slytherinquoll

i live!

2009-10-26T04:22:17Z

Just in case anyone on my f-list was wondering, since I haven't had a proper post in what seems like a year- I am alive! I am living in Wisconsin for how and have been since January. I have to go hang out in a garage at the horse barn I work at to get internet, and now that my car won't start, I don't even get to go to Panera, but it's all good. I'm coming back home (to Chicago burbs) for (if everything goes right) about three months, then I'm moving randomly to Cardiff. Ok, well, I guess people can guess why I picked Cardiff. *blush now* but it's a cool place and I was looking in the UK anyway. Besides, I've been talking to a lady who owns this yard in South Glamorgan and they might let me come live and work there for a while.

Yeah, and I'm going to Chicago TARDIS 09. I'll be there even if my mom has to give me a ride there! It'll be the first con I payed to get into. I hung out around Terminus but we were in Mackinac the first part and I was really broke so we just went to Reggies and that stuff. Also, I was dressed as Tonks for that but I wasn't doing anything special. I plan on being in character as Gwen the whole time there, even though I have a feeling not too many people will be cosplaying at all.

Also I haven't been knitting too much but I have made one Marquise gauntlet
http://www.elann.com/ShowFreePattern.asp?Id=249024
again and this time I've even started the match with the same yarn!

Writer's Block: Life is a masquerade

2009-10-03T00:21:06Z

Are you planning to dress up for Halloween? How long do you typically plan your costume? Do you keep it a secret?

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HELL YEAH! I love halloween. I start thinking of and planning my costume typically around the beginning of September. Once I decide, everyone knows because I barely shut up about it. Last year I was Vyvyan from The Young Ones and this year I'm being Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd.

Writer's Block: On the (Job) Hunt

2009-09-15T18:34:27Z

What's the hardest part about looking for a new job?

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greg's place

2009-01-08T04:41:35Z

I think I forgot about LJ. Yeah.
But, Siriusly, the 11th Doctor= HOT and I'm very happy about that. I already made some icons, one of which I am using now.

and I'm pretty sure I got a job. A good one. I have a weekend long trial this Friday through Sunday. It's as a working student/instructor to very beginners. It's in Onalaska, Wisconsin.

MOM, Whompy, and JFF

2008-11-23T05:37:34Z

I just got home from a wrock show, it was really cool. I have pretty good footage that I'll put together and put on YouTube soon. For now, here's a shot I capped off one of the vids I took.

I got everyone to sign my Deathly Hallows so now I have 10 whole signatures on it. :p

I also bought Goodbye Privet Drive finally and I love their cover of Potions Yesterday. I wish I had enough for a shirt. I bought a tiny pin from Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills. I really wish Whompy and Ministry of Magic would get some pins. They're cheap and I can put them all on my purse and then I'll always see them.

Nerdfighting

2008-11-17T01:54:07Z

I'm sitting here in an auditorium. This is a special auditorium because John, Hank, and Katherine are here. I gave them a wristwarmer that says NF, and I got a dreamcatcher. Hank said was to catch extra nerdy dreams and I told him I've been dreaming whole episodes of Angel so my dreams are already extra nerdy. :) I had all three of them sign my DH and John wrote CRAP on the epilogue and then Hank went to do it and was sad that John beat him. Katherine also signed it. I'm going to have the wrocker boys sign it too. Next Saturday I'm going to see Ministry of Magic, Whompy, and Justin Finch Fletchly and the the Sugar Quills.

slytherinquoll @ 2008-11-08T23:29:00

2008-11-09T05:31:00Z

I have just failed the Walmart test. I now have to wait another 60 days before re-applying. I had to sit there and lie about 65 questions about how thrilled and excited I am to pursue my career at Walmart and I failed it.

So then I go to the McDonald's website, and it says they're hiring at the one like three blocks from my house, but I have to use Internet Explorer to fill out the application.

At least I can update my yardandgroom.com profile to say I'm willing to go anywhere starting next semester.

Quote time!

2008-11-05T23:55:07Z

Random man at party (to Angel): You are a beautiful, beautiful man
Angel: Thanks.
Random man (several lines later): This isn't a come on I'm in a wonderful relationship with a landscape architect.

half assed Vyv costume pics

2008-11-02T01:28:02Z

So, I didn't bother doing anything special to my hair and I didn't buy a new belt like his but I made the jacket. My hair was like that anyway, has been for about two weeks. A lot of people thought I did it for Halloween but no. I did save the orange for close to Halloween because I knew I was going as Vyvyan though.
(With my lil brother the cowboy)

I am aware there is a large gap between the e and the t.

