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Bold what you've read!
1. Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
3. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
4. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
5. Waiting For Godot, by Samuel Beckett
6. Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
7. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
8. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
9. The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
10. The Stranger, by Albert Camus
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
12. Cool Salsa, ed Lori M. Carlson
13. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
14. The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekov
15. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
16. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
17. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
18. The Inferno, by Dante
19. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
20. Poems, by Emily Dickinson
21. Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
22. Crime and Punishment, by Fydor Doestoevsky
23. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
24. The Beet Queen, by Louise Erdrich
25. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
26. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
28. Grendel, by John Gardner
29. Unsettling America, ed Maria Mazziotti Gillian and Jennifer Gillian
30. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
31. Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
32. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
33. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
34. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
35. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
36. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
37. The Holy Bible
38. The Odyssey, by Homer
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
40. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
41. A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen
42. Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco
43. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
44. Daisy Miller, by Henry James
45. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
46. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
47. The Liars' Club, by Mary Karr
48. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
49. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
50. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
51. Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid
52. The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski
53. Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
54. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
55. Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
56. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Garbriel Garcia Marquez
58. In Country, by Bobbi Ann Mason
59. Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
60. In Search of Color Everywhere, ed E. Ethelbert Miller
61. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
62. Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, ed Duane Niatum
63. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
64. The Complete Stories, by Flannery O'Connor
65. Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
66. 1984, by George Orwell
67. Metamorphoses, by Ovid
68. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
69. Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe
70. Hunger of Memory, by Richard Rodriguez
71. Earth Shattering Poems, ed. Liz Rosenberg
72. The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
73. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
74. No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre
75. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
76. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
77. A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
78. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
79. Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
80. 100 Best-Loved Poems, ed Phillip Smith
81. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman
82. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
83. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
84. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
85. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
86. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
87. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
88. Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
89. Candide, by Voltairek
90. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
91. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
92. The Double Helix, by James D. Watson
93. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
94. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
95. The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
96. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
97. The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
98. This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff
99. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
100. Native Son, by Richard Wright
101. The Autobiography of Malcom X, by Malcom X with Alex Haley |
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| 01:53am 01/11/2006 |
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Quiz first!!
Lightning
53% Abstract Thought, 55% Rational Thought, 46% Dark
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You take very little attention and maintenance in order to be stunning. Your personallity is amazing and you leave others in awe. The downside is that others are often intimidated by you and they will shy away. When you break loose a storm is sure to follow. Often you are a sign of rain and so many look to you with hope of the life that you can rejuvinate.
Practical Equivalent: The Spotlight /
Polar Opposites: The Campfire, The Halogen Light
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So yeah.... things have been kind of crazy lately. Lots of stuff going on. work, school, clubs, AZ, family/friends... its been crazy.
Not really in a writing mood at the moment, so I don't really have much to say... mayhap I'll update later when I feel more like writing...
have fun!
Ta!
LOVE!!!
~Laura |
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| where was the passion when you need it the most? |
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| 04:40pm 08/09/2006 |
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So it's been quite a while since I've updated LJ... Let's see...
~Went to Mass. with Richardd intending to go to Boston Pops by the sea and ending up going to the beach because it was sold out before it was supposed to. We were upset at first, but we made the most of it. We ended up having a lot of fun at the beach, so it was worth the trip.
~Finished working at the clinic. Hooray! I hated working there because my supervisor acted like she was bipolar. Not so much fun.
~Got Mono. woohoo. it presented as a sore throat and headache, which turned into my throat swelling to the point where I couldn't swallow and me spending three days at DHMC being pumped full of IV fluids, steroids (to bring down the swelling) and antibiotics (to prevent secondary infections). But I'm better now. This also caused me to arrive at school the day that classes started, a week later than I had planned. Oh well.
~Started classes. Only 14 credits this year because of the mono. I'm taking Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Lab, Animal Nutrition, Meat Science, and Animal Welfare (they give us free supper!) Classes are going well thus far. Let's hope that it stays that way.
~Got a new job working in the small farms office. it's going really well, which makes me happy.
~Richard went to school, yay! He's having a good time and classes are going well so far. We find time to talk as much as we can, which has been close to every night even if it's only for a few minutes. I get to see him again at the beginning of October, which is good.
~Got elected secretary of the small farms club, woo!
~I've been cooking dinner with my friends here at Eco, which has definately been a learning experience, lol. We're all still alive and fully functional, so we must not be doing to bad of a job.
Weeeelllll, I think that's about it...
much love to everyone!
*MUAH*
~Laura |
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| so, it's been a while... |
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| 01:41pm 25/06/2006 |
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well, um, I haven't updated in a really long time... like, a month or so.
