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[26 Oct 2007|06:40pm] |
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby-Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (in process of reading)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeer
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Choking on a mouth full of lost thoughts
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[03 May 2007|12:03am] |
final: 8am
interview: friday, 11am
work: always
finals: tuesday, 12 and 3.30
fuck i am already done with school in my mind. i dont know how i am going to pull the final out of my ass tomorrow. fuck you, post-modern theory. fuck you especially genetically modified foods. i could give a shit if there are fish genes in my tomato.
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6 thoughts| Choking on a mouth full of lost thoughts
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| bleh. |
[30 Apr 2007|02:30pm] |
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well, i guess i'm essentially in atlanta now. i only have to be in athens for exam time. i will probably end up staying in athens as much as possible though for lack of anything to do/anyone to hang out wiht in atlanta. atlanta is going to suck until i actually move here. i am so tired of living out of my car and working at a job i hate and awkwardly sit around someones apartment trying not to touch anything or fuck up their space. there is nothing welcoming in this city that i am looking forward to right now other than doing stuff at the museum. matt and i are officially sick of seeing each other from my bumming in his space, but since he is the only person i know here to actually call to hang out with its him or no one right now. the whole situation sucks. he doesnt want me around but i dont really have a choice right now toher than to stay at my moms which is not an option if i am to stay sane, or just drive to atlanta for museum, drive back to athens. drive to work the next morning, drive back, drive in, drive back, you get the point. too mcu hdriving. why did i do this to myself? oh rightm becuase im an idiot. fuck. see what atlanta is doing to me? i dont even wantt o hang out with me becuase i am a whining brat here. tell me again why i jsut bought a house here?
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[17 Apr 2007|07:09am] |
Too many things to do, hopefully enough time. Oy. The end of the semester is bad enough and now I am also adding in applying for jobs as well as stressing out over stupid things so that I will forget about my work. Get it together Susannah! No time to worryabout silly things that other people are doing. No sirrrree. Okay. Class go. Taking my laptop today so I can work on papers at every posible moment and during geography. Yep Yep.
This week guys, I am working on a project that requires a lot of mvie watching occupation, so please feel free to call me and when you have timee possibly come over and keep me company while I cut and paste my merzbau.
p.s. Do you ever wonder how stupid people think you are? I do, specifically about people that shouldn't. Although I must say I wish I was a bit more oblivious at times.
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[02 Apr 2007|04:27pm] |
So, in the interest of distracting myself from paper writings, I would like to initiate plans for the summer. Consider this a sign-up list:
1. Bike rides around and about.
2. Picnics (I'm thinking picnics at Oakland Cemetery could be very pleasent).
3. Screen on the Green (but not for the movies it will be incredibly busy for... oh, wait. Okay, scratch that. Make our own screen on the green time. We can easily put a TV and chairs on a front yard and watch whatever we want).
4. Trivia night. Anyone? There are many a trivia to be conquered.
5. Dinner parties of various themes. By theme I am not specifying or limiting the possibility of costumes involved... but I do mean this more in the sense of food themed.
6. Marco Polo.
7. Bike rides to picnics. I have a basket we can put things in, so between that and a backpack or something, we can have that set.
8. Capture the flag. But the most awesome capture the flag possible.
9. Six Flags. I won't ride on the roller coasters but I will definitely hold stuff and walk around.
10. Flea bag express.
11. There is supposedly one of the best thrift stores in the SE in Alabama... day trip worthy... anyone?
12. Outlet mall extravaganza.
13. Boozefest.
14. Aquarium.
Please add to the list as you see fit... I just want to make sure that there is no sitting around doing nothing. Seriously. If left to my own devices this summer I will hermit and not see anyone. Ever. So please, don't let this happen to me this summer. Or to you for that matter. We must organize!
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| someone computer literate? |
[19 Mar 2007|02:22pm] |
So, Bethany's post reminded me about this... I need to make a website for myself that I can include a blog in, but I have no idea how to do this. It wouldn't necessarily be a lj type blog, but more of a essay blog. My internship advisor at the museum recommended that I develop something like that so that I have writings outside of academic papers, and where I can put academic papers... to use as a writing portfolio to submit to grad schools and internships and jobs.
Can anyone, once the semester is at a slower point of course, help me make a website and show me how to update it? Please.
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[06 Mar 2007|01:33pm] |
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My closet just broke. I was sitting quietly in my room studying for a midterm and my closet broke. The shelf fell, taking part of the wall down with it and all of my stuff exploded out of the door. Fantastic.