That's it!

SLEEEEEEEEPPPPPP

2008-10-29T09:02:43Z

I AM A SAD ORPHAN GIVE ME MONEY YOU OLD BAG!!!!!!!!!

In the early morning when the people should be sleeping

2008-10-13T16:29:56Z

Last night something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me. Even when my sister was little and we shared a room, when she woke up screaming because the severe thunderstorm scared her. I was waken up last night because of a noise.
By the time I came to enough to realize it was a sound that was bothering me I was still to drowsy to wonder what it was. At first I thought it was a storm, because it was threatening to yesterday. Then, I thought it was a raccoon rummaging in our garbage bins. They're right outside my window. I peaked through the blinds but I couldn't see them from the angle of my window. It was a few minutes later that I remembered my dad saying they come and take the garbage in the middle of the night. I peaked out again and caught the lights of a big truck driving away through the thin wall of trees.
I started the Goblet of Fire audiobook where I last remembered before I fell asleep and set my computer to fall asleep in one hour. If I let it play all night I wake up like I never slept at all, worse than an all-nighter. I layed there for an hour, but it cut off somewhere around Veela- and then I was just laying there. I couldn't stand it and it was about 6 am, an hour til my first alarm went off and I knew if I fell asleep I'd never get out of bed and I'm sick of being late to school.
I put on Angel where I left off, I got two episodes in and then hurried out of the house to stop at McDonald's before school.
I was still kind of dazed, and I swayed on the spot while I was waiting at the busy McDonalds. They were out of biscuits and Mcgriddles. I wanted a biscuit, but I settled for a funny tasting bacon egg and cheese bagel and a coke.
Now I still feel messed up, my eyes warm and tired. I think I got the equivalent of 2 good hours of sleep.

Zane?

2008-09-29T16:34:05Z

I'm here at school again, and there's another musician up on the little stage with his guitar. He's kinda cute, he's called Zane Williams. Definitely the kind of music I listen to in my car when I'm driving alone and want to belt something out.

Yesterday I bought a lot of stuff. I bought a jean jacket to make into Vyvyan's for Halloween, and I got it for under $5. Then I wanted to go to Hobby Lobby to get the studs for it, but it was closed on Sunday for "family time and Worship." bull. So I went into the fabric store and got a white paint pen and a black sharpie and three little ceramic pots for Vim's tank.
Then I went into that huge book/music/movie/stuff store and almost bought a Slytherin shirt and a Serenity lunchbox, but I decided to save my money, but I bought a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix poster book, to wallpaper my room with. I also got the Lord of the Rings trilogy finally, so I can read it instead of just listen to the audiobook. :D

I also said I didn't want to make more videos, but I do whatever I feel like at the time, and right now I'm feeling like making some more videos.

A lot has been going on

2008-09-25T20:39:52Z

?

Has it? Or do I just have a lot to talk about?

I saw Sweeney Todd last night, live and it was amazing, for lack of a better word.
All of the actors also played instruments, Toby was crazy, and there was a very good song that came back in a lot of reprises that was taken out out of the movie. It was the Ballad of Sweeney Todd, and it was great.
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
His face was pale and his eye was odd..."

The ending was so great.

The original Broadway was a very grand scale musical, but the 2005 revival scaled it down a lot. It was written for a huge orchestra, but I think the smaller version is cooler.
Here's where you can hear samples of the 1979 cast recording http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd/dp/B0013DDPAK/ref=dmusic_cd_album

and the 2005 cast recording
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd/dp/B0012ELMK0/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_2

and the 2007 movie version (which I own)
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Barber-Picture-Soundtrack-Highlights/dp/B001202LR2/ref=dmusic_cd_album?ie=UTF8&qid=1222372329&sr=1-1

Today I woke up, went to check on the rats, and found one of the babies with guts coming out of it, dead. Dad's gonna help me clean it up tonight, and check if the other baby is still alive. If it is, I think we'll freeze it.