I've been working full time, which has been good for my bank account. I'm planning on going to Maine and then Cape Cod with Richard the last week of July, not that either of our families really knows that yet :-D
I'm working at Wendell Veterinary Clinic in Sunapee, NH, which for all of my WRJ friends is why I really haven't seen anyone... I work from 8 AM to 6 PM and its a 50 minute drive from Sunapee to WRJ, so it's hard to get up there as much as I'd like to.
It's been good working at WVC, as it is showing me that I want to be a vet less and less every day. I'm really starting to think that teaching may be where my future lies, but I'm not sure. We shall see. Hopefully next summer will be my opportunity to see whether teaching is something I'm truly suited to or not.
I brought home two kittens from WVC who had reached the end of their viable shelf life. They're black and white and sooooo cute! We named them Bonnie and Clyde and they're to go with me as soon as I live somewhere that I can keep cats. The only problem with them is that they like to drink the water out of my fish bowls, so I have to keep a screen rubber-banded to the tops of the bowls. Right now Clyde is curled up in my lap, purring. :-D
Still working on cleaning my room and moving things so that they'll be where I can find them to bring them back to school in August. I'm really kind of in a weird kind of place, emotionally. I feel like I don't really belong at home anymore, but I really don't want to go back to college and leave Richard. So I'm in an in-between place that I'm not really fond of, personally. Oh well.
I'm not online often at all, so call me if you want to get in touch :)
P.S. Hailley, I owe you a phone call- expect it sometime soon, perhaps monday a little after 9 |
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| 10:31pm 29/05/2006 |
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Sooo... I've been home for a little over a week...
sorry if I haven't seen people yet- I've been busy cleaning my room !!! Still not done, though I've been working on it for quite a few days. It'll get done. I threw out a lot of junk and am getting rid of a lot more junk, etc. I'm also organizing, so that I'll know roughly where everything is. Should be interesting...
I start work tomorrow morning at 8 at the Wendell Veterinary Clinic. I'll be working full-time, which will be nice, aside from the my-schedule-is-almost-exactly-completely-opposite-from-Richard's part... oh well. We'll make it, we have this far. It'a a 40-45 minute drive, which isn't that bad. I'll be leaving the house at 7 am to get there on time, working (hopefully) monday, tuesday, thursday, friday and saturday, so I'll have sunday and wednesday off. That'll be nice.
Other than that, not much is new.... *shrug*
See everyone later!!!
*HUGS*
~Laura |
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| 10:26pm 15/05/2006 |
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So I'm realizing that it's incredibly weird that I'm not going to be here for too much longer, and that I'm going to be packing all of my belongings up into boxes and bags and relocating back home. It's a very strange feeling, and it seems like just a few weeks ago that I moved in here. I hate the feeling of moving, relocating after I've gotten to a point where I feel this accustomed to my surroundings. It's weird to feel as though I'm leaving my room, which has been mine and only mine for the past eight months and going back to a room that's mine only in that I sleep there. There is absolutely nothing keeping people from going through my room except for their word that they wont. I feel so displaced. I'm leaving so many friends and going home to other friends, but it will never be the same again. It's so strange.
*sigh*
I don't know what to think, really. I don't belong at home anymore- I need to have my own place in the world, to be able to leave my mark on the world, my own "I was here and did something important" stamp. And I don't know how to do that. I feel like something's not quite right, and I'm not sure what it is. Not in my personal life, but academically. I need to reassess where I'm headed with my life, and try to figure out where I'm headed with it.
I need to run. To fly away, somehow.
~Laura
P.S. Don't worry, I'll land back in your arms :-* I love you so much |
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| 10:55pm 14/05/2006 |
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tomorrow is going to suck. BIG TIME
Reason why, you may ask? My chem final. My passing the class is contingent upon me passing this exam. And unfortunately, it's NOT looking promising.
I am so not looking forward to it, and I really just want to curl up in a ball and cry until it all goes away. This is why it's good that the school year is almost over.
I go home in just over 5 days.
*shakey breath*
I can make it. I hope
I'm on the verge of an emotional breakdown, and it's not looking good.
I have just recently been struck with wanderlust, though I've known for a while that I need to spend a summer away from home, living on my own. not this summer, but the next. I don't know where I'll go, but I know I need to. any suggestions as to where I should go?
I need to run away, to know what it's like to have to really do with just a little, to know what it's like to have to support myself completely.
I feel so strange :-/
*sigh*
~Laura
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| 03:29pm 11/05/2006 |
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And so the countdown begins: 9 days until I get to go home. whoopee!
