I just logged in to my Shelfari account for the first time in weeks. My "currently reading" shelf included five books that I had put on there months ago, and that I haven't touched in forever ( Read more... )

I'm still here, and okay, and all that. It's just been difficult--having to share a not-in-great-condition computer with Matt--to have time to update. I just went and read through a few hundred back entries on here because I hadn't logged in to LJ for probably a week. So I'm feeling kind of O.O at the present time. I also feel pretty inept at ( Read more... )

Oddly, this song reminds me a lot of the book I just finished reading tonight (We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver). I like when things intersect and relate to each other in my life like that.

well, I've seen all there is to see ( Read more... )

Over the next few days:- I am driving back to New York ( Read more... )

Firstly, thank you everybody for the happy birthdays that I mercilessly teased out of you! ;D And thanks to belenen for the v-gift! *hugs entire friends list ( Read more... )

Spring seems to have (temporarily?) passed us by, and it's been very warm here over the past several days. I'm elated to be able to go outside wearing just a t-shirt again. The other day I opened my black car, which had been sitting in the hot sun, and the heat simply poured out of it. It was so hot when I got in it, but as I told my mom: I wasn't ( Read more... )

I almost prefer buying books used now ( Read more... )

20. My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki -

This was a gift from phuzzydee from about a million years ago, so I figured it was about time I read it. Hah. :) (Thanks, Dee!)

It's been a little while since I read this, but basically: Jane Takagi-Little, a Japanese-American woman, is invited by a Japanese television station to work on their series My American ( Read more... )

14. Life of Pi by Yann Martel -

Piscine Molotor Patel (later referred to as Pi, after much taunting from his schoolmates because of his name; calling him "Pissing" Patel and things like that) is a boy growing up in India. He becomes Christian, Muslim, and Hindu. His father owns a zoo. Eventually, the family decides to emigrate to Canada, and they ( Read more... )

- I owe TC3 a whole mess of money. Reslife does not owe me my security deposit back, after a week of phone calls redirected to various offices and no real answers from anybody. Apparently when I quit going to classes, $800-some of my financial aid money (grants) was rescinded. They applied the $400 security deposit to my balance, and I owe them the ( Read more... )