Right now I'm watching/listening to Lauren Fairweather do a live BlogTV thinger. She took my request first, and sang Kayley's Song. >_<

I went to Walmart and got some stuff. I found a really early Toby Keith cd, one that has some songs from my greatest hits cd that I got for my birthday in 7th grade, and it was $5.00!
I also found a package of two Tim McGraw cds for $8.82. :D
I haven't listened to them yet.

Phil Vassar Concert Pictures! TFL.org fanlistings

2008-09-22T23:13:48Z

I went to see Phil Vassar on Saturday, and he was playing at a racetrack so I got to see a NASCAR race too! :D

I also re-applied at thefanlistings.org for an Emerson Drive fanlisting. I was approved about two years ago, but I never did more than the main page, because I couldn't figure out scripts and I thought I'd need it. I can just paste a code and enter my email info, and then update it by hand, because I don't expect too many fans.

Dates, Fish, and Web Sites

2008-09-19T00:04:16Z

So, I've known the date and time of the one Sweeney Todd showing that I just bought tickets to yesterday for a long time. I've also known the date and time of my class for a long time. I just connected today that they are in fact, the same date, same time! What am I going to do? Blow off humanities, of course! I won't entirely though, I'll make a video for the mini presentation, and hand my hand outs to the teacher at her desk on Monday.

Now you know why I am in fact so bad at managing my time and remembering dates.

In other news, I TICKETS TO SWEENEY TODD RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF ROW 4! And they only cost me $25!

I DON"T HAVE A SWEENEY ICON SO OTHER JOHNNY CHARACTER WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW!

I LIKE ALL CAPS TODAY!

OH, AND I got a fishy. His name is Vim Fuego.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m94/Oslobunn/100_3176.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m94/Oslobunn/100_3135.jpg

MY WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING FINALLY! WOOHOO! I feel like making King Arthur fanart, or as I like to call it, FArt.

^ click that to go to my pretty website.

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

2008-09-16T19:16:12Z

I am watching it right now.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog#s-p1-st-i0

Pretty much the reason it's funny so far is seeing Nathan Fillion in it.

Just Hangin'

2008-08-27T16:44:27Z

I'm sitting in the student center listening to a girl called Shevy Smith singing and playing guitar. She's pretty good. Maybe I'll record a little bit here with imovie. I got the English class thing worked out, I'm in a creative writing class with some characters. I was finally going to sit down and watch that Comic Strip Presents that has a really pretty young Ade and Jen in it, but I think I'll just listen to Shevy instead. I wonder if she has a CD out.

Last night I saw a really good Mash episode, Hawkeye runs off to the peace talks. :D When he comes back BJ throws a party and they're all wearing red and they all dye their hair red.
I was thinking I'd dye my hair red now anyway because it's faded pink now, but it's almost all blonde with one inch dark brown roots, so once I bleach the brown out I really could do any color, but I like red. I went to Sally's and they had a permanent red dye, so I will either buy that, or I will transfer $15 to my paypal from my old IL checking and buy two bottles of Cherry Bomb. Also, the fountains at my school have dyed water that looks like MP's Enchanted Forest, and I have a teeny bit of it left so I may do the tips or just a streak of it in the red.

Yesterday my dad and I went to the Farm Progress show. I posed for pictures in front of a bunch of huge ass combines and tractors, and we saw Nevada Joe, a mustang who has a breyer model made of him. Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/thamnophis/AgProgressShow

College Student

2008-08-25T16:43:39Z

I am sitting here in the main building of the college, waiting to see an adviser about my screwed up schedule. I am trying to block out the extreme stupidity of the kids sitting around me. It's not working because I am also waiting for them to call my name. I thought I was used to the stupidity from going to one of the most stuck up high schools in the country, but these kids are almost worse.
I somehow signed up for a non credit English class, NOT what I wanted. I also wasn't even on the class list at all, even though I can access my schedule from my online thingy.
I think I am the only person here who moved from Chicago just to go here.

*very audible sigh*

I Finished Breaking Dawn

2008-08-10T21:16:15Z

I just finished Breaking Dawn. I'm sitting here at work and the feeling is different, yet kind of the same as finishing Deathly Hallows. Like I could pass out or jump up and down at the same time. I have to say, I liked it.

