Now She's A Little Boy In Spain

Today is a day of profound, joyous relief. The angels wept with glee.

Oh, and someday I plan to direct a film version of The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Zac Efron in the title role.

Also, I think I'd like to watch Mean Girls with Toni Morrison as my companion.

Cassandra: how come growing up we never went as Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn for Halloween? This needs to be rectified the next time we're both in town for H-Day.

Wolfman, y'all. WOLFMAN.

JESUS CHRIST I JUST ACCIDENTALLY DUNKED MY CELL PHONE INTO A CUP OF WATER BY MY BEDSIDE. Now I have to stay up until my ten o'clock class because that thing was my only source of time. IT'S SIX-THIRTY!

Idiot scholarship, anyone?

My friend Jamie's nice. She gave me a granola bar. What have you done lately for me, hmmmm?

A new term is upon me, and you know what I'm gonna do? Finally apply for a job. That's right, a job. Where, you ask? None of your damn business. But it's the writing center. Yep.

I'm getting crumbs everywhere.

I thought Coraline was pretty awesome. Wish I could see it in 3-D. Oh, and it takes place in Ashland! How rad is that?

Ummm....yes. Faustus essay, you say? Bah. Make me.

I kind of feel like I should be studying, but I also kind of feel like I've got the gist of the important parts. Sort of. Kind of. Mmmmmaybe.

I'm going to fail everything, aren't I? A drugged-up hooker, that's what I'll be, selling my faded loveliness for some "magic beans," if you get my drift, what.

I'm really getting sick of my constant optimism. Really, doesn't it make you want to vomit?

Talking about vomit is fun.

Hello.

I just got back from the movie Role Models and I really liked it, actually, which surprised me. You have to wait a while for it to get good, but it's worth it. I definitely think anyone (Cassandra and Jason) would enjoy it.

As I told Megan earlier tonight, I think I know less German now than I did last year. Is that a bad thing?

Oh, and Dad: I was able to watch my netflix today (whichtotallywasn'tDarkShadowsexceptitwas), so...maybe I don't need a new computer?

But then again, why won't my Simpsons DVDs work?! Meeehhhhh!

Oh, and I also went to a play put on by the theater department yesterday. It was student preview night (my friend from the theater department invited me so she could get extra credit--bring a friend and get ten points, yadda yadda), and ohhhh the theater professor is over-the-top. Yarrgh. But the play (Ring Round The Moon) was made of awesome, and it made me sigh to think back to times when I once played Little John in front of all my classmates.

Then I shuddered a little.

But then I remember they've been having brownies in the cafeteria lately and then I feel a little better.

Which basically includes Cassandra and Andrew. Hi!

**The Big Read is an NEA program designed to encourage community reading initiatives. They've come up with this list of the top 100 books, using criteria they don't explain, and they estimate that the average adult has only read 6 of these. So, we are encouraged to:


* Look at the list and bold those we HAVE read

* Italicize those we INTEND to read

* Underline the books we LOVE

* Reprint this list in our own blogs



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 (I read the first three. And that’s what I did.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Plan to this summer)
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 (I read bits and pieces of it, I just have never found the time to really READ it, y’know?)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (Durr, I sawr th' moovie.flYup, me too. Young Laurence Olivier=Sexy, sexy British export)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (IT GOT ME THROUGH SOME ROUGH TIMES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, OKAY?!)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Uh…well…one of these days….)
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 (Most of it, anyways)
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(Lo. Lee. Ta.)
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 (Again…one of these days)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Read a great deal, but quit halfway through. Why? Because that’s the way I roll, baby)
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(For those of you not in the know, this is where my scarla_ohorror name comes from. Fancy, non?)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Oh, and I'm home. Call me and bring me candy.

Maybe.

After almost a week's worth of unbearable, high nineties heat, I woke up this morning to the most beautiful sound in the world: a heavy rainfall. Oh, it's been marvelous! Rain and wind and everything special.

As for school, the reading and writing assignments are friggin' endless. It's actually spooky how close it is to the end of the term, seeing as I've barely (and I mean barely) started my term project for Autobiography and I have ajabillion essays due soon as well. Lord a'mercy. Thinking's hard!!!

Oh, and it's now official: ALL my friends are in relationships except for me. Yay for crippling depression! (FYI: Any comments reassuring me that I'm a beautiful sex goddess who merely intimidates men with my splendor are welcome. Any telling me that it's all my fault because I'm an antisocial creep are not so welcome)

Anybody else really disappointed with House's season finale? I won't give any plot details away, but the whole thing was too...I dunno...soap opera/unnecessarily depressing/trying too hard to be artsy for my tastes. My friend's girlfriend actually scolded me for making gagging noises during the last scene, telling me it was all genuinely heart-tugging. Yeah, whatevs. Call me Insensitive Inga if you like.

Or not. I'm easy.

Guess what, guess what? Bill and Chelsea Clinton just spoke at my little school. My little school that could, apparently.

They were both pretty rad, and even though I know as much about politics as a turnip, I thought ol' Billy-boy made some sound arguments for ol' wifey-poo. I really like writing "ol'."

Sadly, I wasn't able to seduce any attractive, shifty-eyed secret service men, seeing as I was too far away. There was a cop nearby who looked like Kevin Smith, though. He was very hard-faced and manly for someone who looked like Kevin Smith.

