Okay, I suck, because I haven't been reading my flist. I have an excuse, really! I was behind on Supernatural, and I didn't want to get spoiled, and then by the time I caught up Star Trek had come out, and I didn't want to get spoiled on that either. And now that I've seen Star Trek I've got a lot of catching up to do.

So instead of that I'm going to do a meme. \o/

"Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."

1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Too bad he's become such a sucky writer lately.)
2. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
6. Stranger at the Gate by Mel White
7. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (First book I can remember not being able to put down.)
9. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (Probably the first book I read about the Holocaust.)
10. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
11. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
12. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
13. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
14. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (My mother used to read this to us when I was little.)
15. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (I think this was my first chapter book. I remember reading it while I was in kindergarten, anyway.)

If you want, consider yourself tagged! I'd like to see other people's lists, and I'm going to go get caught up right now so I actually *will* see them.

Via Extratextuals, The Alphabet Meme: "the basic point is to list your best/favorite film of each letter of the alphabet." And I thought, "Hey, that sounds like fun! I'm only at work! What else could I possibly have to do?" (The answer to that last question is "plenty", but we all know LJ is more important than work. Right?) Okay, so here's mine:

Airplane!

Big Lebowski, The

Christmas Vacation

Die Hard

Ever After

Fight Club

Get Smart

Hot Fuzz

Ice Age

Juno

Kinsey (I never actually saw this movie. I just loved how much the religious Right got worked up over it. And I can't find a movie starting with K that I've both seen and liked.)

Little Miss Sunshine

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Never Been Kissed

Office Space

Princess Bride, The

Quest of the Delta Knights (A la Mystery Science Theater. Q is hard, y'all.)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sting, The

Thelma & Louise

U-571 (U is hard too.)

V for Vendetta

Wilby Wonderful

X-Men

You've Got Mail (I haven't seen this in years, and I probably wouldn't like it if I saw it now. But I loved it then, so it totally counts! Nyah!)

Zardoz (I don't appear to have seen *any* movies that start with Z, so I'm going to go with Zardoz because it sounds so wonderfully cracked out.)

If you so desire, consider yourself tagged!

Before you go "listing ten random songs from your music library is a stupid exercise", I agree. I think it's boring. (And I'm mainly doing this because I don't have new cat pictures.) So I'm going to actually upload the songs. That way you can download them, hopefully making it marginally less boring. I'm also going to use the new iTunes Genius thingy, which is supposed to give me songs that are "similar" to the selected song, and see what it comes up with. Without further ado:

Starting on random, we get Nirvana - Milk It

1. Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Don't Forget Me
3. The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away (LOVE LOVE LOVE this song! It's just so RANDOM that it can't help but be awesome.)
4. The Clash - Tommy Gun
5. David Bowie - It Ain't Easy (Part of one of my absolute favorite albums. I could listen to Ziggy Stardust all the way through over and over. Could, and have.)
6. Puddle of Mudd - Bring Me Down (Don't judge me for owning Puddle of Mudd songs. Please? I liked, um, whatever that one was--Blurry. So I bought the damn CD, because this was before you could buy individual mp3s, and I hadn't figured out how to get mp3s any other way. For lo, I was new to the ways of the Internets, and had not yet discovered Napster or Kazaa. And I still love She Hates Me, just because I tend to love songs with the word "fuck" in them. Because I'm twelve.)
7. The Cure - Sinking
8. Mazzy Star - Bells Ring (Um...where the hell did this one come from?)
9. Poe - Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By A Go-Go) (Another one I absolutely love. "You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being." This concept helped me get past times when I was trying to understand why some people in my life had acted the way they acted. I had a roommate in college who was just hands-down crazy, but I kept trying to reason with her and get along. I hadn't yet learned that some people you just can't use logic on, and it's not your fault.)
10. Godsmack - Serenity

Huh. So this is interesting. I can't figure out how Genius actually works. But we got some interesting choices, anyway. And I'm ashamed to say that several of these songs I'd never actually listened to before.

I hope it was good for you too. *coughs*

When you see this, post a quote from Stargate Atlantis in your journal.

John: "I shot him....In the leg!"

*sighs* Goodbye, Atlantis. We still love you, even if TPTB think you're too old.

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

1. Maude Lebowski, The Big Lebowski
I've always had a little trouble with Maude. I like her, but I can't tell if the filmmakers intended her to be a real character or just a strawfeminist. She does some very strawfeminist things--saying "vagina" a lot to try to make the Dude uncomfortable, for example. But I think she really is a strong woman who's living her life the way she wants to. She likes to shock people, she doesn't care what people think, and she's not afraid to do things on her own (have a baby, for example). (BTW, my iPod is named "Maude".)

