I've been working full time for two weeks, and needless to say, I feel extremely tired.
Book meme from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ringsandcoffee
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize 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.
My results:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
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
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS 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
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
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's 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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (well… tried)
2) Floss licker? Yep, enforced habit. I know it sounds a bit disgusting, but it's the easiest.
3) How do you thread your needle? lick the floss and feed it through!
5) Are you a needle loser? Only if I'm not paying attention - I lost two within a couple of hours at a market once, but found one of them a lot later... it was a strange thing.
6) What fabric do you prefer to stitch on? 22ct - is my absolute favourite, which means I usually stitch on aida. I don't mind anything with a count above 16.
7) Bobbins or floss bags? I use bobbins - when I can be bothered.
8) Are you a scissors collector? Nope, I have one pair which do me very well.
9) Do you do your own framing, and if so, do you lace or pin? Nope... All the framing is done by professionals - I have done it one or twice and I always laced.
10) Are you a floss floozy? Yep.
11) Silk? It's nice
12) Railroader? Nope.
13) Are you a pattern or designer snob? Oh hell yes. There are a lot of things I won't stitch, and few that I have seen that I will... lol. I design my own, so I'm cool.
14) Do you get antsy when you give someone a stitched gift? Occasionally, but I don't give many stitched gifts anymore.
15) Have you reached S.A.B.L.E.? Nope.
16) Do you wash your projects? Before I take them to be framed yes, but usually only if they're showing a lot of dirt.
I got this from
lillykitten's Deviant Art journal - and I've stuck it on here to see if all the songs on it can be identified... I have my doubts!RULES
1. Put your library on shuffle.
2. Post the first line from each of the first 30 songs it plays.
3. Make people guess. NO CHEATING
4. Bold it out when someone gets it.
5. If you know it, feel free to reply!!
ADDITION: Some of these are extremely easy... some of them are NOT. I bet this list will never get finished... unless you're extremely clever, so all in!
1.I let you know, I love you so, I won’t let go .
2. Empty spaces, fill me up with holes, distant faces with no place left to go
3.I close both locks below the window, I close both blinds and turn away
4.All day, staring at the ceiling - Unwell, Matchbox20 (demiguise_lady)
5.Have you ever been close to tragedy? Close to those who have?
6.One, singular sensation every single step she takes - One!, A Chorus Line (jayafel)
7.I want to break free! - I Want to Break Free, Queen (demiguise_lady)
8.Don’t let your eyes tell the brain you should feel ashamed
9.If you take a life, do you know what you give? Odds are you won’t like what it is.
10.Hey I got a lot of faith in ya, I’ll stick with you kid, that’s the bottom line
11.I don’t want another pretty face, I don’t just anyone to hold
12.Grew up in a small town and when the rain would fall down, I’d just stare out my window - Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson (jayafel)
13.Mary belongs to the words of a song, I try to be strong for her, try not to be wrong for her
14.Fumbling his confidence, and wondering why the world has passed him by - Meant to Live, Switchfoot (jayafel)
15.Well you can’t tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk - Stayin' Alive, the Bee Gees (demiguise_lady)
16.Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket - Catch a falling Star, Perry Como - I have the Block version... (jayafel)
17.Even now, the world is bleeding
18.Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves - Friend Like Me, Robin Williams/Aladdin (jayafel)
19.Life was filled with guns and war and all of us got trampled on the floor
20.Never met a girl who could make me feel the way that you do, you’re alright
21.Welcome to the planet, welcome to existence
22.Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh - Photograph, Nickelback (jayafel)
23.You know this boogie is for real
24.Night and the spirit of life, calling - He Lives in You, Lebo M./ Lion King Stage show (jayafel)
25.Golden years, gold
26.I know you think that I shouldn’t still love you, or tell you that - White Flag, Dido (jayafel)
27.You’ve got your mother and your brother every other undercover telling you what to say
28.Check it out, going out on a late night
29.Feels like you made a mistake, you made somebody’s heart break - Disease (Last Beautiful Girl?), Matchbox20 (demiguise_lady)
30.She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene - Billie Jean, Michael Jackson (demiguise_lady)
- Voice Type:
creative - Interference Type:not one of the songs on the list!
2.) What was your dream growing up?
3.) What talent do you wish you had?
4.) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
5.) Favorite vegetable?
6.) What was the last book you read?
7.) What zodiac sign are you ?
8.) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9.) Worst Habit?
10.) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11.) What is your favorite sport?
12.) Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13.) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14.) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15.) Tell me one weird fact about you
16.) Do you have any pets?
17.) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18.) What was your first impression of me?
19.) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20.) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21.) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22.) What color eyes do you have?
23.) Ever been arrested?
24.) Bottle or Draft?
25.) If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26.) Would you date me?
27.) Where 's your favorite place to hang out?
28.) Do you believe in ghosts?
29.) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30.) Do you swear a lot?
31.) Biggest pet peeve?
32.) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33.) Do you believe in/appreciate romance?
34.) If you could spend 12 hours with me and ask/do anything you like, what would it be?
35) Do you believe in God?
36.) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
I reckon there should be a lot of Peter Carey on this list , as well as a stack more S.E Hinton. But that's up to them, yes?
Well, nothing much has been happening in the personal life. I perhaps see friends once a week and occasionally not even that. Not sure if it stunts my social skills, but there you go. Other than that, I go to uni basically every day, which I suppose involves seeing some people. Anyway, other than that, I had two shifts from work for the entirity of september, which sucks, and so far it looks as if I have one shift for october. These guys don't know the meaning of loyalty i've found. I've been there for 4 years and apparently october is a busy month.