Also sadly, my camera's turned against me so I got zero pictures. Butimnotmakingitupiswear! Apparently Oregon is pretty Obama heavy, so Hillary's doing everything she can to woo us. Not too long ago she visited Ashland herself, and just a few days ago Sean Atin (apparently of Lord of the Rings fame--a hobbit, I'm thinking?) also stopped by SOU to promote her. Crazy, non?

Well, that's been the most exciting thing to happen this weekend. The rest of the time I've been steadily melting in the oppressive, oppressive Ashland heat. Which leads me to the startling conclusion of tonight's episode: I'sa gonna go take a shower!

My Personality

Neuroticism	99
Extraversion	1
Openness to Experience	41
Agreeableness	63
Conscientiousness	44

You feel enraged when things do not go your way. You are sensitive about being treated fairly and feel resentful and bitter if you think you are being cheated, however you are sensitive about what others think of you. Your concern about rejection and ridicule cause you to feel shy and uncomfortable around others. You are easily embarrassed and often feel ashamed. Your fears that others will criticize or make fun of you are exaggerated and unrealistic, but your awkwardness and discomfort may make these fears a self-fulfilling prophecy. People generally perceive you as distant and reserved, and you do not usually reach out to others. You prefer familiar routines and for things to stay the same. You can tend to feel uncomfortable with change. You do not like to claim that you are better than other people, and generally shy from talking yourself up, however you believe that a certain amount of deception in social relationships is necessary. You are guarded in new relationships and less willing to openly reveal the whole truth about yourself. You take your time when making decisions and will deliberate on all the possible consequences and alternatives.

Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report. The best Buying Pet Gifts.

Man, it's so weird that it was reeeeeally snowing last night and sticking and everything, yet today: not a trace. Apocalypse WOW, if you know what I mean. Do you? I don't.

I am very sick of homework.

I was sittin' there, hoping a certain boy wouldn't show up (very awkward), when three older gentlemen walked by, and:

"I don't want to be distracted from the purity of my prayers by exposure to the opposite sex."

So said one of the gentlemen to his companions. Why do I bring this up? Well, why not. It's so perfect. What a wacky, wacky world.

Thank you, friends.

This time it's iTunes style! Hooray for life!

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How you like me now?!

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You scored as Belle Dancing furniture, singing spoons, and a man who needs a serious haircut - sound familiar? Well it should! Belle was a very independent spirit with alot on her mind, much like you are! But in life, there is a needed balance - learn when to speak your mind, and when to hold it back. Sometimes offending someone isn't the best way to go! Belle 92% Alice 83% Violet 83% Cinderella 79% Jane 67% Snow White 67% Megara 63% Tinkerbell 63% Pocahontas 63% Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) 63% Jasmine 58% Ariel 50% Mulan 46% Esmerelda 13%

Princess, whee. I'm tired. So why don't I go to bed?


Who the hell is Violet, by the way?

WHY THE HELL IS IT SNOWING?!

Here's the one movie no one got:

12. Barry Lyndon

Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten it either. Not a movie well known for its quotes. I love it, but I wish now I had chosen something like Drop Dead Gorgeous or one of the Kill Bills. Say lah vee.

In honor of the Oscars, I guess. And in honor of me not working on two papers I have due next week. Yay!
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

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So, kind of a weird story. I don't know if it's like this at other dorms, but at SOU you're pretty much connected to everyone else's iTunes. Well, last term I started listening to this one person's stuff and found they had a bunch of DeVotchka, a band I'm pretty partial to. However, I don't have a lot of their stuff, and always wanted to hear their version of "Dark Eyes", on their CD Super Melodrama. So I click on this song but...hear a completely different song. "Dark Eyes" played right after--but under the title of the next song. The thing is...I really, really liked the song that played when "Dark Eyes" should have. When I went on to iTunes, however, I COULD NOT find it. I played all the 30 sec. clips on Super Melodrama and everywhere else, but nadda. I tried putting in snatches of lyrics I could remember on Google, but nothin' doin'. Then I thought maybe it wasn't DeVotchka, even though it sounded exactly like them, so I put in the lyrics sans DeVotchka's name. Still nothing. Then that person's iTunes account where I first heard that song disappeared. And it was gone.

So, my question to any DeVotcka fans: do you know of a song of theirs that starts off with whistling? One line of the chorus kind of goes, "And I can see you with your rosary (or what sounds like rosaria. I tried both in my searches)." Other lyrics I can remember are, "And there are fabrics that weave their patterns and push you further away from me. And all that I stand for, illusions of grandeur, are haunted by it (or to that effect)." And if any of you have heard this song, is it actually by another group?

As much as I like DeVotchka, I don't really feel like joining a Livejournal community in order to just ask this question in a post, nor do I feel like signing up to go on the message boards on their website. So I leave it to you, the viewer, to help me. Thanks. Yay!

Ummm...anyways, I've been watching Absolutely Fabulous on YouTube and writing bits and pieces of my British Lit essay all weekend. And that's it. Yes, I am in my pajamas.

Things I love: Snow. In particular, snow days. I only got up about an hour ago. Tee hee!

Things I hate: Verizon. Honestly, I'd love one complete phone call, especially with a friend I haven't spoken to for about a month, without it cutting out. Pretty please? Thanks.