2. Mr. Universe, Serenity
The whole thing with his Real Doll bride is creepy. Other than that, though--Mr. Universe is funny. "Guy killed me, Mal! Killed me with a sword! How weird is that?" He betrays the crew of Serenity, but I think that's because his true allegiance is actually to "The Signal". He'd do anything to keep that from being shut down. I was a little annoyed when Joss introduced this character who had never even been mentioned in the series and acted like everyone knew who he was and he was a huge deal. But this is getting into Things About Serenity That Annoy Me.

3. Marissa Cooper, The O.C.
HATE. Oh my god so much hate. I only watched the first couple seasons of The O.C., so I never saw the part with her lesbian experiment or anything like that. But from the part I did see, Marissa is so shallow she'd drown in a puddle, she's a complete idiot, and she's bent on making everything about her to the point of ruining the lives of people she claims to care about. She was always more trouble than Ryan ever was.

4. Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Mal is hot. And I love how he loves his ship and the stars and can speak so poetically about them when he's in the right mood. But. He's *really* annoying, what with the whole, "you're part of my crew, no wait, now you're not, oh, now you are again", etc.

5. Moist von Lipvig, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Moist is so freaking awesome. I love his view of being a scam artist, how it's about getting someone to do what you want them to do while making them think it was their idea. And he realises, after Vetinari gets to him, that you can do lawful things the same way, which is when he really puts his heart and soul into the post office. I also love how he has all these weird people around him, and he knows they're weird, and he just goes with it, playing to their strengths and accepting their idiosyncrasies.

I think this is a different list than the last time I did a "which of these books have you read" meme, so I'm totally going to do this one too! Yay me!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

[Since there's no instructions on what to do for books you HATED WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS, I will be adding comments in brackets to indicate those. Because I can't shut up on the internets. It's one of my many adorable traits.]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [Just--yecch. I didn't completely *hate* this one, but it was close. To this day I remember very little about it at all. I think it was too gorram boring to make any lasting impression on my synapses.]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [Yes, this would be one I hate with the heat of a thousand burning suns. I *get* that it's supposed to convey the hopelessness and everyday bleakness of the Dust Bowl, blah blah blah, but--it's all hopeless and bleak! And there's a whole CHAPTER about a TURTLE that's supposed to be SYMBOLIC but who CARES, and then there's a traumatizing scene involving the breast-feeding of a grown man, and then they all die. I guess. I was unclear on that point, but by then my ENTIRE WILL TO LIVE had been sapped, so trying to figure out the ending was of somewhat lesser importance. Imagine my hate when I discovered that picara DIDN'T READ this book and still got through the class. To think I could have gotten away with not reading it! *glares at picara*]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [I read 3/4ths of this and COULD NOT FINISH IT it annoyed me that much. I never do that. By the time I'm that far along, I finish it no matter how much is sucks. I think stream of consciousness is just really not for me.]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [Oh dear god. This would be another one I read ALL THE WAY THROUGH for my World History class in college, then discovered that I was probably the only one in class who had actually read it. I spent an ENTIRE WEEKEND being bored to tears by the plight of...mine workers? I think? somewhere I don't remember and never figuring out what it had to do with the ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE CLASS.]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [Okay. etumon, if she decides to comment, may show up and attempt to argue that this is actually a good book. She is WRONG, WRONG, SO VERY WRONG. This book is TORTURE in the form of symbolic windows and heads on spikes and RIVETS, oh god the rivets! Quitting now before I get caught in a flashback and never return.]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I need an excuse to play music, since B is listening to an interview Gillian Anderson did with David Letterman last night and it's really annoying me. Yes, our offices are in different rooms now. I can still fucking hear it, and I'm going to murder him pretty soon if I don't find something to drown it out. So I'm doing the five most embarrassing songs meme, which I got from Hugo Schwyzer. The rules? Very simple: list the five most embarrassing songs you’ve got on your Ipod.

I have a bunch of truly embarrassing songs on there solely because of Mystery Science Theater. So I think I will do two lists. The first list will be embarrassing songs that are on there because I actually like them:

1. Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight (I...don't even know. I used to love this song when I was a teenager and thought Lois and Clark were SO IN LOVE and should get MARRIED and live happily ever AFTER ZOMG. And, um, I still like it. Go me.)
2. Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? ("Heather Killingbeck! What an awesome name!" "I wish it could be 'Heather KillingPaulaCole'")
3. Bette Midler - The Rose (This was on the, I don't know, Ambient Dentist Office Music cassette when I was in high school and had to go to the dentist every month to get my braces adjusted. And I have liked it ever since, because I'm a giant sap.)
4. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn (This is one of my favorite songs ever. I have no idea why.)
5. Verve Pipe - The Freshmen (They played it on the radio all the time when I was in high school. Can I claim nostalgia? I'm gonna go with that.)

