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learnteach1. I am incredibly unmotivated today. I just want to hide away and read a book. Didn't even get the trash out, and now is a bad time for that.
2. There will be a fuller post on this, but if you care for your family and friends, and are any kind of sick, make sure they know who your primary care physician is and that the contact number is easily available. If you die, and they call that doctor first, a lot gets straightened out. If not, and 911i called not only is any DNR order not known (paramedics are required to attempt resuscitation, even if it's obviously hopeless) but the police responding will begin an investigation. It's SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and that means that in an emotional, grief strained moment, every policeman who shows up will interrogate everyone who was on the scene when the first one showed up.
3. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132) Went for the next one instead
Crime and punishment (121) Class assignment.
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110) Really, a romance novel. I liked the play better.
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91) Sex and murder and monks, oh my!
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86) I
Ulysses (84) Picked up and put down several times
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83) Several versions. Rosy fingered dawn! What color is wine in greece, anyway?
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80) Another romance
A tale of two cities (80) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and I can't remember if I finished it.
The brothers Karamazov (80) I prefer the jugglers.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) Social technical history!
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73) The original pre-roadtrip. What a triangle!
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68) Great Gaiman
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) Looked at it.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) Etx. Not the best Stephenson, but fun
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65) Social reality fairy tales!
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61) Finally just gave it away.
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59) (X 3)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56)
The inferno (56)
The satanic verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52) Well, of course; my brother is autistic.
Dune (51) And some of the sequels
The prince (51) Go Mach!
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50) ANd forced others to read it.
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50) Doesn't hold a candle to the current fuckup
A short history of nearly everything (50) And many others
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49) Ice 9!
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48) Thanks to Derek, I found out it wasn't just australians.
The mists of Avalon (47) Ich.
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47) Get back to that one
Cloud atlas (47)
The confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45) The face, the face at the door! And the origin of the "gypsy wedding"
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45) Not as good as "Tipping Point"
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45) Reread occasionally
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44) First Furry experience!
Gravity's rainbow (44) Dad wants me to read this.
The Hobbit (44) Every year for 10 years, and occasionally still. A love postcard of a dream england.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44) FRIPING Yarns for BOYS!
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44) RIPPING tales for teenaged MEN!
Eh. I need to figure the theme thing out.
2. There will be a fuller post on this, but if you care for your family and friends, and are any kind of sick, make sure they know who your primary care physician is and that the contact number is easily available. If you die, and they call that doctor first, a lot gets straightened out. If not, and 911i called not only is any DNR order not known (paramedics are required to attempt resuscitation, even if it's obviously hopeless) but the police responding will begin an investigation. It's SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and that means that in an emotional, grief strained moment, every policeman who shows up will interrogate everyone who was on the scene when the first one showed up.
3. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132) Went for the next one instead
Crime and punishment (121) Class assignment.
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110) Really, a romance novel. I liked the play better.
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91) Sex and murder and monks, oh my!
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86) I
Ulysses (84) Picked up and put down several times
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83) Several versions. Rosy fingered dawn! What color is wine in greece, anyway?
Pride and prejudice (83)
A tale of two cities (80) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and I can't remember if I finished it.
The brothers Karamazov (80) I prefer the jugglers.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) Social technical history!
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73) The original pre-roadtrip. What a triangle!
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68) Great Gaiman
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) Looked at it.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) Etx. Not the best Stephenson, but fun
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65) Social reality fairy tales!
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61) Finally just gave it away.
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59) (X 3)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56)
The inferno (56)
The satanic verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52) Well, of course; my brother is autistic.
Dune (51) And some of the sequels
The prince (51) Go Mach!
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50) ANd forced others to read it.
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50) Doesn't hold a candle to the current fuckup
A short history of nearly everything (50) And many others
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49) Ice 9!
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48) Thanks to Derek, I found out it wasn't just australians.
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47) Get back to that one
Cloud atlas (47)
The confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45) The face, the face at the door! And the origin of the "gypsy wedding"
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45) Not as good as "Tipping Point"
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45) Reread occasionally
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44) First Furry experience!
Gravity's rainbow (44) Dad wants me to read this.
The Hobbit (44) Every year for 10 years, and occasionally still. A love postcard of a dream england.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44) FRIPING Yarns for BOYS!
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44) RIPPING tales for teenaged MEN!
Eh. I need to figure the theme thing out.
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Null motivation
Date: 2007-10-02 09:15 pm (UTC)Re: Null motivation
Date: 2007-10-02 11:12 pm (UTC)I was making your birthday gift to me on Friday, had to turn it off and recook it--Moose Drool beer bread, made with Moose Drool beer. Pretty tasty, I added green and red peppers for color and it was pretty. Thanks for is!
Re: Null motivation
Date: 2007-10-03 04:34 am (UTC)Yes, my fuzzies are a blessing :)
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Date: 2007-10-02 09:29 pm (UTC)The Name Of The Rose is possibly the biggest reason I never actually joined the SCA.
Wine in Greece nowadays is mostly slightly richer than American white wines. Retsina is similar, but tastes much, much worse. Greek brandy is the color of the sea at sunset, when the light is very red.
Dark?
Date: 2007-10-03 12:54 am (UTC)As in wine-dark sea?
Re: Dark?
Date: 2007-10-03 12:59 am (UTC)Re: Dark?
Date: 2007-10-03 01:44 am (UTC)Dunno.