That's because you don't have a Prada bag!
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (hated it)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine fuck yes
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Total of 35. Thank goodness my parents were hippies ;o)
Training Day 3/Houston Day 4:
Last day of class today was kind of ridiculous. The instructors continued to be not instructive, and people continued to be ridiculously stupid which was to be expected.
Afterwards, I came back and changed, then went to The Galleria with Tonya, Joseph, and Tonya's roommate (whose name I can't remember). It was ridiculous. The line from this is in reference to tonight when I held in my hands a $2k Prada Bag, the most expensive thing I've ever held in my life. There's a Gucci, a Prada, an A|X, a Louis Vuitton-- when I say rich people's mall, I mean rich people's mall...
We decided that The Cheesecake Factory was in order for dinner and Tonya treated all of us! I had herb encrusted salmon with sauteed asparagus in a lemon cream sauce, mashed garlic potatoes, and "Steak Diane" which were really nice little steak medallions with peppercorns and sauteed mushrooms and onions.
God it was amazing.
Then I had lemon raspberry cheesecake for dessert.
I need to take a shower but I think I'm too lazy... hm.
I'm also curious as to why more of Faulkner's books didn't make an appearance on that list. *ponders*
Taking a shower tomorrow afternoon, I think. I'm pooped and I have to be at training at 7a tomorrow morning. I did tell them, though, that I can't understand a damn word Julia says and I may need to trade classes with someone... and they're very nice about it, so hopefully being in a smaller classroom will help, but since I doubt it, at least they're not like, "You got to be flexible, man!"
My job is termed an ASA - Airline Service Agent - or CSA - Customer Service Agent. Job duties range from booking flights and manning the ticket counter to ensure proper flight check in and baggage check, to assisting with boarding the plane (including scanning boarding passes, positioning the jetway ramp, and communicating with inflight crew), to loading the baggage on to the planes, cleaning the planes, flushing the lavatories, marshalling the planes for takeoff and landing/parking, and ensuring that everything is taken care of on part of the airport crew before the plane continues to its next destination.
It doesn't really seem like a lot at first, but we are essentially just as responsible for the safety of every single person in the air as TSA is. If we miss something in a baggage claim, what we qualify as a dangerous good, reactions can occur that will take the aircraft down. If we don't properly load the baggage, we can damage the plane or cause injury/death of crew and passengers.
Basically, for being a simple "agent" the airline puts pretty much all their trust in us. We also work for CAL, Continental Airline, in a sense-- we're qualified to work both ExpressJet aircraft as well as CAL (nicknamed Big Cal) aircraft.
We also watched a video of a cat obsessed with flushing a toilet.