I'm a little disappointed that the wolves aren't true werewolves, because now Leanne's song Lupine Lover is technically incorrect. I knew t was too good to be true because the pack was so awesome. It was like being a wolf and a man at the same time, without the pain of the full moon. I almost would trade Leah's pain to be able to feel that, to shapeshift into a wolf. The one thing I kept forgetting was their size. I kept picturing Jake a little bigger than an Irish Wolfhound, so everytime it said he looked down at Bella I got a little jolt. When Emmet said "horse sized wolves" I was finally able to picture it.
Once I got a day to sit and think about it, I was fine with Jake imprinting because of who he imprinted on. I was startled, but I liked it when Edward said, "Goodbye, Jacob, my brother... my son." because I guess eventually he will be his son.
I am trying to resist the urge to immediately start reading it again. I think I would, but at home I have a freshly signed copy of An Abundance of Katherines waiting for me. :D

AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDD

2008-08-09T08:28:06Z

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!

Today was amazingly awesomely awesome! I cannot even explain how amazing it was. It was probably one of the best days of my life, if not THE best.

It started out normal enough, I was able to wake up before my alarm and get out of bed at around 10:30, then I went and picked up my check, $200, and went to the credit union and cashed half, deposited the other half. Then Trish and I went downtown (someone que Kevin Turvey! jk) and went to the huge ass library to see JOHN AND HANK GREEN!!! Then, I bought An Abundance of Katherines for $4.50 and John signed it, but wait, it gets even more awesome! Standing directly behind me were 3 of the 5 Awesome Girls! So I took a picture with Lauren, Kristina, and Kayley.

Then we went to Panera, where Kayley, Kristina, and Lauren came in just minutes after us. Then went over to the park and saw more awesome Youtube people. When John and Hank showed up Hank did his two Harry Potter songs, and then Leanne and Lena sang and Lauren and Kristina joined in some, and it was awesome, because John came up and stood right behind where I was sitting to film them singing the song about Looking For Alaska. Hank got up and I got a pic with him. (squee!!!)

Then we went to the Bean and made a movie!

Then we went to Reggie;s Music thingy for DANCE PARTAY WITH JOHN AND HANK GREEN! Ok, so really, it was Hank opened with the same two songs, then some newer wrock bands I hadn't really heard of, then Paul from Harry and the Potters played some songs and everyone was dancing like crazy. My feet were really tired we went to sit down by the wall, and I was kind of dancing there. All of the sudden, John was dancing like two feet from me, then Hank joined in. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

THEN, (that's right, the awesome doesn't stop there!!!) Just when I was saying, "The only thing ever that could make this night better was if Alex Carpenter showed up." AND THEN HE DID! With MC Dumbledore. THEN, Whompy and Brian of Draco and the Malfoys came on and Alex played tambourine and they really rocked out, then they played Wizard Rock Heart Throb and I was screaming, then they played Draco and Harry and right in the middle Paul came up and kissed Brian!! :DDDDDD My camera had run out of battery by that time. :( Then they did House of Awesome and I was just screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs. Then it was over and they kicked us out.

All in all, I think 8/8/08 was wonderful, super, fantastic, coolness, remarkable, and AWESOME and the best day in the history of the world.

Revisiting Breaking Dawn

2008-08-08T00:57:18Z

Ok, so I had a day to sit and think, and I think I'm ok with Jake imprinting on Renesmee or whatever her name is. At least he is happy and gets to stay in the family, but I just really didn't want to give up the hope of that one scenario Bella imagines in Eclipse where she and Jake have a happy little family running about their heels. So now fate's a main part of the story too. I think Stephenie is saying it was fate that Bella and Edward have a child, and that that future was so strongly tied to Bella that there was really powerful magic tied to it to make Bella need to be near Jake. That makes no sence the way I wrote it but it does in my head! The only other explanation was that Renesmee way part of Bella before she was even born, that she was there in spirit?
I can't be articulate with words at all today. Anyway, my stuff's done importing to imovie so I guess I'll go continue to make my little vid. (Nerf Herder and Rik Mayall!)

