their yummy donut fruit and dodge poo. It doesn't look like poo though. There's sound but it otherwise safe for work.
- Causes of death are linked to weight. Skinny people are more likely to die from Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and Lung Disease while people who are overweight are more likely to diet from cancer and diabetes. Fascinating.
- The American Psychiatric Association has endorsed medical marijuana. Party.
- What we learn from the dying is an important article that I just can't read while I watch Clean House. Sorry. Let me know what you think.
- Delta and Northwest to merge? I am so screwed. Sorry, I really don't need anything that's going to make it more expensive to fly to Cincinnati. I know that's the counterintuitive reaction, it seems like this should lower prices. But over 20 years of living in Cincinnati has taught me the dangers of living in a hub city. While I have an expectation of dread, I'm reasonably hopeful that if this happens, good things will come of it.
- Lead wasn't enough, now toys have GHB too. If you don't know, GHB is the ingredient in the date-rape drug. Obviously, not child friendly. I'm trying to think about a joke about China, drugs, and possibly the olympics. I just couldn't make it happen.
- Kelly click here or How to save the world by sleeping.
- Google Sketchup info. I've always wanted to make know how to use that. Ahh, Google.
- This story might be for you, but I'm not looking. That's pretty true really. I don't care about the other things people do.
- Qwest hates Macs, Qwest is stupid. I'm linking to the Digg Page for this one. The comments are really funnier than the story.
- The narrowest home in the world. I'm linking to this partly for the pics of the home, but also, the name of the city. Madre de Deus loosely translated means "Mother of God". It's funny to me. What can I say.
Wednesday Mind Hump
Wednesday Mind Hump
Last album/CD/mp3 listened to: I just found SexyBack and started listening to it. Is that wrong? It's a great song to work out to.
Last book read: I'm in the long process of re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I haven't really restarted the reading habit after grad school. It could be too much computer time and just needing a break from that stuff. I'm not sure.
Last food eaten: Chipotle. Sorry Amanda. I know you were happy that I quit for a while. I just didn't want to pack a lunch. Maybe I need to re-institute the "no chain restaurants" rule at lunch just so that doesn't continue to happen.
Last beverage drunk: Diet Pepsi. I'm slightly scared that has it's own web site.
Last movie watched: Catch and Release. I wasn't a fan.
Last item bought: A Christmas gift for my.... uh... parent.
Incidentally, other people make "your mom" jokes too.
Last album/CD/mp3 listened to: I just found SexyBack and started listening to it. Is that wrong? It's a great song to work out to.
Last book read: I'm in the long process of re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I haven't really restarted the reading habit after grad school. It could be too much computer time and just needing a break from that stuff. I'm not sure.
Last food eaten: Chipotle. Sorry Amanda. I know you were happy that I quit for a while. I just didn't want to pack a lunch. Maybe I need to re-institute the "no chain restaurants" rule at lunch just so that doesn't continue to happen.
Last beverage drunk: Diet Pepsi. I'm slightly scared that has it's own web site.
Last movie watched: Catch and Release. I wasn't a fan.
Last item bought: A Christmas gift for my.... uh... parent.
Incidentally, other people make "your mom" jokes too.
Welcome back old friend
I'd like to say "hello" and "welcome back" to my old friend, stairmaster. It's been a long time and I'm happy to see you again. Since you, dear stairmaster, have been relocated at the gym, I can now watch myself in the mirror as I work out. And you are one of the most deceptive machines in the gym because I feel like I'm moving about 1,000 miles per hour climbing away. And then I look in the mirror and it doesn't look like I'm going that fast. But I'm happy we had this reunion today. Perhaps we can make our visits more regular now that winter is coming and I'll be indoors more than before.
I'd also like to say hello to my friend Amanda who, as I understand it, had quite a rough day yesterday. Here are some pictures of cute dogs that I hope will make you smile.
(Bonus points if you can properly identify anyone in this picture.)
(Bonus points if you can properly identify anyone in this picture.)
5.11.07
and the weekly web roundup
Remember "acting white" and then white people trying to "act black" or "act ghetto"? There's a new way to act now.
