Yeah, yeah. Baaa. Just baaaaaa. ;D

( cut to spare the non-sheep amongst you )

Ganked from tigs. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books.

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

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 (unfortunately, ack! phht!)
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 (this is redundant)
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 (this is also redundant)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

There must be some folks who haven't read any, since I've read 40. (That's not counting the two which are redundant. Though really, I think that series titles should be listed individually, not lumped together.) ;)

Or, actually, as seen on mrlnpndrgn's journal. I thought this one was fun. :)

Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid

gakked from resonant8

1. The main article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post it in your own journal.



Hmm, looks like I'm either a pretentious emo band or one featuring a Suicidal Soprano lead. ;D

ETA: Yikes! kylielee1000 says that apparently the user/pass on this meme should not have been made public, so I am deleting the instructions.

To distract myself from thinking about potential car expenses I took the Career Matchmaker quiz that's going around my f-list. Here's ( the list )

belphebe and I were doing this in email and I thought it would make a fun meme.

What kinds of food and/or drink do you have in your desk (or file cabinet, etc.) at work? I have:

1 bag roasted in-shell unsalted peanuts
1 can Planter's cashew pieces (salted)
Home-made 'everything' bagel chips
1 bag Maple-pecan granola
3 envelopes Kikkoman Tofu-Spinach Miso Instant Soup
1 Nissin Cup o' Noodles (Shrimp)
1 pkg Thai Kitchen Lemongrass & Chili Rice-Noodle Soup
3 pkgs Nissin Chicken Ramen
1 pkg Annie Chun's Udon Soup w/Bok Choy & Shiitake Mushrooms
1 can Campbell's Clam Chowder
1 box Vinta multigrain crackers
Small jar Jif peanut butter (smooth)
Upton Tea Oolong (loose)
Upton Tea Imperial Orange Spice (loose)
Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder tea
Yogi Tea: Ginger
Hazelnut Belgian Cafe instant coffee
Instant Vanilla Chai mix

So, I'm all set if I get snowed in for a few days. :D

Yup, this pretty much looks like me. ;D



If you want to make one, go to the Simpson's Movie main page. It's a flash app and if you want to save it you'll have to register, unless you want to do a screen-shot. (gakked from matociquala)

Book Meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


Sebastien paused in the passageway and shook his head, leaning one hand on a cornerpost of the corridor wall. Those, at least, were solid enough to hold his weight, unlike the cloth stretched between them. He was committing the same sin he'd accused Jack of, speculating on small and circumstantial evidence, looking for a monster to explain away what was most likely mere human veniality.

New Amsterdam
-- Elizabeth Bear

This is going around my flist and I had to be a sheep (or at least in sheep's clothing!) It's a fun little Flash animation to promote the upcoming Golden Compass movie. I rather like the Daemon I got, though I am not sure I agree with all of the aspects. It's a little big so it's behind the cut.
( Kellie's Daemon )

I've seen this several places but most recently in brynwulf's journal, and decided to play. Some of these are easy, some, hopefully, aren't. ;D

Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite TV shows. Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks. Have your friends guess the show names.

1. Cult Favorite / Futuristic / Male Bonding
2. Federal Agent / Babe Scientist / Government Coverup
3. Duo / 1960s / Spy
4. Culture Clash / Secret Society / Underworld
5. Military / Alien / Alien Invasion
6. Historical / Flashback / Based On Film
7. Tea / Android / Cat
8. Man With No Name / Regeneration / Eccentricity
9. Based On Novel / Psychiatrist / Investigation
10. Coroner / Forensic Evidence / Character Name In Title

hint: not all of these are American

PS: Can you believe that ReGenesis has NO keywords listed??

I've had a the last few days off from work and have pretty much ignored LJ. (I needed to use up some vacation time or lose it.) I spent a lot of it cleaning house, which badly needed it and I feel pretty happy with the results. Still a lot to be done, but a good start made. theamusedone came to visit on Saturday, and we had a really nice time. Or I did. I hope he did. :D Somehow it turned into Nostalgia TV Time. Since he'd never seen a Man from UNCLE episode I showed him "The Strigas Affair," and he was vastly amused by the pre-Star Trek presence of both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. not to mention Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink!). After that, we went to dinner at the Brasserie 1010, wherein the star of the show was the amazing dessert shared by theamusedone and my kidunit (a flourless chocolate cake accompanied by bourbon-vanilla ice cream topped with Frangelico wafers that were kind of like hazelnut brittle).