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| Now this is my kind of class fieldtrip... |
[01 Mar 2007|08:58am] |
Dates March 28 – April 1, 2007
Depart Atlanta @ 12:17 pm Airtran #366
Arrive New York La Guardia @ 2:29 pm
Depart New York La Guardia @ 6:51 pm Airtran #357
Arrive Atlanta @ 9:26 pm
Wed. March 28 Itinerary (subject to change)
Thurs. March 29 Itinerary
Gallery walk Chelsea meet @ 10:30 am
Meet at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
515 West 24th Street (between 10th & 11th Ave.)
Gallery Talk at Paula Cooper Gallery with Steve Henry, Director
Fri. March 30 Itinerary
Whitney Museum 945 Madison Avenue @ 75th Street
morning with Carter Foster, Curator – walk through
Museum of Modern Art afternoon
5pm – 7pm UGA Art Student reception at
George Adams Gallery
525 West 26th Street
Sat. March 31 Itinerary
Dia: Beacon day
Arrive @ Grand Central Station 42nd Street Btw. Park and Lexington Aves @ 9am
MTA Train to Beacon New York departs 9:51 am arrives @ 11:17 am
MTA Train back to the city departs Beacon 4:50 pm arrives @ 6:26 pm
Sun. April 1 Itinerary (subject to change)
Coffee and walk through of show with collector and Foundation Director Mickey Cartin
Variety Day – The Met, Cooper Hewitt (National Design Museum), PS1, Long Island City, The Guggenheim etc.
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[20 Feb 2007|03:08pm] |
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So, I'm sure some of you guys have always wanted to live with my dear sweet sweet Navidlings. Well, now is your chance. My lease is good through August, but (un)fortunately do not need to stay in Athens that long. If any of you are looking for a place to stay over the summer please let me know. And let me know first! The house is very cute and very good location, 15 minute walk from downtown and campus, 5 driving or on the bus. You will get to listen to Seinfeld and Navid's gigglings every day! And the other dear sweet sweet roommate, Miss Whitney is a delight and remembers to run the dishwasher and makes cookies a lot. Anyways, if you might be interested, please let me know.
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[07 Feb 2007|11:32am] |
I hate whining about trite things on livejournal, but that's what its for, right?
Rhetorical: Why is it that everything always seems to fall to shit at inopportune times?
I think I may move. Atlanta gives me nothing but grief. I won't ever make money anyways so I might as well go out starving with a bang. I'm thinking of whoring myself on the corner of A and 4th with nothing to keep me warm but a bottle of E.W. and the dirty sheets from the room a few doors down where I made my crack money for the day. UGA produces a fine student body. That's for sure. Just promise me when the have to cut my feet off from frostbite in early April that I get a fancy wheelchair. Not the one with the bum wheel so that I'm constantly just moving in a counter-clockwise circle.
Seriously though. The only thing I have there is a paycheck and a resume. At least if I move somewhere else and don't have any friends it will be because I don't have a choice. Now I just keep going to do things to keep up the guise of wanting to be social and not sit around an apartment all day sleeping. Really though, I just want to find my pillow that I fucking lost, have several spare blankets and sleep through the next few years. Then I can wake up and can have skipped the really shitty part of life and go right to the part where death is imminent so that I can go back to sleep and miss that as well.
So, that's where things are at right now.
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[01 Feb 2007|08:47am] |
Bowling is great. We need to do that again. Lefties vs. the others will recommence soon!
OK, SPring Break Advert:
Laura Chance and I are embarking on a road trip that will go to DC for an afternoon and a night, Providence to see my lady Phlash, and then to New York for a couple-few days. Money has not yet been completely figured out, but we do have places to stay everywhere. The bulk of the expense will be from gas. Please inquire if interested. (NOTE: If I would kill you after being in a car with me for several hours or vice versa, please refrain from responding).
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[26 Jan 2007|04:13pm] |
I am a fucking idiot. Opening for the Cortona show that I thought was Friday is actually Saturday. At 3pm. So, if I asked you if you wanted to come and you said yes, know that times have changed to Saturday at 3pm.
We're going to start drinking early. Early bird special. I like early bird specials a lot. Especiallly when it is a happy hour early bird special. Isn't happy hour already an early bird special? I'm confusing myself. I want to go drink right now instead of going to class. MMMMM, booze. Not an alcoholic says I. Am not!
I think I may have to forgo Blame Games tonight becuase driving between Athens and Atlanta four times in four days sounds fucking miserable. Sorry Wiggles.
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| Sweet sweet mother of mercy.... |
[12 Jan 2007|05:19pm] |
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So, I arrived at the gym today right as Marcus* was walking out. I almost keeled over. He was all clad in a white and baby blue velvelor track suit. oh yes. I think it may have been j-lo brand. I just thought you should know.
Also, at the gym today I discovered a new machine called the Treadlesmater. Depending on the resistant level you set it you get certain inspirational messages, like "MAX TREADLES* GO*" which runs across the machine like a banner. Anyways it was exciting.
*When you join the YMCA for the first year you get a free personal trainer. Mine is Marcus, a 6'5, 295lbs black man. Amazing, he is.
*How can you not love the word treadles. I kept adjusting the machine so it would say different things about what the treadles were doing.
*Didn't actually say "GO" but I liked to pretend it did.
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