The amazing links between politics, steak and sushi. Although, now that I've told you they exist, you can probably figure out what the links are. Somehow in my mind, Texas, Republican and cow just go together. I am not ashamed.
Weird and wonderful foreign phrases. I almost navigated away from this story. And then I got to the one from Italy about "a beautiful mustachioed woman". I'm glad they have a phrase for a mustachioed woman who is pretty despite the hair on her face. And they just kept getting better after that, including "only good looking from a distance" and the "lonely old woman who devotes herself to cats" which I think should be a phrase in just about every language.
And from Randomness
1. what's your view on peanut butter?
do you like it or is it just plain gross?
Peanut butter = good. Especially the creamy kind. I almost just typed "dreamy". Dreamy is only good if it's also "hunky". Seriously, peanut butter and chocolate is one of the best combinations known to man.
2. aerobic exercising: good for you, or a tool of the devil?
Any reason it can't be both at the same time?
3. hanging out at the bookstore, is it nerdy or a fun time?
See my response to number 2
4. should your socks always match? should you wear socks at all?
I go barefoot as long as possible or sandals at work. I've tried to explain to my Minnesotan and Russian co-workers that some of my people are from Kentucky where shoes are completely optional. I've also tried to explain that all the genetic code from the Kentuckians, for some reason or other, is the heaviest and so all fell into my feet. Which, like their Kentuckian predecessors, stay bare and happy as long as possible.
5. is MySpace a great invention or just plain overrated?
I've never used it. Never used facebook either. Sorry. I'm happy with my little RSS feeds.
The amazing links between politics, steak and sushi. Although, now that I've told you they exist, you can probably figure out what the links are. Somehow in my mind, Texas, Republican and cow just go together. I am not ashamed.
Weird and wonderful foreign phrases. I almost navigated away from this story. And then I got to the one from Italy about "a beautiful mustachioed woman". I'm glad they have a phrase for a mustachioed woman who is pretty despite the hair on her face. And they just kept getting better after that, including "only good looking from a distance" and the "lonely old woman who devotes herself to cats" which I think should be a phrase in just about every language.
And from Randomness
1. what's your view on peanut butter?
do you like it or is it just plain gross?
Peanut butter = good. Especially the creamy kind. I almost just typed "dreamy". Dreamy is only good if it's also "hunky". Seriously, peanut butter and chocolate is one of the best combinations known to man.
2. aerobic exercising: good for you, or a tool of the devil?
Any reason it can't be both at the same time?
3. hanging out at the bookstore, is it nerdy or a fun time?
See my response to number 2
4. should your socks always match? should you wear socks at all?
I go barefoot as long as possible or sandals at work. I've tried to explain to my Minnesotan and Russian co-workers that some of my people are from Kentucky where shoes are completely optional. I've also tried to explain that all the genetic code from the Kentuckians, for some reason or other, is the heaviest and so all fell into my feet. Which, like their Kentuckian predecessors, stay bare and happy as long as possible.
5. is MySpace a great invention or just plain overrated?
I've never used it. Never used facebook either. Sorry. I'm happy with my little RSS feeds.
Well, what have I been up to lately?
Ok, so it's been a while since I've written to you and told you how I've been spending my time. I would like to first formally apologize for my absence. Now, I'll tell you how I've been doing.
Friday
I really have no idea what I did on Friday. I know there was work. I honestly can't remember doing anything else. I must have watched television and slept. Sorry, that was an un-exciting day.
Saturday or what I like to call the curtains the drill, part duex.
Saturday was also the day I had a most unfortunate migraine. And accidentally got high on Pledge (yes the furniture polish) while I was at Amanda's. The good news is all the curtains are properly hung and the drill is back home. I had a nice time hanging out with Amanda and was glad I could help.
Also on Saturday, remember when I used my super human strength to snap a bolt in half? I did the same thing again although this time the bolt was much smaller and the feat was less impressive.
After minor manual labor and a lovely lunch (you owe me $5.00) I came back to my plate to watch more tv. I watched Catch and Release. I don't recommend it. It's just a few too many people sleeping together for my taste. Plus the wrong guy ends up with the girl and that aggravates me as well.