Bonus embarrassing song: Edge of Etiquette - I Hate You (This is the song the punk on the bus is playing on his boom box (god) in Star Trek IV. I enjoy the song very much. I also believe someone should have taken away their rhyming dictionary.)

This is the list of embarrassing songs that are on my iPod because of MST3K:

1. Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) ("They don't even know that each other likes Pina Coladas? What, would they always panic and order Manhattans or something?" "Hey, Rupert Holmes wrote Timothy! That was about cannibalism! When was that popular?")
2. Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525 ("Is man still alive?" "Did woman survive?" "Can you pick your son, pick your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube?")
3. Donna Summer - MacArthur Park (Someone left the cake out in the rain!)
4. Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Everybody! "Someday love will find you!")
5. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart (How does the owner of a lonely heart compare to the owner of a pencil? Come on, Yes!)

Bonus embarrassing song that is totally MST3K's fault: Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch ("Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose." "Sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much.")

I could also do a list of embarrassing Christian music, but let's not even go there.

Okay, now I tag everybody! Because I have that power! Embarrass yourself, won't you?

This is fun!

Via Cogitamus:

1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess...really, who buys a Zune?)
2. Press shuffle songs.
3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?
4. Leave your answers.

My first song is "Tomorrow, Wendy" by Concrete Blonde, which I'm told is a song about AIDS, not that I've ever been able to tell. So that one right there probably disqualifies me. Oh, plus the Bible Belters wouldn't like the part that goes:

I told the priest, Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us
No, I don't wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us

(That's one of my favorite parts of the song, BTW.)

Okay, assuming Concrete Blonde is too obscure, let's see what's next. Ooh, next up is "Underdog" by Audio Adrenaline! Good Christian band, good Christian song. I can still be president with that one on my iPod!

Next!

"So far Away" by Staind. I think that one's probably pretty safe. It was a Top 40-ish song, no obvious problems in the lyrics.

Next we have "London Calling" by The Clash. Hmm. I'm gonna consider that one safe. Feel free to argue with me, but I don't think punk is associated too much with the '60s, and "London Calling" is one of their tamer songs.

Ahh, here we go. "Complicated" by Heavens to Betsy. Riot Grrl music. Still, no one's ever heard of it, so probably would scoot under the radar.

Aaaand, I think we've hit it. "The Last Junkie on Earth" by The Dandy Warhols. Ahem:

But I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passe
now a-day.
You never thought you'd get addicted,
just be cooler in an obvious way.
I could say, shouldn't you have got
a couple piercings and decided
may-be that you were gay.

So either the 1st song disqualifies me, or, if you don't want to count Concrete Blonde, the 6th song disqualifies me. (And FSM help me when it scrolls up "Fuck You" by the Headstones.) Ah, politics. Gotta love it, right?

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

"[...] I told you them birds will steal anything that glitters."

"I'm not hurt at all," said Agnes pointedly. "The holly quite cushioned my fall."

From Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. I'm working my way through all of Pratchett's books again, because I've realised I don't have them sufficiently memorised. I'm thinking I'll read The Fifth Elephant next. The witch books aren't actually my favorites, so this one is taking me a little longer to get through. The Watch books are my absolute favorites. I could read those again and again (I've probably read Night Watch a dozen times now, and I always have to reread it around the anniversary of the Glorious 25th of May.).

I'm not going to tag anyone, but it would be totally awesome if you want to do this meme. I like to see what other people are reading.

March 15th is Write a Post as Someone Else Day, as declared by kev_bot in 2004. brooklinegirl explains the history of it here.

Today I will be writing as acostilow. Conveniently, Write a Post as Someone Else Day also happens to fall on acostilow's birthday. So, happy birthday, Athena! I will now proceed to mock you!

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Okay you guys, so I was just watching Hudson Hawk, and now I really want to write an angsty Athena/Hudson Hawk fic set after the movie, where Andie McDowell has gone back to being a nun and Bruce Willis is all depressed and then he meets Athena and they have kinky, angsty sex. I'm thinking about calling it "Side by Side."

I know it's het, but would anyone want to beta it for me? Please?

There may be cappuccino porn involved.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

I have no idea if anyone wants to play, but I feel like looking up quotes from my favorite movies, so I'm posting it anyway. Via Minstrel Boy:

Instructions: Look up 15 of your favorite films on IMDb and take a quote from each. List them below. When someone guesses the quote correctly, cross it off the list. Leave a comment with your answers. And NO CHEATING.

