You know, times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now and you're going to learn how to deal with it.

Cheers!

Yay for this: 

I entered text from my first pages of my thesis, including the Submission pages, Dedication, Copyright, and Abstract.  How awesome!

Who Loves You?

Thanks, Cori, for the time-killer:)

1) Green: I have read.
2) Blue: Those I intend to read.
3) Underline: Books I love.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

6) I'm going to add a step - gray out those you are unfamiliar with.

 
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The 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 – Phillip 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 – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (I own)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I own)
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
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (I own & have started and put down)
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 - CS 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 (I own)
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I own)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I own)
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 own)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville --Easily in my top 10!
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
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
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
92 The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery --I even read it in French!
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (I own)
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Question: wouldn't this fall under his "Complete Works"? It's not like it's "The Complete Works of Shakespeare...oh, and Hamlet.")
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I've read 52 on the list.  Yay.  I will never touch another Charles Dickens in my life, and there are still many other "classics" not on this list that I have read or will read. 

Sorry for the lack of updates.  I got a little busy!  Here are a couple shots from the wedding I did on Day Three. 

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Wow...I had a hard day.  I went to the beach and played around with my rental camera: the new Nikon D300.  I got it so I can have two for the wedding I am shooting tomorrow.  It. Is. Amazing. 

Here are a couple shots from my day.  Oh, and I played with the dogs a little, had a long awaited In-N-Out double double and fries, and bought some new eyeshadow.  Yeah, it was rough. 

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This is Scrapper, my mom's dog...daughter of Hemingway, my old Yorkie that I gave up.  She looks so much like him!

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Um, I just want to keep this camera so badly...too bad I don't have an extra $2500 somewhere.

It's weird that I am actually taking a vacation in the place I lived all my life and will soon be moving back to...but here I am:)

I had a great run this morning and then went to the salon for some nice, professional highlights.  Here they are.  They kind of just lighten my base, which is what I wanted...next time, it will be a little more blonde.

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Second, lunch at El Pollo Loco, because, damn, it's better than 100% of the "Mexican" food in Ohio.  And real Mexicans actually eat El Pollo Loco.  And they have that coconut/milk/cinnamon drink that you basically will never find anywhere but here.  I really wanted a mega bean and cheese burrito from Filiberto's in Encinitas!  Maybe tomorrow.

Third, I went to get a manicure and pedicure, where I was presented with the hardest question of my week: Regular manicure or special?  I said regular...after all, how much more special can my cute little nails get?

Nice day, and I still have downtown San Diego for dinner tonight!

On the agenda for tomorrow: the beach.

Life's hard.

Sooooo, I guess I was just about as bored as Cori and Jen.

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well, you know...California Girls.  And I will be again soon!  After much thought and consideration, and despite an extreme attachment to the Cleveland Indians, I plan on moving back to California in August:)  San Diego, here I come!  Oh, and you Padres better get your act together, boy oh boy.  I'll see you soon.

Yay!

Golden State-Land That I LOVE!

My first stop will be Charleston, SC to hang out with my brother, sister-in-law and niece, Allison.  My sister and brother-in-law, and nephew will be there too!  Then, I will head west through Atlanta, GA, Dallas, TX, and some places in AZ.  It'll be hot and fun!

Don't worry CA, I'll be back before you know it.

From the NY Post:

SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie "Bernard and Doris," is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, "It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people."

Do you, Susan.  Because I think McCain is going to win, so the question really is, can America have faith in you to follow through on your promise?

So, you'll have to go to the other one to witness my unabashed love for dooce.com

Super excited!

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Check out this excerpt from a piece by an Obama supporter in the Village Voice:

My lady parts do not ache for Hillary Clinton.

As The First Viable Female Contender’s bid for the Democratic nomination sputters to its inevitable end, everyone and their mother/sister/daughter has something to say about the poisonous misogyny that’s apparently to blame…

…Here’s the thing: There is plenty of sexism—more than enough, thank you very much—in this country. Which is why it’s so sad to see Hillary’s supporters (and lately even her female detractors, and way too many column inches) elevate her to some kind of goddess warrior, symbolizing the decades-long fight for gender equality, absorbing the entirety of history’s catcall in one massive blow, and then standing tall again because that’s what women do. Powerful stuff, except that she’s a lying, race-baiting insult to our collective intelligence. Powerful, if she and her husband hadn’t sold out poor people in the ’90s or if she had stood tall like a woman against the war in Iraq or if she wasn’t right now trying to change the rules of the game and stir up the worst kind of identity politics…

Wow.  I love when the party rips itself apart from the inside.  Sort of a political spontaneous combustion...except longer.