Sunday
Finally learned that my cousin had her baby so there are three little cousins born within two months of each other now. How exciting. Too bad they're all so far away.
Cleaned the house a little. Although I did that some on Friday too before Amanda failed to come over. (It's ok. I was pretty tired by then.)
Was massively confused by changing all the clocks that needed to be changed.
Luckily did go out to the store to get milk. I'd been without that since Thursday. It was Thursday that I also learned I cannot make smoothies without milk. Don't ask. It goes slightly beyond "no good comes of it" and moves into "that's just gross" territory.
Ate a whole pint of Haagen Daas. It's ok though, it was mocha chip. It's good for me. How many points is in the whole container of Haagen Daas?
Bought Mom this purse as a Christmas gift. That purse is quite a commitment because it's like the one color I wouldn't really want for myself if it doesn't work out for Mom.
Am still working on a cute pajama set Christmas gift. Can anyone explain how to add items to "gift lists" on Amazon. Again, I am massively confused. Surely there must be a few worthwhile greasemonkey scripts for Amazon. Can anyone recommend one? Yes, I did just let my geek show.
Monday
It's so windy there's actually a wind advisory, the time just changed so it's super dark at 5pm, and it's one of the coldest days of the fall so far. This was like the trifecta of "reasons people can't exercise outside" so the gym was packed tonight when I went. I rode the bike and did the rowing machine. I'm seriously considering running tomorrow. Although I haven't actually run in a little while. I have to remotely get back into running because that will be my exercise while I'm at home for Thanksgiving.
And Flight of the Navigator is on right now. Yay.
Friday
I really have no idea what I did on Friday. I know there was work. I honestly can't remember doing anything else. I must have watched television and slept. Sorry, that was an un-exciting day.
Saturday or what I like to call the curtains the drill, part duex.
Saturday was also the day I had a most unfortunate migraine. And accidentally got high on Pledge (yes the furniture polish) while I was at Amanda's. The good news is all the curtains are properly hung and the drill is back home. I had a nice time hanging out with Amanda and was glad I could help.
Also on Saturday, remember when I used my super human strength to snap a bolt in half? I did the same thing again although this time the bolt was much smaller and the feat was less impressive.
After minor manual labor and a lovely lunch (you owe me $5.00) I came back to my plate to watch more tv. I watched Catch and Release. I don't recommend it. It's just a few too many people sleeping together for my taste. Plus the wrong guy ends up with the girl and that aggravates me as well.
Sunday
Finally learned that my cousin had her baby so there are three little cousins born within two months of each other now. How exciting. Too bad they're all so far away.
Cleaned the house a little. Although I did that some on Friday too before Amanda failed to come over. (It's ok. I was pretty tired by then.)
Was massively confused by changing all the clocks that needed to be changed.
Luckily did go out to the store to get milk. I'd been without that since Thursday. It was Thursday that I also learned I cannot make smoothies without milk. Don't ask. It goes slightly beyond "no good comes of it" and moves into "that's just gross" territory.
Ate a whole pint of Haagen Daas. It's ok though, it was mocha chip. It's good for me. How many points is in the whole container of Haagen Daas?
Bought Mom this purse as a Christmas gift. That purse is quite a commitment because it's like the one color I wouldn't really want for myself if it doesn't work out for Mom.
Am still working on a cute pajama set Christmas gift. Can anyone explain how to add items to "gift lists" on Amazon. Again, I am massively confused. Surely there must be a few worthwhile greasemonkey scripts for Amazon. Can anyone recommend one? Yes, I did just let my geek show.
Monday
It's so windy there's actually a wind advisory, the time just changed so it's super dark at 5pm, and it's one of the coldest days of the fall so far. This was like the trifecta of "reasons people can't exercise outside" so the gym was packed tonight when I went. I rode the bike and did the rowing machine. I'm seriously considering running tomorrow. Although I haven't actually run in a little while. I have to remotely get back into running because that will be my exercise while I'm at home for Thanksgiving.
And Flight of the Navigator is on right now. Yay.