After we got home, I inflicted an episode of U.F.O. (link goes to pix from it) on him, and then he mentioned he had never seen any Sapphire & Steel so I got out my boxed-set and showed him the first few chapters of "The Railway Station." Since we didn't have time to watch the entire thing, I ended up sending the set with him (with a warning about the stupid duct-tape and fake-fur 'creature' in "The Creature's Revenge.") Next morning we met ruthless1 for breakfast at the Original House of Pancakes (not to be confused with IHOP) where theamusedone and I both had a Dutch Baby pancake (which is amazing and yummy), the kidunit had their strawberry Belgian waffle which had about half a pound of strawberries on it, and poor ruthless, who had a bad cold, fed her cold with a nice traditional eggs & pancakes breakfast. After breakfast theamusedone left with ruthless to head to Denver and the Tragicially Hip concert.

Yesterday I mainlined my Space: Above & Beyond DVDs. God, that show holds up well. It was such a great show and Fox was SO stupid the say they treated it. I am feeling semi-inspired to write a fixit. Which is amazing since I've had writers block going for months now. Maybe I should try and run with this to see if it jumpstarts my Muse.

And here's a bit pf memeage gakked from juliabk



What does your drawing say about YOU?

The results of your analysis say:

You are driven and ambitious and tend to make radical moves to reach your goals.
You are a direct and forthright person. You like to get to the core of the issue right away, with few signs of hesitation.
You like following the rules and being objective. You are precise and meticulous, and like to evaluate decisions before making them.
You feel morose and are prone to lethargy.

I'm not driven or ambitious at all. The rest though... yeah, sounds like me.

Also in the memeage category, gakked from jidabug, my "Celebrity Lookalikes" ( behind the cut. )

Oh, Mohinder, you're so pretty and so gullible. *sigh* ( cut for spoilers )

In other news, apparently I did not pay as much attention in HS as bethbethbeth did, but I did pay enough attention to get the same phrasing on my results. :)



I wish the test showed where you scored low, because I'd be willing to bet it was math. :)

My excitement for the day, since I already voted {and if you are eligible to and haven't done so yet, GO DO IT!) is that the housemate is treating me to a belated birthday-dinner tonight at Jazzy's Crab Shack which has all-you-can-eat crab on Tuesday nights. I used to get snow crab until I tried the Dungeness, which I now realize is far superior. :)

And now, since I was tagged by cedara I am listing six random facts about myself

1) I have acrophobia and claustrophobia, which makes it really hard to go see an Avs game at the Pepsi Center. :) (The acrophobia I have always had but I developed the claustrophobia-- and a nice case of PTSD-- a couple of years ago after getting 2 un-drugged MRIs.)

2) I only have one lung. The left one was removed when I was 21 because it was dead and gangrenous (a benign tumor had blocked the left main-stem bronchus and killed the lung.)

3) My friends all called me "Mom" even before I really was one.

4) I have been to England twice.

5) I have never lived by myself. I have either lived with family, an SO, or a house-mate my entire life. Someday I would like to try it.

6) I once trained a betta (Fin MacCool) to jump out of the water and take his food off a toothpick. Sadly he was killed when the bookshelf his tank was on randomly fell over and his tank broke. :-(

previous random facts here

I don't tag for memes but if you want to post some random facts about yourself, feel free. :)


image snagged from sithdragn

It's Monday? How did that happen already? Weekends are much too short. It seems like it has just started and bam! its already over. Saturday I drove kidunit, who wasn't feeling quite the thing, down to a con in South Denver which ate up the morning, then we had to rush back through Homecoming Football Traffic to meet ladyra (who has recently moved to the area) for lunch. We had a great time and will have to do that again sometime soon! Only we need to make sure there's not a football game scheduled to screw up traffic. Then I went home and took a two-margarita-inspired nap. :-) Yes, I am a cheap drunk. I spent the rest of the weekend reading the stack of Sue Henry mysteries I borrowed from bluster, in between helping kidunit work on costuming, and doing my laundry and some household stuff. It seems like I didn't do anything. I barely got online at all. So that was my thrilling weekend.

The weather this morning is chilly and rainy, very fall-like. Our yard is full of bright yellow leaves from our trees, and the raccoons are making a lot of noise as they raid our rapidly-withering apples, causing the cats to have conniptions. Despite the evening chill, our back-door neighbors are still having Really Loud Parties TM (as in, we can plainly hear them inside our house, even with all our windows and doors closed.) in their back yard until all hours on a regular basis. I'm sure I am developing a reputation as the neighborhood curmudgeon by screaming "SHUT UP!" at them when they're still out there partying at the top of their lungs at 1am. Am I wrong in thinking that it is courteous to one's neighbors to move one's party indoors, or at least try not to scream, after midnight?

In other news, I am fairly rare:

Gakked from aukestrel. Boy am I boring. :)


My Personality

Neuroticism	21
Extraversion	16
Openness To Experience	85
Agreeableness	29
Conscientiousness	56

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