1. "Pardon me, girls. I know you're feeling pretty hey sailor up here about now. But if you would just let me order a bowl of fried clams we can all have smallpox tomorrow morning." George of the Jungle by picara

2. "You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest." Little Miss Sunshine by delurker

3. "Luther said I could learn some things from you. I already know how to drink." The Sting by picara

4. "There's two ways to look at it: Billy wants the models and limousines, while I'm happy with hookers and taxicabs." Hard Core Logo by picara

5. "Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave." Serenity by scribblinlenore

6. "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." Die Hard by acostilow

7. "I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." Pirates of the Caribbean by engr_girlie

8. "I'm a drug dealer."
"I bury dead people."
"I have a single digit sperm count."
"And I'm a naked cheater. I say we go for it. Are you with me? Let's do it." Men With Brooms by acostilow

9. "There's only one reason Christian girls comes down to the Planned Parenthood."
"She's planting a pipe bomb?"
"Okay, two reasons." Saved! by acostilow

10. "I just don't think that Brooke could've done this. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't." Legally Blonde by scribblinlenore

11. "Sounds like you got a real fucked up idea of fun. Turn around. In the future, when a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun!" Thelma & Louise by scribblinlenore

12. "When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left." White Christmas by engr_girlie

13. "The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals." The Big Lebowski by engr_girlie and acostilow

14. "WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, 'Dear God! What is that thing,' will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever." The Princess Bride by scribblinlenore

15. "You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation." Brokeback Mountain by acostilow

I especially love that it's flying. It's a flying penguin! Among other things.

Make your own.

(Via Shakesville.)

Meme ganked from angelalala:

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand, and underline those you want to read. And, allow me to just further complicate matters a smidge: Make it green if you've never heard of it. Yay!

( to the list! )

Mingle² - Online Dating

What's this rating based on?

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

abortion (6x)
sex (3x)
bomb (2x)
slut (1x)

Well damn! It's not even rated NC-17 for the fun stuff! I bet that's all from political posts!

My Mafia nickname is The Bishop. You may all address me as such from now on.

(It makes me think of the Stainless Steel Rat, particularly the scene in A Stainless Steel Rat is Born where Slippery Jim and the Bishop hide out in the kitchen of the automated fast food restaurant. The Bishop, nauseated, as I would be, by the thought of eating nothing but crappy fast food from the same restaurant for a month, declares that it will be a good opportunity for him to "reduce." Good times.)

End of the year meme from PunkAssBlog.

1) Harken back to your archives.
2) Collect the first sentence you wrote every month for the whole year.
3) Entertain us.

December: I would just like everyone to know that school sucks.

January: I'm bored, and I haven't updated in awhile, so let's do this.

February: My body hates me.

March: So, anyone ever taken Ambien?

April: This is just about the funniest vid ever.

May: I got new glasses a couple days ago!

June: I was researching options for Father's Day gifts by going through Amazon's many helpful suggestions (pineapple slicer? faux rock? motorized tie rack?) when I discovered the best Amazon guide I've ever seen.

July: One of the many reasons I love the Tour de France:

August: I'm bored and I have a headache, so let's do this.

September: Via acostilow and etumon:

October: Zoe isn't supposed to go on top of the dining room table.

November: This is the best election since I've been able to vote.



That last one was a pretty good memory. :)

In other news...I GOT THE JOB! *dances*

Meme! Gakked from acostilow, whom I have decided deserves a chance to make fun of me in return. Comments are screened.

(2 Points) My name:
(1 Point) My last name:
(5 Points) Take a stab at my middle name:
(3 Points) Who was my first celeb-crush:
(2 Points) Do I have any children:
(2 Points) How old are they:
(2 Points) What work do I do:
(3 Points) What am I afraid of:
(2 Points) Do I smoke:
(3 Points) Do I drink:
(2 Points) Do I have any siblings:
(2 Points) How many:
(1 Point) Do I like 'em:
(4 Points) What's one of my favorite things to do:
(2 Points) How many tattoos do I have:
(3 Points) What's my favorite type of music:
(2 Points) What's my favorite TV show:
(2 Points) Who is my favorite band/artist:
(4 Points) Am I shy or outgoing:
(3 Points) Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules:
(2 Points) What’s my favourite colour:
(3 Points) Name something I hate:
(4 Points) Name a talent I have:
(4 Points) What kind of shoes do I wear:
(4 Points) Do I have any pets:
(2 Points) Who am I dating right now:
(5 Points) What did I study in university:
(5 Points) What is the colour of my room:
(5 Points) What is my worst habit:
(5 Points on creativity) If I were stranded on a desert island, what would I bring:

Via acostilow and etumon:

( My collage )