1.11.07
And now, the book meme
Also from Kelly, I will indicate which of these books I have read by making the titles bold for you. I have a feeling these two memes will result in some amount of scolding and then book and movie sharing. Holy crap, there's over 400 books on here.
I'm adding my three at the top because they are, after all, the most important.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. Love this book.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendack. Did you know this is going to be a movie? How exciting.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Best. Book. Ever.
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby **** , Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White And this, is where, I predict, the trouble will begin. No, I haven't read this. Yes, I am a girl. I have no explanation.
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. 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.
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
262. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
266. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Biggest tear jerker ever.
267. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
268. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
269. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
270. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
271. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
272. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
273. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
274. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
275. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
276. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
277. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
278. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
279. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
280. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
281. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
282. Haunted, Judith St. George
283. Singularity, William Sleator
284. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
285. Different Seasons, Stephen King
286. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
287. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
288. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
289. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
290. Illusions, Richard Bach
291. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
292. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
294. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
295. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
296. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
297. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
298. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
299. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. (I tried, in college, for a class, but never made it through, and ended up dropping the class)
300. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
301. Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
302. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
303. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
304. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
305. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
306. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
307. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
308. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
309. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
310. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
311. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
312. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
313. The Giver, Lois Lowry
314. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
315. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
316. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
317. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil) Guess who translated several chapters from the original Latin. For college credit. In 10th grade. I am not ashamed.
319. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
320. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
321. Beowulf, Anonymous
322. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
323. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
324. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
325. Passage, Connie Willis
326. Otherland, Tad Williams
327. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
328. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
329. Beloved, Toni Morrison
330. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
331. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
332. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
333. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
334. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
335. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
336. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
337. The Genesis Code, John Case
338. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
339. Paradise Lost, John Milton
340. Phantom, Susan Kay
341. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
342. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
343. The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
344. Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
345. The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
346. The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
347. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
348. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
349. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
350. Othello, by William Shakespeare
351. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
352. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
353. Sati, Christopher Pike
354. The Inferno, Dante
355. The Apology, Plato
356. The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
357. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
358. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
359. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
360. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
361. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
362. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
363. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
364. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
365. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
366. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
367. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
368. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
369. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
370. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
371. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
372. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones - I saw the animated version, I’m guessing that doesn’t count
373. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
374. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
375. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
376. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
377. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
378. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
379. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
380. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
381. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
382. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
383. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
384. Jhereg by Steven Brust
385. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
386. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
387. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
388. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
389. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
390. Neuromancer, William Gibson
391. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
392. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
393. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
394. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
395. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
396. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
397. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
398. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
399. The God Boy, Ian Cross
400. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
401. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
402. Misery, Stephen King
403. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
404. Hood, Emma Donoghue
405. The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
406. The Diary of Anne Frank
407. Regeneration, Pat Barker
408. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
409. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
410. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
411. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
412. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
413. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
414. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
415. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
416. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales)
417. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown.
418. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
419. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
420. The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
421. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
422. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
423. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
424. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
425. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
426. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
427. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
428. The Jester, James Patterson
429. Cry the beloved Country, Alan Paton
430. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
431. The Stranger, Albert Camus
432. Deathscent, Robin Jarvis
433. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
434. My legendary girlfriend, Mike Gayle
435. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K Dick
436. Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon
437. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
438. Schild’s Ladder - Greg Egan
439. Excession - Iain M. Banks
440. One For The Morning Glory - John Barnes
441. The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
442. A Death in the Family - James Agee
443. Fup - Jim Dodge
444. Girl Soldier by Faith J H McDonnell and Grace Akallo
445. We Could Almost Eat Outside by Philippe Delerm and Sarah Hamp
446. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I'm adding my three at the top because they are, after all, the most important.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. Love this book.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendack. Did you know this is going to be a movie? How exciting.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Best. Book. Ever.
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby **** , Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White And this, is where, I predict, the trouble will begin. No, I haven't read this. Yes, I am a girl. I have no explanation.
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. 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.
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
262. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
266. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Biggest tear jerker ever.
267. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
268. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
269. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
270. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
271. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
272. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
273. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
274. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
275. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
276. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
277. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
278. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
279. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
280. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
281. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
282. Haunted, Judith St. George
283. Singularity, William Sleator
284. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
285. Different Seasons, Stephen King
286. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
287. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
288. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
289. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
290. Illusions, Richard Bach
291. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
292. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
294. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
295. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
296. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
297. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
298. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
299. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. (I tried, in college, for a class, but never made it through, and ended up dropping the class)
300. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
301. Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
302. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
303. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
304. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
305. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
306. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
307. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
308. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
309. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
310. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
311. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
312. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
313. The Giver, Lois Lowry
314. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
315. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
316. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
317. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil) Guess who translated several chapters from the original Latin. For college credit. In 10th grade. I am not ashamed.
319. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
320. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
321. Beowulf, Anonymous
322. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
323. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
324. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
325. Passage, Connie Willis
326. Otherland, Tad Williams
327. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
328. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
329. Beloved, Toni Morrison
330. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
331. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
332. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
333. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
334. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
335. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
336. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
337. The Genesis Code, John Case
338. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
339. Paradise Lost, John Milton
340. Phantom, Susan Kay
341. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
342. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
343. The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
344. Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
345. The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
346. The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
347. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
348. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
349. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
350. Othello, by William Shakespeare
351. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
352. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
353. Sati, Christopher Pike
354. The Inferno, Dante
355. The Apology, Plato
356. The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
357. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
358. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
359. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
360. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
361. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
362. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
363. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
364. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
365. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
366. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
367. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
368. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
369. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
370. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
371. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
372. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones - I saw the animated version, I’m guessing that doesn’t count
373. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
374. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
375. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
376. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
377. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
378. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
379. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
380. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
381. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
382. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
383. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
384. Jhereg by Steven Brust
385. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
386. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
387. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
388. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
389. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
390. Neuromancer, William Gibson
391. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
392. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
393. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
394. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
395. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
396. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
397. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
398. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
399. The God Boy, Ian Cross
400. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
401. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
402. Misery, Stephen King
403. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
404. Hood, Emma Donoghue
405. The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
406. The Diary of Anne Frank
407. Regeneration, Pat Barker
408. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
409. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
410. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
411. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
412. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
413. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
414. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
415. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
416. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales)
417. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown.
418. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
419. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
420. The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
421. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
422. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
423. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
424. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
425. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
426. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
427. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
428. The Jester, James Patterson
429. Cry the beloved Country, Alan Paton
430. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
431. The Stranger, Albert Camus
432. Deathscent, Robin Jarvis
433. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
434. My legendary girlfriend, Mike Gayle
435. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K Dick
436. Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon
437. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
438. Schild’s Ladder - Greg Egan
439. Excession - Iain M. Banks
440. One For The Morning Glory - John Barnes
441. The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
442. A Death in the Family - James Agee
443. Fup - Jim Dodge
444. Girl Soldier by Faith J H McDonnell and Grace Akallo
445. We Could Almost Eat Outside by Philippe Delerm and Sarah Hamp
446. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
A Movie Meme from Kelly
Per Kelly's instructions, these are from the AFI top 100 list. I will indicate to you the ones I have watched by making the tiles bold.
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) What would you do if I hadn't seen this?
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On The Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler’s List (1993) The book is even better. One of the most well written things I have ever read. Even without the power of the subject matter, the book is a great read.
10. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
11. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977) The Star Wars exhibit is coming to The Science Museum. My first thought? "Tony and Doug will come see me" followed immediately by "They'll bring their wives who I really want to see." (These are people from Cincinnati.)
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960) No. Just no.
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941) This one has some memories attached because of who watched this with me.
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933) I have seen the remake.
44. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Such a good movie. Snow White has the most annoying voice ever.
50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here To Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound Of Music (1965) I know every word of this movie. And I love it.
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958) No, but I can relate.
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence Of The Lamb (1991) - No. Just… no. I second Kelly's words.
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American In Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996) Means so much more now that I live here.
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place In The Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994) Not my favorite movie.
