Capricious Me » 2004 » June

alrighty, so i took pics of the guys and their new haircuts. (why are they all so perverted?) anyway, pics will be posted soon enough. augh. so we have presentations tomorrow. bleah bleah bleah. once it’s over, and once the ethics seminar ends, i’m going to take a nice long nap. after going to the rec center. yes. ooh and go to walmart to get shampoo, a box fan, tissues, and perhaps more movies. mwahahahaha.

unbearably hot weather must desist.

So my cover’s blown. the CSDS people have found my blog(s). and since Ted wants details, Ted will get details. Hm. So I woke up at around noon today, called amy, had some ramen (because I skipped lunch so I could get a few more min of sleep) and did my laundry. Ted is unsatisfied with the picture I posted of him, so I’ll change that picture as soon as I upload the photos. I’m listening to Beauty and Beast songs in french right now, before going to sleep. Jeff S got a haircut and it looks infinitely better than it did before. I’ll post a picture of that too as soon as I take one. John shaved his head the other day, and that too merits a picture. When Ted carves a certain message into his hair, I’ll post a pic of that too, and when Jeff R buzzes his hair I’ll post a pic as well. I suppose I’ll throw in another one of Eliz just for fun. (There Ted, enough details for you?)

Wee! Amy (Liu)’s back! and I just talked for an hour on the phone… anyway, i’m sooooo jealous because she got to go to China (they PAID HER TO DO IT) and they’re also sending her to Japan and she gets her own house and everything. raaaaaaah!!!

I saw Dodgeball yesterday! It was really funny, but not that great… I liked Zoolander SOO much better. I also got a Kill Bill poster. WEEEE!!! and it has a piccie of Pai Mei on it. Kekeke.

Things are lovely and I’m about to go the gym to maybe do some running and then more climbing. Hurrah!

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist  (SO GOOD!)
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White (again, SO GOOD!)
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, William Goldman
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens
370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
371. Prospero’s Children, Jan Siegel
372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
380. A wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le’Guin
381. Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb
382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
384. Sabriel, Garth Nix
385. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
386. The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris
387. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
388. Night, Elie Wiesel
389. Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
390. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
391. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
392. Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue
393. The Wrong Boy, Willy Russell
394. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
395. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
396. Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
397. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
398. Little Help From Above, Sara Lee Rosenberg
399. Asking For Trouble, Elizabeth Young
400. The Boy Next Door, Meggin Cabot
401. Beautiful Bodies, Laura Shaine Cunningham
402. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
403. Best Friends, Martha Moody
404. Cane River, Lalita Tademy
405. The Secret Life Of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
406. Girls’ Poker Night, Jill A. Davis
407. Last Chance Saloon, Marian Keyes
408. Sugarcage, Connie Fowler
409. The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene
410. The Dirty Girls Social Club, Alicia Valdez-Rodriguez
411. The Girls Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Melissa Bank
412. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
413. White Oleander, Janet Fitch
414. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Kurt Vonnegut
415. The Odyssey, Homer
416. Falconer, John Cheever
417. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
418. El Se?or Presidente, Miguel Angel Asturias
419. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
420. Xenocide, Orson Scott Card
421. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
422. The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley
423. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
424. Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman
425. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
426. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett
427. Little, Big, John Crowley
428. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
430. Lovelock, Orson Scott Card and Katherine Kidd
431. Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
432. I, Claudius ?Robert Graves
433. Claudius the God ?Robert Graves
434. Fatherland ?Robert Harris

Ok, so it’s not really an outing since it’s on campus… but Rockclimbing is SO MUCH FUN!!! My arms are sooo sore today, but whatever… John made me belay (sp?) him and when he came down I got lifted off the ground and I gave out this huuuge squeak. Nice going yuan.

So, still haven’t seen Dodgeball yet, but hopefully that will be remedied today. And hopefully I can also eat something yummy today, because I cannot live with cafeteria food for 8 more weeks. And I’m kinda disappointed man… that express skirt (the pastelly paisley one that I HAVE worn, contrary to popular belief) is kinda big now… but this is also good news, as it means my weight loss is NOT just a figment of my imagination.

