I've finished reading The Hunger Games Trilogy, and I liked it overall (also cried like a baby at the end of the last book). I heard its plot was similar to Battle Royale, so I picked it up from my library (and ha, it took so long for the person who had it last to return it, I waited almost a month after its due-date before it was available!). It ( Read more... )

When the highlight of your day is JURY DUTY, there is something wrong with your day, y/y ( Read more... )

YAY being done with the quarter! Winter quarters always seem to be the worst for me, even if I had great classes ( Read more... )

Thank goodness for holidays on Mondays! A 4-day weekend is highly appreciated (since I don't have class on Fridays).

I downloaded the free trial of Office 2007, and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It is a pain to download, though. You have to activate the product via the internet or convert to the paid product, but when I was trying ( Read more... )

Now that I'm done with my first day of classes...I want it to be summer again. Ah well. At least 2 out of 3 of my classes are interesting. One of them because the subject matter is interesting (Witch Trials) and the other because....well, I'm 95% certain the professor is British (his accent was kinda hard to pin down) and because we got stuck in ( Read more... )

I'm still not recovered from the blow EUReKA gave me last Tuesday, but...moving onwards, I guess.

My sister and I went out on a shopping spree (of the minor sort) today. Went to Barnes and Noble (where they didn't have the newest issue of Buffy, yet again) and got Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens. I've heard good things about it, and ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:
17. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
18. Cast in Shadows by Michelle Sagara

I kinda liked Cast in Shadows, and I'll probably read the rest of the books in that series. I'm not head-over-heels crazy about it not like Eureka but I won't labor over reading it, at least.

Also happy for ( Read more... )

So, as a little souvenir for myself from Rome, I bought a Venetian mask magnet. If you don't know what one looks like, it's like this, though Doctor Whovians might be more familiar with these villains. Nikki, if you'd like one to adorn your own room, let me know. Or if you'd much rather keep the villain away. And of course the offer is extended ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:
( What I Have Read )

I went and tried this little pizza place called "Valarmos" which I'd read about in the UW's student newspaper. Supposedly their calzones are "the size of a football ( Read more... )