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Create an account By logging in to LiveJournal using a third-party service you accept LiveJournal’s User agreement Ranting and Knitting One grad student’s journey through design and life Recent Entries Archive Friends Profile March 2011 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Tags ailbhe air mattresses suck alice sebold alpaca amelia atwater-rhodes apartment awesomeness basement bbc bbc book list being productive black light blog book blog buy my stuff cables cat classical literature competition creative writing crochet cry design did i mention super awesome? etsy fingerless gloves free free stuff getting things done goldfish saga graduate school graduation? pfa! grapes of wrath hat hawksong headband help i get to buy books ideas illness knitting knitty knitty.com kudos lace list livejournal long lost purpose mfa my life sucks my university blows nanowrimo new apartment new directions new stuff ohshit omg cute one thousand origami paper cranes patterns pesky roommate project rant ravelry reading red school setbacks short silk steinbeck super rant tea the lovely bones tinking ugh update wool write writers block defeated writing yes they are named after the viper in ha Page Summary A Thousand Paper Cranes Bleh November #64: The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Update) Ready, Set, Go! Books on the BBC Book List I/My Folks Have Already... And Those I Need to Acquire/Borrow BBC Reading List/Project Wahoo! Mid-September Update/Give Me Ideas to Write About! Danika Preview Syndicate Powered by LiveJournal.com Previous 10 Mar. 22nd, 2011 A Thousand Paper Cranes Origami paper was on sale at two of my favorite craft stores. I buckled and bought... 556 sheets of gorgeous paper. So I guess I’m on the thousand paper cranes trek. Upon folding a thousand paper cranes, so the story goes, the folder will be granted one wish. I’m a perfectionist and a slow folder, apparently, so it’s taking me about half an hour each crane. Good thing I have so many seasons of How I Met Your Mother to watch. One crane each episode. It’s a good idea in theory... It’s going to be difficult to keep the cat out of the paper. Silly cat. Tags: cat , new stuff , one thousand , origami , paper cranes , project Posted at 11:35 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag Mar. 21st, 2011 Bleh I shouldn’t have bragged about not getting sick last semester. So far this year I’ve spent four days in the hospital, had two UTIs, and seen the doctor more and taken more prescription meds than I did all of last year. Add to that the fact that I’ve seen the inside of the ER waiting room three more times (due to friends being sick/in car accidents) and sat with a friend for two days while he was in the ICU, and I’m getting mighty tired of the American healthcare system. Oh, and I had a cold sore. BLEH. On the plus side, my own hospital stay made me reevaluate some of the principles on which I’ve based my life (more on that at a later date). I’m slowly becoming more independent, and getting my life back in order. I even got a tattoo. I’ve only been meaning to get one of those for about six years... it just took me that long to figure out what I wanted and where. I couldn’t be happier with it. Will start reading off the BBC book list again soon. Must first organize distractions, make lists, and... yeah, I’m just procrastinating. Who am I kidding? But I’ll do it soon, promise. Tags: bbc , bbc book list , getting things done , lost purpose , project , rant , reading , school , setbacks Posted at 05:13 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag Nov. 2nd, 2010 November location : Happy Apartment mood : full music : Kitten Jingle Collar Bells NaNoWriMo has begun. Goodbye world, see you again in December. I will try to read from the BBC book list (only 30ish pages left in The Lovely Bones), but no promises this month. If my NaNo project goes well, I can spend 2011 revising it, and turn it in Spring 2012 as my thesis. Hopefully. Tags: alice sebold , bbc , bbc book list , being productive , book blog , creative writing , getting things done , mfa , nanowrimo , project , reading , school , the lovely bones , update , write , writing Posted at 11:05 am | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag Oct. 25th, 2010 #64: The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Update) So last week I started reading The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. I’m just over halfway through at this point. Here’s a couple thoughts: 1. Easy read. Accessible language. 2. Main character isn’t really a character - she’s not interesting at all. If the story were actually about her, I would have stopped reading ages ago. 3. I enjoy the fact that the omniscient 3rd person narrator is actually a character in the story. Not sure this would work in any other story, but it’s pretty cool. 4. Smooth transitions from heaven to present to flashbacks. A complex timeline that isn’t difficult to follow. That’s about all I’ve got for now folks, time to go register for my spring classes! Tags: alice sebold , bbc book list , book blog , mfa , project , reading , the lovely bones , write Posted at 12:54 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag Oct. 21st, 2010 Ready, Set, Go! location : Happy Apartment mood : tired music : Stargate menu music I randomized the book list. Wrote each book (that I currently have access to) down on a single line of college-ruled notebook paper, cut the lines apart, folded twice, and stuck into a coffee mug randomized. Basically I couldn’t be bothered to make such a trivial decision such as what to read first, so I decided to do an extra hour of meaningless work to circumvent the decision. I am awesome. And the winner of the first random book draw is... The Lovely Bones. But for now, post-espresso crash and sleep. Good night world. Tags: bbc , bbc book list , book blog , classical literature , grapes of wrath , list , project , reading , steinbeck Posted at 01:48 am | Link | Leave a comment | Share | Flag Oct. 19th, 2010 Books on the BBC Book List I/My Folks Have Already... And Those I Need to Acquire/Borrow location : Happy Apartment mood : productive music : Pure Silence Because I like making lists. I’m very good at it. Sometimes, I make lists of things I have to do, instead of actually doing them! Yay, lists. Books I Have (Access To) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Complete Works of Shakespeare Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker Dune - Frank Herbert Emma - Jane Austen Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Hamlet - William Shakespeare Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Lord of the Flies - William Golding Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy The Bible The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien The Inferno – Dante The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Lord of the Rings -...