1. I don’t like cheese.
2. I hate being disturbed when I’m reading.
3. I’m easily annoyed.
4. I trust people easily.
5. My first impressions are not reliable.
6. I forgive my friends easily.
7. I enjoy silence.
8. I like songs in languages I can’t understand.
9. I feel awkward around people.
10. I don’t like long car rides with my parents.
11. I like darkness.
12. I hate society’s stupid fixation on exploiting tragedies as a way to garner profits and attention.
13. I think everyone should be honest, but I know that’s not the case.
14. I have a horrible temper.
15. I hate crying.
16. I’m afraid of and disgusted by bugs.
17. I don’t like to give in or give up.
18. I think drinking to get drunk for fun is stupid.
19. I think most politicians are self serving liars.
20. I miss my family in China.
21. I hold grudges.
22. I feel sorry for a lot of bad guys in movies & books.
23. I hate feeling stupid.
24. I like listening more than talking.
25. Roses don’t smell that good to me.
26. Anger is easier to express than affection.
27. I’m really insecure sometimes.
28. Religion & politics are two topics that always piss me off.
29. Rodents disgust me.
30. I treat my dog better than I treat a lot of people.
31. I don’t believe in life after death.
32. People’s opinions matter more to me than I let them think.
33. I’m pretty gullible.
34. Sometimes I really want to say something, but I just can’t open my mouth.
35. I don’t like working in groups.
36. I believe in second chances.
37. Friendship and the loyalty that goes with it is very important to me.
38. I despise liars, cheaters, and people who can get away with it.
39. I wish I could control time.
40. Sometimes I like to think about what I would do if I were the only person left on earth.

idaho is loads of fun. well. actually, moscow’s boring as hell because there’s nothing to do, but because of this, the McConnell CSDS group is pretty close. Man… It’s SO much fun at meal-times because of the guys and their perverse humor. It’s vulgar, yeah, but at the same time you have this morbid curiosity as to what they’ll come up with next. I know I’d be sooo offended and disgusted if it was any other people, but these guys are all genuinely nice. Eliz and I mercilessly throw rocks at them after dinner (ok, pebbles really, but rocks just sounds better, doesn’t it?)

so, shocker of shockers… I actually excercise. I mean, I started swimming a lot in palo alto, but that didn’t really count. I go to the rec center w/Eliz and some of the guys at 4:00pm on weekdays. Don’t worry, it’s not like I’m suddenly an excercise fiend. I only do one mile continuously, stop, and then sometimes run a little more… and then go to the rowing machines for a few mins. Running and the fact that the cafeteria food is so disgusting that I’ve resorted to eating VEGGIES has made me… (i think) lose a little weight. yay.

bottom line is: i’m enjoying it here.

Alrighty… I’ve been here for a week now. Weee… I didn’t go camping, because I thought I was going to do work. I ended up watching lots of movies and just hanging out. the coed experiences is definitely a new thing, to say the least. there’s so much conversation about porn and sex and girls amongst these guys. it’s hilarious, yeah, but i get shocked a lot by what they say. guys are SOO weird. it’s a good thing eliz is here. we def. need more girls in our cs group. but it’s really nice that we all head over to breakfast & dinner & lunch together. sometimes the uidaho students will join. but i really haven’t spoken to many of them… except one.

So i finally saw Romeo must die. It wasn’t so good. and i bought a few new movies from walmart: Superstar, Stigmata, Hunt for Red October, and Glory. I also got myself a Uidaho t-shirt. I want another. This one’s so cute and it’s blue (oh the shock. another blue shirt).

Yeah… you know what really sucks? The freaking birds start chirping at like 3am and they don’t shut up. and then the sun rises at like 4 something. and the freaking sun’s sooo strong. i’ll wake up at five every morning and it’s fully bright and my room heats up like a bitch. aaugh. but jeff s. helped me start the ventilator thingy, and jeff r. drove me and eliz to walmart for fans. we also checked out the palouse mall. it’s a pathetic mall. you know the arsenal mall in watertown? or… watertown mall? yeah, that’s what palouse is like. bleah.

I think the stories thing is over. no more weird things for a while. and the wordpress upgrade (sob, i’m abandoning b2 after 3+ years of faithful service.) should come soon.

So it’s not that I’m a lazy bum… it’s because I’m in idaho. and believe it or not, I’ve gotten out of my reclusive rut. The people here are better than I expected. They are for the most part very nice. And this will make you do a double take (*koff* amy) I’ve been off my ass and actually excersising. I wonder how long that will last. I’m rather sore right now, but if I continue (jia you!) it’ll go away and then I won’t feel like a big inanimate blob.