+bold those you've read
+italicize started-but-never-finished or are reading currently
+underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet
+star those you've been meaning to read or that have been recommended to you
+add three of your own
+post to your livejournal

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Scene: Iowa City. Me, Jonathan, and the blonde girl from upstairs standing around in the doorway, near the shattered glass, downed trees, and caution tape, wondering if it's going to rain and if the tarping on the roof will hold. We are discussing whether she should move her furniture away from the walls, since that's where the water will likely ( Read more... )

http://www.yogabeans.com/

This is my new favorite website. Evar.

Let me give you a little lesson in what and what not to do at the gas station. I know this is a hopping place to be at 5:30 since it's by the mall and all, not to mention that it has cheap gas and it's on a busy corner, right by the KFC and Walgreens, but seriously. When there are already three cars waiting for four pumps, don't just pull up and ( Read more... )

Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays, two interesting deaths, and one intreguing holiday or observance. Post this in your journal ( Read more... )

(phone rings)
Me: Hello?
Dad: Guess what's playing at the Children's Playhouse in Des Moines?
Me: What?
Dad: Frog and Toad are Friends!
Me: Hooray!
Dad: We could go and see Frog and Toad sing a song or make fun of Toad in his bathing suit!
Me: Hooray!
Dad: I told Sarah (my sister) but she wasn't interested. I knew you would appreciate Frog and ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/05/nuns.missile.silo.ap/index.html

Three cheers for the religious left!

The 10,000 Hours Show is this weekend. (www.10000hours.org if you've been living in a hole) Yay! We got our staff assignments for Day of Show yesterday. From 12-2 I'm doing reception set up. I'm good at setting things up and I get to work with a bunch of my friends, so that's cool. From 9 to the end of the show I'm on merchandise. No problem ( Read more... )

“We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it ( Read more... )

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