Remind me why I thought this was a good idea....

So, getting a break has been awesome. I've remembered what it was like to sleep again.

Rachael and I were talking on the phone last night and she asked me how long it'd taken me to recover and get back to my normal self. I told her I hadn't been my normal self in so long I'd forgotten what my normal self was like!

I have to admit though, as nice as my break has been, my family is beginning to drive me crazy. And I wish I had some actual work to do. I'm so used to being busy with classes and work that it's weird not having that. And aside from church, I haven't really seen anyone my own age this entire time.

And...truth be told...I kind of miss going to classes. Even though I usually dislike them. Well, some of them.

Gah...this can't be happening. I can't actually be MISSING college! How weird is that?!

Shouldn't be doing this...

...especially since I have to be up at six tomorrow. Borrowed this from LiveJournal.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (I'm adding *** because I can't underline)
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 ;-)


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 (I love it in as much as you can love the book you base your spiritual beliefs on...)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I don't like Emily as much as I like Charlotte and Anne)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (will NEVER read this)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (*snores*)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott***
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (don't intend to read them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (never heard of it)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of it)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (never heard of it)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
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
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (never heard of it)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *** (T'was brillig, and the slithy toves...)
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 - CS Lewis***
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (never heard of it)
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 (never heard of it)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (never heard of it)
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 (never heard of it)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen *** (I just love 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
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's 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
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 Saint-Exupery (well, I read half. Keep meaning to finish it sometimes...)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *** (loved this book so much I named rabbits after the ones in it)
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

Hey! I have my summer reading list now!

Yay.

I have a new laptop. I bought it two days ago.

I had to restore (read: format) it today because it wouldn't load Windows.

I'm hoping this isn't an omen.

It's got a 250 GB hard drive. My old one had a 40 GB hard drive.

It has 2 GB RAM. My old one had 516 MB RAM.

It has a screen that is really shiny and crisp. My old one...isn't really shiny. Or crisp.

I really want it to work.

Oh, and my jump drive fried. Seriously. It wasn't good. Luckily, I think I can reconstruct most of my info.

Still bored

Like it says. Still bored.
Should have a new laptop by June 20th or so. I'm thrilled.