The Western Canon According to Jane Haddam, condensed and for my own reference:

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics - trans. W. D. Ross - begun 9/31/09
Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species
Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations
The Holy Bible (King James version?); esp. Job, Genesis, the Gospel according to St. John, the Revelation of St. John the Divine ( Read more... )

Read this link and tell me, who wants to go to Portland tomorrow evening?

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I have a big presentation on Wednesday for which I haven't even started reading my secondary sources, but this is totally more important.

Greek quiz today could have gone better, but I feel... moderately confident. The only things I'm certain I missed are two words whose meanings I forgot completely, but I managed to translate the sentences around them pretty well, so my hopes are still Olympia Vernon ( Read more... )

So, I swear I'd said that I was coming home Monday. Huh ( Read more... )

By which we mean, traffic is evil. Yes, they closed off the bridge to Seattle today for Seafair stuff, which we didn't quite realize until we got on the highway, and after which it took us a half an hour to get to the nearest exit, turn around, and get back to Bellevue. Of course, then we went to Crossroads (Half Price Books and other such tasty ( Read more... )

Have arrived safely in Ashland. I finished both Never Cry Wolf and Fire Sea in the car, and then listened to music and napped for the rest of the trip.

By the way, EVERYONE should read Never Cry Wolf. It's witty, poignant, emotional, engaging, and a million other things, not to mention environmental and full of damn fine writing. It's a fairly ( Read more... )

Brought seven grocery bags full of books to Half Price Books... all of them were Grandma's, but Mom and I have both gone through her shelves to make sure we keep things that are important. Anyway. Got twenty-six dollars for them, and promptly blew it on the DMG II (apparently a supplement for the original DMG, with extra villains and NPCs and town ( Read more... )

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Brenton and Jenny and I went to the Tudor Rose, an adorable little British tea place, for breakfast/lunch/whatever meal it was. I had tea and shepherd's pie and it was delicious, and afterwards we went to an awesome used bookstore where I spent almost thirty dollars on several books, including but not limited to: Mutiny On The Bounty (1943), The ( Read more... )

Knocked one more person of my list-o'-people-to-buy-for today. Arg. I'm unproductive in every way-shape-and-form except Shadow of the Colossus (seven colossi in five days/three hours of game play plus a whole bunch of wandering around and exploring the map, heh ( Read more... )