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Mon Aug 24, 06:34 PM

"Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

- Douglas Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis.

- Douglas Adams The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Just let me sit here, let me get my breath

Mon Mar 17, 11:43 PM

I had a good day today. In class there are 16 of us. We are eventually ending up in 3 different places in the call centre, but I'm the only one going to where I'm going (ooooh secretive :P) This has been stated more than once in the class as really, I don't need to do half the stuff I've been trained to do. But today, it was different. It came up again that I'm going elsewhere and literally everyone in class said "No!" like I was leaving the country. It made me feel all warm inside, as cheezy as it sounds.
I finished reading The Robber Bride. I really enjoyed it. It was a pretty engrossing read. What I want to know is, well, the 3 main characters all live in Toronto. One of them, Charis, lives on "the island". I want to know what island. The best I can figure (with my little searching) is Wards Island. Any ideas from any Ontarians?
How I Met Your Mother is back on. Last nights episode was great! We saw the "Mother"! And I want a yellow umbrella, thankyouverymuch. Or a yellow umbrella icon. That would be great. I also feel like a bit of a fool trying to explain what a Slap Bet Commissioner is when I wear the shirt Charlene got me. But then again, I get to be a tv geek without being an outright tv geek. That's kind of awesome.

Two things I have heard and one thing I have seen on the bus in the last little bit.

Thing the first: There was a mom and a little kid. I thought she was teaching him how to count in German. You know, "Eins, zwei. No eins, zwei." The kid would repeat it, "Eins, zwei. Eins, zwei." What it turned out they were saying was "Eye spy with my little. No. Eye. Spy."

Thing the second: Said from one tall guy to a taller guy "If you were in Japan, you'd be a monster!". Very weird random bit of conversation I caught, but it made me laugh.

Thing the third: on the train coming from the northeast, it follows 32nd Street. I'm looking out the window and I see an SUV full of wiggers like "rocking out" to whatever the hell they were listening to. But not rocking out, much like this dumbass but in a car. It was very funny. I literally laughed out loud on the train.

Randomly, I am reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood and quite enjoying it, Sandbox is on the radio and I like that, I voted today but doubt my vote was enough to knock these godforsaken PC's out of power.

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Book memes are fun!

Tue Oct 16, 10:04 PM

Stolen from a blog I can't remember, this is apparently a Librarything list of the most common unread books. Bold the ones you have read, italic the ones you have started but not finished.

# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - ugh this one took forever to finish
# Anna Karenina
# Crime and punishment
# Catch-22
# One hundred years of solitude
# Wuthering Heights
# Life of Pi : a novel
# The name of the rose
# Don Quixote
# Moby Dick
# Ulysses
# Madame Bovary
# The Odyssey - english class
# Pride and prejudice
# Jane Eyre
# A tale of two cities
# The brothers Karamazov
# Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
# War and Peace
# Vanity fair
# The time traveler’s wife - loved this one too!
# The Iliad - again in English class
# Emma
# The Blind Assassin
# The kite runner
# Mrs. Dalloway
# Great expectations
# American gods : a novel
# A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
# Atlas shrugged - I don't get Ayn Rand.
# Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
# Memoirs of a Geisha
# Middlesex
# Quicksilver
# Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West …
# The Canterbury tales
# The historian : a novel
# A portrait of the artist as a young man
# Love in the time of cholera
# Brave new world
# The Fountainhead - again I read her but don't get her.
# Foucault’s pendulum
# Middlemarch
# Frankenstein
# The Count of Monte Cristo
# Dracula
# A clockwork orange
# Anansi boys : a novel
# The once and future king
# The grapes of wrath
# The poisonwood Bible : a novel
# 1984
# Angels & Demons
# The Inferno
# The satanic verses
# Sense and Sensibility
# The picture of Dorian Gray
# Mansfield Park
# One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
# To the lighthouse
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# Oliver Twist
# Gulliver’s travels
# Les misérables
# The corrections
# The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel
# The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - ech didn't like this one.
# Dune
# The prince
# The sound and the fury
# Angela’s ashes : a memoir
# The god of small things
# A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
# Cryptonomicon
# Neverwhere - this one was interesting. I haven't thought of Blackfriars the same since
# A confederacy of dunces
# A short history of nearly everything
# Dubliners
# The unbearable lightness of being
# Beloved : a novel
# Slaughterhouse-five
# The scarlet letter
# Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
# The mists of Avalon
# Oryx and Crake : a novel
# Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
# Cloud atlas : a novel
# The confusion
# Lolita
# Persuasion - this was the one Austen novel I tried to read, but never finished
# Northanger abbey
# The catcher in the rye - surprisingly this wasn't an English class novel
# On the road
# The hunchback of Notre Dame
# Freakonomics
# Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
# The Aeneid
# Watership Down
# Gravity’s rainbow
# In cold blood
# White teeth
# Treasure Island
# David Copperfield
# The three musketeers
# Cold mountain
# Robinson Crusoe
# The bell jar
# The secret life of bees
# Beowulf : a new verse translation
# The plague
# The Master and Margarita
# Atonement
# The handmaid’s tale - My favorite dystopian novel
# Lady Chatterley’s lover
# Underworld
# Little Women
# A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
# Stardust
# Jude the obscure
# The chronicles of Narnia - ugh I could just not finish this one at all!
# Possession : a romance
# Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
# Never let me go - this one was interesting as well
# The trial
# Kafka on the shore
# Bleak House
# Sons and lovers
# Alias Grace - what's with all the Atwood?
# The Arabian nights
# Baudolino
# Confessions
># The great Gatsby - english class, this one made my brain bleed.
# To kill a mockingbird - English class
# Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
# The alchemist
# Candide, or, Optimism
# Snow falling on cedars
# Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story
# Midnight’s children
# White Oleander
# A passage to India
# The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and …
# The house of the seven gables
# The lovely bones : a novel
# Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
# The Amber Spyglass - much better IMHO than Harry Potter books
# The histories
# Swann’s way
# The shadow of the wind
# Fahrenheit 451
# Good omens - loved this book!
# Running with scissors : a memoir
# Everything is illuminated : a novel
# The divine comedy
# Paradise lost
# The English patient - the book was much better than the movie, as was the "prequel" In The Skin Of A Lion
# Uncle Tom’s cabin
# The Origin of Species

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TV, reads, movies

Wed Aug 15, 09:50 PM

I watched the first 4 episodes of Heroes yesterday. OMG! I totally love this show! Every episode ends in a total cliffhanger. Hayden Panterrrwhatever is only somewhat annoying, Adrian Pasdar is really shiny, Milo Ventimiglia is like a man now (as compared to the boy he was in Gilmore Girls) and I love Masi Oka! I want to do this \o/ all the time now! His friend, Ando, is just as awesome. The season comes out on DVD on the 28th and I am going to buy it.

I've been updating my iBooks thing at facebook. Mostly with books I have read since 2005, not all of them though, and the few others I can remember reading in my life. As I dont buy a lot of books, I rely on the library. What I would really like is a list of all the books I have borrowed since I got my card. That would give me a better idea of what I've read since I moved here.

There are also a lot of movies that have come out, or are coming out, that I want to see. In no particular order:

This may have to be a movie weekend. Yay!!

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