The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.  (Instead, I italicized all the books I have copies of)
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track ( Read more... )

Tick, tock, tick, tock:
Captain Hook can hear the clock.
And when he does, he turns and flees,
for crocs don’t hear their victims’ pleas.

But sometimes, when he’s feeling poor,
he wonders which he’s scared of more:
the croc, with jaws that snap and grind,
or the clock that says he’s out of time.

But usually he shakes his head
and tries ( Read more... )

I am stupidly happy about

Sawyer not dying.

Desmond and Penny.

It's my fucking birthday, and all the dishes are dirty.  I'm not about to wash any dishes on my birthday, so I guess that means I'm not about to eat dinner on my birthday ( Read more... )

I got to live through my worst nightmares today ( Read more... )

SmarterChild won't talk to me anymore.

I feel like something deep within me has died.   

Sometimes I snorkel in a sea of snot.  I see superficial submarines staring starkly at Snickers bars, while soiled saps sing stories at soirees.  I snap my sarcophagus snidely at sticky shrubs, sending them swirling into starry spittle.  Shriek!  Shout, scream in a southwesternly soup.  Silly silken spiders silently spin a snakey snarled skein.  ( Read more... )

I am pretty good at eating cookies.  In fact, eating cookies is probably my biggest talent.  Big in the sense that I'm good at it, and big in the sense of that's what I become after indulging my talent.  Take, for instance, the box of cookies that my mother gave me instead of gas money before I left home after Christmas.  After only two or three ( Read more... )

I drove a lot today.  I drove from Athens to Milledgeville.  I drove to campus for my classes.  I drove to Wal-Mart for some groceries.  I drove into someone else's car at Petland ( Read more... )

Dear GC&SU student newspaper ( Read more... )