Breaking Dawn

2008-08-07T02:09:52Z

i just finished book two, and oh my god. I literally screamed out loud, "OH NO JACOB DON'T DO THAT!!" What the fuck. I was really thoroughly enjoying reading about the pack, because that is always the part that while reading the other books I wished we got to hear more about. Jake is hands down my favorite character in the entire series, and it's not just because he's a wolf. (Although that certainly helps)
Book one was way too ugh for me. I was going" Oh no Steph, you're giving all the little fangirls a perfect little wedding and honeymoon, it's too gushy, it's too guchy!" Ever since Edward hinted that a shotgun wedding wouldn't be that bad, I thought Bella was just going to acquire a child somehow, but I really didn't think she'd get pregnant until about when she ate the "bad" chicken and then woke up sick. I was sooooo excited when I saw book 2, honestly I was so eager to start reading and preoccupied by the ball thingy we had to go to that night that it didn't even register as weird that the contents only contained so few chapters, I didn't even check the page numbers. I also go SOOOOO INCREDIBLY EXCITED when Edward actually suggested Bella have a real family with him. He's so warm, so real. I love him and I am entirely envious of the close and easy relationship Bella has with him. I was also afraid he and Leah were going to have a thing there for a while when he was saying how nice it was to be on the same plain with her. When Edward started hearing the baby, I was annoyed. Things were going so well between Edward and Jacob because none of them cared about anything anymore but Bella, and making her happy.
I was pretty sure Bella wouldn't die but I also kinda wanted Jake to take a swing at the baby. I really hope they don't keep that stupid name. The whole car had to ask me what was wrong when I read that Jake imprinted. I don't think I can even pick up the book again for a while. I need to just lay down and try and take a nap back here in the car.

Today is Wednesday. I got Breaking Dawn on Monday. We got to Charlevoix on Friday and I asked in the only book store they had and their waiting list was already longer than the amount of books they were scheduled to get in. On Sunday we got to Mackinac Island and didn't have time to check around town for a book store until Monday. Honestly, I expected them to all be sold out, but the one books store in town had a few books left. They gave me a button and a sheet of stickers, which I was disappointed to see said "Edward and Bella 4 Ever" and My <3 Belongs to Edward. I contemplated going back and asking for Jake stickers. :P

Ugh, I guess I'll have to get around to reading the book before Friday, because Trish and I are going downtown for the John Green thing, and I want to meet Hank, and then hopefully staying for this wrock thing at some place that I think may be a club because you need to be 17 to get in. I'll be back in town for my riding lesson tomorrow but I already told them last week that I wouldn't so I canceled. It's actually ok though, because I need that money for train tickets downtown and I want to buy Looking For Alaska so I can finally read it and so John will sign it (hopefully!) then that wrock thing costs $15. I also have to face the disappointment of my boss/4-H leader which is much, much worse than wrath or furry, because yet again, I failed to clear days at work before heading out of town. I really though that I got people to cover for me this time. I think he should just fire me officially, I;m leaving for college in less than three weeks and anyone else would have fired me a long, long time ago. I am pathetic. I can't even get it together enough to just make sure I find someone to work for me before leaving for a vacation I've known about for about a year.

I need a break from Breaking Dawn, peace out.

I Keep Comin Back

2008-07-28T00:15:31Z

Today closes another year at the fair, and I have much to say, so I'll say it all in one post.

Firstly, I witnessed a conversation that went about like this. It was in the dark, in between Ashton Shepard and Josh Gracin, so I couldn't tell who was saying what.

"There's like fuckin nothin out there man, like two towns. It's the fuckin badlands! Where the fuck did he say he's goin? Iowa. that's gonna be hard as fuck, breaking fuckin horses all day man. Yeah but it pays man. I no man but still. I could fuckin do team roping cuz there's two guys but not heel ropin that's too fuckin hard but I could learn to fuckin rope the horns. I know man. It's fuckin cold here. Where the fuck is he? He's meeting his girlfrien. Aw fuck."

And I don't think I've ever been around so many people smoking everywhere at once. I almost lost my voice any way due to a cold, so the smoke really didn't help. Also I was screaming during the rodeos and Josh Gracin so that didn't help either.

I have a whole lot more to say but I have to go eat dinner so I'll just edit this post later.

On Friday I took an older woman up to the fair, she had been a volunteer at the farm until her health deteriorated. She really wanted to see the rodeo, and I agreed because I didn't know if I'd have enough money to get up to the fair, and she payed for gas. We got to the rodeo about an hour early, and I just snagged a great seat and sat and read Catcher in the Rye. I've never actually finished it. The start of the rodeo was really dramatic, the girls carrying the big flags, the announcer (named Kelly) gave a speech about putting aside all our differences, politics, religion, and having a good time, then he asked everyone to join in on their prayer. I thought that was a little funny. Then we all recognized the people who served in the armed forces, and then rose for the national anthem, then the bucking horse riding began!

