happy birthday, fitofpique! i hope your day is wonderful, full of chocolate and alcohol and naked boys. i love you muchly and miss you lots. ♥

( in which i obsess about obsessing, rhapsodize about the piven, and confess to a small problem involving an inability to stop downloading bootlegs from archive.org )

hey, it's thursday! it's the new year! top five list! etc!

top five favorite novels. yours, that is. what are they? all-time favorite novels. graphic novels, children's fiction, anything goes. just talk to me, work is boring.

my list:1. tender is the night, f. scott fitzgerald. god. i read this one in paris, in a bathtub in a hotel in ( Read more... )

i know love-ins aren't as much fun as hatefests, but i thought we'd give it a try this week, okay? immediately contrary to last week's top five of hate and rage, this week's is top five fictional characters you love without bounds. not, of course, necessarily romantic-type love; just the fictional characters, movies or tv or books or whatever, ( Read more... )

dear god, is it thursday again already? would you guys mind terribly if i skipped the pleasantries and went straight to the top five, because i'm exhausted and cranky and sick and basically i want to die, which is no way to feel the day before the boy arrives for the weekend, plus i have a department meeting this morning.

so. top five fictional ( Read more... )

blah blah blah this space is spoiler-free for half-blood prince if you spoil me intentionally or even unintentionally i will kick you in the head and then ban you from commenting in my journal forever i am entirely serious about all of this etc.

now THAT'S out of the way, top five. in honor of hbp coming out on saturday (two! days!), today's top ( Read more... )

Happy happy birthday, sashybaby! I love you bunches and I hope your birthday is wonderful and I will buy you a drink tonight. ♥

In brief, the Cubs game last night. ( good/bad/ugly )

Dear Red Sox fans:

Thanks for not burning Boston down, yo.

Love,
Min

P.S. I heard some outrageous rumor that your team beat the Yankees to win the AL pennant; way to go! *grin*

In other news, there is no other news, but there is a Top 5 topic. Top 5 Authors You Think Everyone Should Read. We've done Top 5 Books You Think Everyone Should Read, ( Read more... )

Nnnnnnngh. Another insanely busy day. I'd forgotten how crazy the fall schedule at work usually is. The spring schedule doesn't compare in any way, shape or form of intensity, and I'm only a week into the fall and I'm already wanting to hide under my desk until December. Not good ( Read more... )

Today's Top 5 list is from bryiarrose. Top 5 Desert Island Books. This is a list of the five books you'd want to have with you if you were trapped on a desert island alone - Rosie says that in this case, it's about readibility, not favorites. I mean, The Stand would go on my list of Top 5 Favorite Novels Ever, but I'll be damned if I'd want to read it on ( Read more... )

This morning, there was a big ol' poster for Troy on the side of my bus, and I very nearly licked Orlando as I waited for the driver to come back from getting coffee. If the bus driver hadn't shown up and forced me to get on the bus so I wouldn't be left behind, I might have.

Anyway.

Today's Top 5 list is from tablesaw, and it's sort of a cross-genre ( Read more... )