I can’t believe that I haven’t seen this on any of the blogs I frequent, so I have to share it myself…
Wondering who to vote for? Find out what Opie, Andy, Richie and the Fonz have to say.
😉
Just a test post folks…nothing to see here.
New stuff starts down around 32 or 33.
I feel like I’m missing some things, but I can’t figure out what…so here’s a possibly incomplete list of what I’ve read so far this year:
1. Love, Stargirl–Jerry Spinelli
2. Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable–JM DeMatteis
3. Neptune Noir–edited by Rob Thomas
4. Blood Price–Tanya Huff
5. Looking for Alaska–John Green
6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom–Cory Doctorow
7. Young Avengers
8. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
9. Kimmie66–Aaron Alexovich
10. Blood Trail–Tanya Huff
11. Undisclosed unpublished manuscript–a friend
12. Living Lost–J. Wood
13. Boy Proof–Cecil Castellucci
14. First Among Sequels–Jasper Fforde
15. I’d Tell You I Love You But then I’d Have to Kill You–Ally Carter
16. Size 14 is Not Fat Either–Meg Cabot
17. Buffy Omnibus, vol. 2
18. Gifts–Ursula LeGuin
19. Duma Key–Stephen King
20. Pirates of the Retail Wasteland–Adam Selzer
21. The House on Mango Street–Sandra Cisneros
22. Daniel’s Story–Carol Matas
23. Queen of Babble in the Big City–Meg Cabot
24. Big Boned–Meg Cabot
25. Ready or Not–Meg Cabot
26. Someone Like You–Sarah Dessen
27. Lily Dale: Awakening–Wendy Corsi Staub
28. When You Are Engulfed in Flames–David Sedaris (didn’t finish)
29. Ultimates–Mark Millar
30. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian–Sherman Alexie
31. Story of a Girl–Sara Zarr
32. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched–Meg Cabot
33. Janes in Love–Cecil Castellucci
34. American Born Chinese–Gene Yang
35. Of Mice and Men–John Steinbeck
36. A Raisin in the Sun–Lorraine Hansberry
37. Teaching Outside the Box–LouAnne Johnson
38. Little Brother–Cory Doctorow
39. Teaching with Love and Logic–Jim Fay & David Funk (currently reading)
40. Creating Classrooms where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn–Bob Sornson Ph.D.
(currently reading)
41. Another undisclosed, unpublished manuscript
I managed to upload some photos to flickr today, with titles and descriptions even. Whoo!
Here’s a little sample…all photos of things I’ve baked recently:
Pumpkin bread
Blackberry pie
Foccacia
Mmmm…
Enjoy!
For those who may not know, John Hodgman is the PC in the Mac/PC ads. He’s also The Daily Show’s Resident Expert.
He’s on twitter, and his tweets totally make the debate bearable. Here are some examples:
Also, Sarah Palin really understands: snow. And also: glasses.
Legit question: did McCain actually speak to Joe the Plumber? Or did he just read about him on a blog?
McCain’s tears over the John Lewis comment sure are crocodiley.
Joe the Plumber is going to be McCains new VP
Lewis Rothschild: People want leadership. And in the absence of genuine leadership, they will listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership, Mr. President. They’re so thirsty for it, they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.
President Andrew Shepherd: Lewis, we’ve had Presidents who were beloved who couldn’t find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don’t drink the sand ’cause they’re thirsty. They drink the sand ’cause they don’t know the difference.
I need to watch that movie again…
You can read about Rand’s and my little cake tradition over at the wedding blog.
Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend! 🙂
So yesterday, I got the mail when I got home from school, and as usual, there were several packages for Rand. I almost didn’t notice that one of them was addressed to me! What could it be, I wondered. I didn’t order anything.
So I opened the package, and inside it was a copy of John Scalzi‘s new book. And then I remembered…months ago, I pre-ordered the book to get in on a special deal where I would get a limited edition numbered and signed copy of the book, plus a chapbook. (How long ago did I order it? Well, it was shipped to my current address, but had my maiden name on it…so sometime between the end of May and the second week of July.)
I’m very much looking forward to reading it, just as soon as I have some free time. (hahahahaha)
😉
Tags: books, reading, John Scalzi, whatever, hate mail, mail
Well, my general blogging malaise is still with me, but I’m poking in to share a few brief things.
Don’t forget to stop by this post and let me know who you are!
I’ve tried to deal with the sluggish loading problem by removing some things from my sidebar. It seems to have helped a bit. If I ever get the energy, I might try a new theme and clean things up even more. Or, I might just move the whole thing over to wordpress so I don’t have to deal with all of the pain-in-the-butt issues that come withh hosting my own blog. Meh, I don’t know.
I’ve been baking a lot lately. It seems to be my current way of dealing with stress/creative outlet. I’ve taken a bunch of pictures, which I will one day upload. I’ll post recipes, too. My most recent successes have been breads. I made a pumpkin bread last week that was yummy, but for the fact that it got a teeny bit overcooked around the edges. And yesterday, I made a (white) batter bread that is also pretty tasty.
I’m a little bummed out about this whole Channel 4/Time Warner thing because of How I Met Your Mother. Thank goodness for the Internet, eh? I’m not likely to hop ship to a satellite service, because our cable comes with our condo association membership. Maybe this whole thing will be settled soon. Until then, iTunes will be my best friend.
I have watched none of Heroes (we watched 10 minutes into the premiere and got a little bored) or Chuck. Rand and I did watch Dirty Sexy Money last week, which we both continue to love.
I’ve now read most of A Raisin in the Sun, but have not yet started Of Mice and Men. I’d better get on that, as my class will be starting it later this week. (has anyone seen the recent version of A Raisin in the Sun w/Sean Combs aka Puffy or Puff Daddy or Diddy, or whatever name he’s using these days? I haven’t. Just curious.)
Okay, I need to step away from the computer now. Hope everyone’s having a happy Monday!
I’d like to do a quick roll call. I’m interested in knowing who’s hanging out around erin-go-blog. If you could find it in your hearts to leave me a comment–doesn’t need to be anything profound–I’d greatly appreciate it.
It’d help me if you left me a working email address as well! (It doesn’t show publicly…I’m the only one who can see it!)