I just wore plain old converse and a t-shirt and jeans. I could have worn my fancy western boots and my plaid shirt with the yoke and shiny silver things and my belt with the buckle and my Wranglers, but I didn't feel like I had to dress to fit in and prove I'm a cowgirl.

Saturday my mom was going up near the fair anyway to see my aunt so she dropped me off and I just kind of hung out in the dairy barn with the other 4-H kids and moms, and they gave me a present for making the banner, a box of purple hair dye! At 6 pm I went to the rodeo again, but I left right after the team roping because I wanted to make it back to the dairy barn in time to catch some free food. My 4-H leader's Holstein cow Jenny won the whole thing, best dairy cow, so as tradition states, she bought dinner for the whole barn.
Then my step-dad came up and we walked around, we saw Woody's Menagerie show, which is just some guy and his family showing off their private exotic pets. Then we went and listened to Ashton Shepard but she was almost done, then next was JOSH GRACIN!! Oh my god, that was amazing, there is no other word for it. I ended up moving down about two or three people from the stage, at the end, right next to the speaker. He was awesome and his new fiddle player was so cute and he played electric fiddle! :D
Here are the videos I took

and me talking about it and how I almost got a shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZudOuLX1pk

Today I mostly slept because I ended up going to sleep at 7 am and sleeping until 6 pm, but I also did some thinking about life. I'm taking some more lyrics to heart, I want to take everything that this world has to give, I want to live. I also think the best that you can hope for is to die with your boots on, and that life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire. I've decided to go to live in Ames as planed, take a few classes, and get a job, preferably at a barn. I think I was basing my happiness too much on my success in the hunter jumper show ring. I'd like to try at take up some western riding, perhaps in exchange for working at a barn. I still want to keep taking weekly jumping lessons but I want to get out there and just ride to ride. I want to relax and stop banking my happiness once and for all on how many views my Youtube videos have, how many people reply to my forum threads, and dumb things like that. I just want to live.

I have more videos of the rodeo and of some lions and two ligers that I'll post later.

Best Breaking Dawn Theories I've Heard So Far

2008-07-20T03:25:29Z

And by best I mean the ones that I really hope happen.

1. The Volturi kill Edward. Bella hears his voice in her head telling her to be happy. Bella and Jacob can live their lives the way they would have naturally, together.
Apart from me just wanting to see poor Jake happy, this scenario would leave out difficult things like pulling her parents into something or ignoring them without giving them reason or warning.

2. Bella is turned some way or another and her power is to literally take other people's emotion, most notably, pain. This would mean she felt it herself and not the other person.

I still don't know exactly when I'm getting my copy of Breaking Dawn. We're leaving home Tuesday, August 1st really early, and if all goes well we should be somewhere around Charlevoix, Michigan on August 2nd. I don't yet know if we're going to be there by Tuesday night, or if we plan on getting there on Wednesday. We have friends in Charlevoix, that's why we're stopping. The final destination is Mackinac Island, where we will be until early to midday, Sunday, August 6th. :( That means there is little to no chance I will make it home in time for Wrock Out Chicago, and since I couldn't afford tickets to Terminus, I'll have to settle for the dinky little unofficial meat-ups. :( There were so many people I wanted to meet and so many wrock bands I wanted to see. I've wanted to go to a Remus Lupins show for a whole year, and they came within an hour of my house three times, but I couldn't make any due to a combination of no gas money, a blizzard, and my parents thinking it was too far. :(

Commandeered Book meme

2008-06-26T20:00:46Z

I'm NOT going to count those that I have only listened to on audiobook and not read

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I've listened to the first two in audio books
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (been recommended to me more than twice)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (sadly I've only gotten two down)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Made the mistake of watching the creepy animated version as a child and since had no desire to read it until I got into LotR)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I think I read the first three books in the series a long time ago)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (in 6th grade!)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (my mom tried to get me to read this a lot, but I never wanted to)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (it was good but I didn't love it)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 9, and only three of those were on my own time (not for school) although I did read Lord of the Flies on my own after I had already read it for school since I liked it so much.