Happy birthday angelahartwick!!! Love to my SS!!!

Here are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might (or plan to) read. Leave the rest.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

I had to update right now because something stupid just happened. My roommate and I took the trash out together about 20 minutes ago and we were discussing how we lock the door. We have a deadbolt and a doorknob lock. She said she only likes to lock the top one so she doesn't forget her keys. I thought that it was funny that she would lock herself out. 5 minutes ago I came back from running my errands and realized I had forgotten MY keys. HAHAHA I locked myself out of the damn building!

Before I can do anything else even remotely stupid, I'm going to nap!

I feel like crap. I haven't slept in like 3 nights. I'm cranky and tired!

School got a lot harder this semester. THREE classes with the man that can't decide if he likes me or not. I had no choice. I needed three credits and his was the only course that was remotely related to my degree.

phantasmamorgan is ignoring me again :-p. If you see this, will you call me tonight?

I feel like everyone is hurting so much right now. My best friend from home may be in the hospital... My spirit sister has a broken toe... My nephew is moving out of his parents' house because they're fucking him up. My mom needs help and no one will do anything but me and I'm 300 fucking miles away.

I keep dreaming about my Grandma... For those who don't know, she passed away from pancreatic cancer on August 15, 2004. I never got over it. There's a whole long story to it... It's really getting to me again.

bibliophile0614, thanks for putting up with me every night. It's nice to have intelligent conversation... I love talking books :-).

Oh... anyone who went to Hartwick, Kim told me last night that Claude from the library died! Dan, did you know he was sick?

OK this post makes no sense... I'm going to go eat my lunch and go to organic chem...

msbluejayway I promise to have your letter posted by this weekend.

I totally just sobbed my eyes out again! This movie is absolutely amazing. The ending is so sad but the heart of the story is so important... I love it when people can get along and not hate each other... Well... that's enough for now or I'm going to start crying again!

Oh actually wait... angelahartwick, I have a special b-day present for you but it's a matter of me getting enough time to get it together. If it's late, it just means I didn't get time to finish it! It will be coming, though :-D.

I'd already seen this movie once before but I just watched it again today. I cried my eyes out because it was so beautiful. Having a mental illness makes me able to sort of relate to John Nash but I'm not schizophrenic so it's not the same...

Alicia Nash is such a strong woman. She stood by her husband through it all. A lot of people couldn't handle the same situation in their own lives. The fact that this is a true story reinforces my notion that true love does exist. It's so amazing...

The story makes me think that anything is possible. He overcame his illness to live "normally" and function as a human. It's a really hard illness to live with. I really admire him. His life story sort of gives me inspiration to deal with my own issues and come out on top...

I just had to write about how I feel about this movie... I literally just finished it 3 minutes ago... I sobbed my eyes out, too. Typical Jess reaction :-p.

$177.25 for books in ONE class! I repeat, ONE class! She recommended one book and I bought that, too. Technically I could have gotten out of there spending only $137.25 but still... that's A LOT for one book! They didn't have any used ones. Ticks me off.

This semester Wednesdays are going to be hell on earth. I will literally have class from 10:20 to 4:10. I have to see the professor that gave me such a hard time last semester twice on Wednesdays. I have to prove him wrong. I have to show him I'm capable. It's my goal for the semester. He's going to take back everything bad he's ever said about me!

In other news, the useless partner from last semester is having trouble back in India. Family trouble or something. I don't think he's coming back. I feel kind of guilty about getting him in trouble last semester but hey, I'm not here to do his work for him!

My roommate and I are going to have no lives this semester. She's taking 18 credits (6 classes) and I'm taking 16 credits (6 classes, too, just messed up...). I'm not so excited.

I'm going to be a woman engineer in the US... A gay one at that... Haha and I thought my life was hard before. But you know what? I think women have every right to be whatever they want to be! I'm turning into a bit of a feminist. I'm not going to shave my head and start protesting round the clock or anything extreme like that but I am sure as hell going to put up a fight to be what I want when I "grow up".

I see one of my favorite professors have bouts of what I think is depression. You know how you can just see it on someone's face sometimes... She's an engineer. It's hard. She's one of two female engineering professors on campus. Hmm... I guess I kind of look up to her. She did what I want to do and she did it back when it was even harder for a woman to succeed.

Well... it's the first day of class and I'm in a mood! This is no good. Here's to hoping my second class goes better than the first! :-P

Supposedly if you've seen over 90, you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. Put your score in header and repost.

( Snagged from Vincy )