I don’t have any cohesive thoughts left for today, so let’s play it Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness style, shall we?
- I haven’t slept in like 3 nights. I can seriously feel my thoughts moving through my brain like mud. It’s not pleasant.
- There’s a new chick at work. I don’t like her. She’s snooty and sits in the cube right behind mine. Aside from not liking her, she scares me. First, I heard her say during a cell phone call, “That would be easier if you had a gun.” Now, that’s not something one wants to hear anyone say, but I was willing to think maybe she was speaking of a staple gun or something. Yes, please gods, let it be a home improvement project. Today, during another cell phone call, she said, “Yeah, but what are you going to do with his body. You can’t just bury it in the backyard. There are laws against that.”
I want to sit somewhere else now. Please. Thank you.
- I don’t know if I love the new theme I am using. It feels summery. We’ll give it a shot.
- There’s this guy at work, that I swear, all he does is talk on the phone. And not at his desk. He uses the conference room next to my boss’ office. You would think this would cut down on the noise, but no. So he’s in there today, being very loud, so loud that I can hear every word he is saying and the door is shut. I had semi-tuned him out until I heard, “It’s just rude! I was blowing him and he fucking farted!” I immediately got an IM from my boss that read, “OMG, TMI, TMI, TMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I walked by her office about 10 minutes later, after we had heard a story about faulty lube and an all male threesome. She had her head down on her desk with her hands clamped over her ears.
- I got a Blackberry. I lurves it! Only I covered it in a pink case and turned the display and all the icons pink, so really, it’s a Pinkberry.
- I just had my Denversary. I’ve been here five months. Wow.
- This weekend, I will relax. I will, goddammit. I will find the means to unwind. I will unfunk my chi, align my chakras, cleanse my karma, become zen like in every single way. Or else I am buying a bottle of Grey Goose, popping a straw in the top, and calling it even.
I got 38.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag 20 other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkie
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte -X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell -X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy -X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens X
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck -X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll -X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -X
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis -X
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini -X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -X
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – X
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 -X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood -X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan -X
51 Life of Pi – Yann Marte
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen -X
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 – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov -X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold -X
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker -X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens -X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker -X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubertx
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
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
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 – X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl -X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