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) What would you do if I hadn't seen this?
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On The Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler’s List (1993) The book is even better. One of the most well written things I have ever read. Even without the power of the subject matter, the book is a great read.
10. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
11. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977) The Star Wars exhibit is coming to The Science Museum. My first thought? "Tony and Doug will come see me" followed immediately by "They'll bring their wives who I really want to see." (These are people from Cincinnati.)
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960) No. Just no.
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941) This one has some memories attached because of who watched this with me.
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933) I have seen the remake.
44. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Such a good movie. Snow White has the most annoying voice ever.
50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here To Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound Of Music (1965) I know every word of this movie. And I love it.
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958) No, but I can relate.
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence Of The Lamb (1991) - No. Just… no. I second Kelly's words.
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American In Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996) Means so much more now that I live here.
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place In The Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994) Not my favorite movie.
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Too much TMI? You be the judge
Here's the sequence of events.
1. Mention this story on the blog.
2. Friend comments that based on story, she fights like a man.
3. Lizzie re-reads story. Am saddened to learn they didn't mention very interesting research about fighting and blood pressure. I'll tell you now:
Researchers would invite couples in to a lab, hook them up to blood pressure machines and then ask them to argue with each other. (It took researchers an amazingly long time to learn they didn't need to suggest a topic or scenario for arguing. Simply giving the direction to argue was enough.) Then researchers sat back and watched the show. As women argued, their blood pressures dropped, almost like a release valve. As men argued, their blood pressure increased. But when men were quiet and didn't argue, their blood pressure dropped.
4. Based on points in article, can't figure out why friend thinks she argues like a man.
5. Stop trying to figure out what friend read that she identified with. Am only happy she does not fight like woman from Papua New Guinea.
PS - Just had Chipotle for the first time since sometime in September. Am very happy.
1. Mention this story on the blog.
2. Friend comments that based on story, she fights like a man.
3. Lizzie re-reads story. Am saddened to learn they didn't mention very interesting research about fighting and blood pressure. I'll tell you now:
Researchers would invite couples in to a lab, hook them up to blood pressure machines and then ask them to argue with each other. (It took researchers an amazingly long time to learn they didn't need to suggest a topic or scenario for arguing. Simply giving the direction to argue was enough.) Then researchers sat back and watched the show. As women argued, their blood pressures dropped, almost like a release valve. As men argued, their blood pressure increased. But when men were quiet and didn't argue, their blood pressure dropped.
4. Based on points in article, can't figure out why friend thinks she argues like a man.
5. Stop trying to figure out what friend read that she identified with. Am only happy she does not fight like woman from Papua New Guinea.
PS - Just had Chipotle for the first time since sometime in September. Am very happy.
As always, Kelly is right
Don't you just love that title? But seriously, I think Kelly is right about the difficulty in changing blog themes. Obviously I just changed mine because it's not October anymore. I didn't have the whole "I-didn't-do-the-php-codes-right" issue. Blogger is not that advanced people. But for some reason, it's hard to get accurately displayed colors with this monitor (could be because it's a laptop) so I had a hard time re-coloring the blog. If it looks like crap on your computer, someone please tell me.
I read an article about the benefits of Miro compared to Joost for watching tv over the internet. I found it fascinating my experience with the two programs. But then I read how Comcast is screwing with torrent traffic and decided maybe that's why I had such a hard time with Miro. If Comcast ever gets its act together, maybe I'll try again. In the mean time here's five places to download free movies in what the article claims is a legal manner. Let me know if any scary men (or nerdy men) with suits and badges show up at your door.
And, Apple is researching a touch surface keyboard. Think of the typos.
I read an article about the benefits of Miro compared to Joost for watching tv over the internet. I found it fascinating my experience with the two programs. But then I read how Comcast is screwing with torrent traffic and decided maybe that's why I had such a hard time with Miro. If Comcast ever gets its act together, maybe I'll try again. In the mean time here's five places to download free movies in what the article claims is a legal manner. Let me know if any scary men (or nerdy men) with suits and badges show up at your door.
And, Apple is researching a touch surface keyboard. Think of the typos.
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