So, I'm a sucker for book memes, and this one put up by abigaillouisecaught my interest.

This is a list of the top 100 books ever published. Supposedly, the average person has only read 6 of these books.
This is what you have to do:

1. Copy the list on your blog.
2. Read through the list and mark the books you've read in bold.
3. Italicize any you started, but ( Read more... )

I don't post often, as there are few events in my life public enough to share with the entire world--but, when you're on the front page of the newspaper, that logic doesn't hold :)


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...and I'm admittedly bad at this whole journaling thing.  Life goes on, work goes on, no earth-shattering highs or lows to report.  Even if there were, I'm the sort of private person to generally keep it to myself.  And I've tried to keep diaries and journals at various points in my life, for various reasons, and they all invariably fall flat ( Read more... )

Website is FINALLY up and running, despite my having to be a programmer for the past couple of weeks (a skill which I have let atrophy, but haven't forgotten) and my desktop computer completely dying (still haven't reinstalled windows XP, a week later ( Read more... )

Meme: Three Cool Things, Two Births, Two Deaths on Your Birthday (from Wikipedia)

I don't follow directions well. None of my lists is the appropriate amount of items.

Cool Things:
1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the ( Read more... )

( That bolding meme )

To my supervisor, I humbly submit the following information, of which you seem to be blissfully unaware.

1. If I wanted to be listening to Norah Jones in my cube, I would be. That's why everyone has their own radio. I don't want to hear yours.
   
2. I especially don't want to hear you "singing" along to Norah Jones. I refrain from belting along to ( Read more... )

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Learn to eat fire.

Get your resolution here