Other than that, I have my first cross stitch commission, which is cool. Not as cool as it would be if I was selling one of my books, but you have to take it where it comes. Plus I have been suffering from serious writer's block, which is probably added in with a serious dose of laziness, since I have no one to read my stuff, I lose the promptings to write, which is a shame, but... What can you do? I enjoy writing if I think someone is going to read it at the end, but it never happens no matter what I try to do to make it happen. Anyway.
Since I am updating, here's all the crafty things I have been working on since the last time I updated!
- Cage Type:Home
- Voice Type:
bored - Interference Type:Idea of North
I finished Deathly Hallows, and
lillykitten has borrowed it. And she is bringing it back... on pain of death, since I haven't read it again yet. But, I have my other book with me, which I have been trying to get for ages (it came yesterday) so I am happily reading it... for the second time.
Uni is uni. second week back and nothing really has changed massively. lots of academic work, long hours and not much actual proper work. Oh is my life. *wrinkles nose* hopefully something will change at some point.
My birthday was alright, for all those who knew it happened... I got a little angry a couple of times in my birthday week, cause people kept leaving messages for me that asked for things without realising that it was not the week that I wanted to hear anything like that.... *growls*
On the writing front, I have finished writing the 10th chapter of CR, which is satisfying (it means I'm actually writing something for once instead of being attacked by massive writer's block). And I have started playing around with a rewrite of the Tale of Yonder, known to most on here as Seven Rings. So as soon as I can get myself to concentrate properly, I'll continue to rearrange it. I've had some good ideas about how to change it in some parts.. it might be a bit of character culling, but I'm not losing all the good ones.
On the other front - I'm still working on king Tut, and my angel doesn't fit onto the lap frame I managed to get for $10 along with an unfinished design... that peeves me off, and at the moment I'm trying to figure out which parts of my angel I can get away with not stitching!
And that's about it... boring ain't I?
- Cage Type:comp lab
- Voice Type:
bouncy - Interference Type:keyboard keys
Yes. People die in it. No, i'm not telling you who.
Now I'm waiting for my other "new" book (since it's second hand) I've wanted it for absolute ever - well, as I put it to my father, since I first read it. I've bought it and it's coming! (and I was lucky enough to pay less that what it's actually worth!)
- Cage Type:uni lab
- Voice Type:
satisfied - Interference Type:keyboard keys.
--Okay.
--Go to Google.com
--Click on Maps.
--Click on Get Directions.
--From New York, New York
--To Paris, France.
--And read line # 23.
- Voice Type: bouncy
I hate headaches.
- Voice Type:
nauseated
- Cage Type:quiet areas
- Voice Type: bored
- Interference Type:keyboard noises
My life currently is full of Uni... it's my last year and they seem to love to through work at you. I have readings coming out of my ears, and the three days in which I am at uni are the same three days that I go out to either work or meet friends that night. I think overall currently on those three days, I spend a total of about 4 hours at home (doesn't help that i'm housesitting about 15 minutes from my home.)
Housesitting adds a lot of my total fuel bill - it's currently at $40 a week, $20 on Mondays, and $20 on Friday, when monday's petrol has run out. I would do it in one lot, but it means I have a little money just in cause - lol. One good thing about house sitting is the place has air-con, which means a lot in summer. I don't get very hot anymore.
I do have some work, which is good. I work regulary each monday night and friday morning - and the GM of my other job (at the reception centre) has promised me more work meeting his high standards (long story that.) I did four different shifts at the reception centre in the last two weeks, and the last shift I was promised an extra two hours pay, which i'm awaiting with anticipation.
I am currently constructing a wish list - so far it consists almost solely of Dragon Dreams cross stitch charts that I want, but I'm hoping to have a comprehensive list of books, kits, charts, CDs and DVDs, where I just have cross off what I have managed to get or be given in accordance with different celebrations, and i believe then that it will slowly be knocked off.
Talking of cross stitch, I'm going to upload the last pics of my BAPs and WIPs... not many of them are up to date, but this might encourage me to update them. There are two missing, two bookmarks, one which is unfinished and the other which I've posted for an exchange and forgot to take pictures of. The first bookmark is for the same girl, it's in my usual overflowing colour style.
And that's me currently!
- Cage Type:Caffeine.
- Voice Type:
awake - Interference Type:some techno stuff I don't recognise
Три Кольца - для царственных эльфов в небесных шатрах,
Семь - для властительных гномов, гранильщиков в каменном лоне,
Девять - для Девятерых, облеченных в могильный прах,
Одно наденет Владыка на черном троне
В стране по имени Мордор, где распростерся мрак.
Одно Кольцо покорит их, одно соберет их,
Одно их притянет и в черную цепь скует их
В стране по имени Мордор, где распростерся мрак.
3つの指輪は天空の下なるエルフの王たちに
7つは石の館に住うドワーフの長たちに
9つは死め運命(さだめ)の人間の王たちに
1つは闇の王座の冥王に
影横たわるモルドールの国に。
1つの指輪は全でを支配し
1つの指輪は全でを見つけ
1つの指輪は全でを捕らえ
闇の中に閉じ込める
影横たわるモルドールの国に
- Voice Type: awake
- Interference Type:When the World Ends - Dave Matthews Band
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| jorghes goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as The Witch King of Angmar. |
| a58hobbit gives you 18 white evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. |
| ashrayne gives you 16 pink coffee-flavoured nuggets. |
| barbaraz tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy! |
| natalilly gives you 1 white passionfruit-flavoured jawbreakers. |
| ringsandcoffee gives you 13 yellow chocolate-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
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There have been some good things happen, but i'm too tired (another problem today) to go into it.