It's really weird to contemplate leaving here to go back home... I actually have come to really like this little room and that I can call it my own without worrying about the possibility of other people invading my space. We'll see how that goes at home. I think that I'm going to completely clean my room this summer, which should be interesting. Oh well.
I'm really going to miss a lot of people here as well, which I really didn't think would happen. I really like having everyone here within just a few minutes walk from me. I'm also going to miss the fact that I walk everywhere here. At home I don't walk hardly anywhere just because everything is so far apart. We'll see how that works.
Richard was here for a few days, which was wonderful. We went to the AZ formal, which was loads of fun. We also went to Toughannock (or however the hell you spell that) falls, Hickey's Music Store and various other places. It was much fun. But, unfortunately he had to go home, so we have to go back to missing each other, which sucks. But, we'll make it, no worries.
I'm really looking forward to this summer, though, which is good. I miss home a lot, even though I have a lot of friends here. It's just not the same. It looks as though I may be working for Doc Johnson at his vet clinic, but we shall see.
Ack, alright, I have to actually go study now. Woo-hoo.
What stands between me and home:
chem final
ansci final
genetics final
everything else is done. *does a happy dance*
unfortunately, it is a possibility that I might fail chemistry, which is bad. Oh well. Such is life
Adios all!
~Laura
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| 05:18pm 27/04/2006 |
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well, on that note... I have homework to do
adios!
~Laura
P.S. :-* I love you, even if brian is my beautiful and exotic (but deadly!) eastern lieutenant. |
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| 06:58pm 25/04/2006 |
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I want to go home.
That is all.
~Laura |
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| 02:12am 15/04/2006 |
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There are noises coming from my sinkmate's room... :-\ I think she's having sex with her boyfriend. Loudly. *shudder* *turns music up*
So today was long. Lecture, seminar, lunch, skinning lab, goat showing, dinner, mall, Kelly's room.
Lecture- boring as usual. Got prelim back. Bad.
Seminar- annoying as usual. Must write paper this weekend. Ick.
Lunch- chicken quesadilla. tasty. New compost bins. Ecologically sound!
Skinning lab- started skinning a junco. Almost done. Yay!
Goat showing- felt like I was ordering people around. Oh wait, I was. Instructive for them. Slightly tedious for me. Went well. Fitting clinic sunday.
Dinner- grilled chicken, salad, fries, froyo. Tasty. Fortune cookies = fun. Friends. Good.
Mall- Old Navy- flip flops. cheap. yay.
Spencers- amusing.
Target- notebook, compy games(aquarium simulator!), markers. Fun. Yay.
Kelly's room- reading, Black Adder, Caroline. Friends. Fun.
Coming attractions:
Saturday- Goat Chores, JOHN CLEESE!!!!!, Party for Bryan?
Sunday- Fitting Clinic
Homework(weekend)- 6 page shrooms paper, 3-4 page FWS paper, quail lab(?), chem lab(?), genetics lab
Monday-Wednesday- Goatness!
Friday- set up for block & bridle show
Saturday- 4-H day!
Sunday- B & B show! Tom's 16th birthday (good god, I feel old)
Friday-Sunday- Parental visit.
That is all
*MUAH*
~Laura
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| 04:23pm 12/04/2006 |
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I have a six page paper to write today/tonight/this morning. Heh....
It's not going to be pretty.
Oh, and something that I learned today? It is wednesday, not thursday. I felt kinda dumb when I realized that I made that mistake. Whoopsies.
Well, I should go do work so that (hopefully) I can go spend some time with the goats that are on campus! wOOt!
adios for now.
~Laura
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| 10:39pm 11/04/2006 |
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So it's been a while since I've last updated. A long while. Here goes for the ultra-fast update...
So in the past few weeks I've:
-Been initiated into AZ
-Gotten new asthma medication. wOOt
-Taken three major tests
-Spent a week at AZ- like, sleeping over
-Started organizing a student-run livestock show
-Listened to my mix. A lot.
-Designed and built a piano bench out of plywood and moulding
-Designed and built two "pledge paddles" (glorified plaques)
-Gotten my mushrooms midterm back- an A! wOOt!
-Learned that the curator of the birds collection at work is pregnant. wOOt!
-Bought two Betas :)
-Planted flower seeds, which are just beginning to sprout :)
-Cleaned up the side of the road (AZ Adopt-a-highway)
-Found two skeletons, which I (hopefully) will be able to go pick up sometime)
-Done a large-ish animal science project
-Watched quail porn!
In the next few weeks I'll:
-Interview someone
-Write a 6-page paper
-Orchestrate a dairy goat show
-Do lots of bullshit assignments
-Have more asthma doctor's appointments. yay
-Try to have fun
-Count down the days until May 8... and then May 20.
I want to go home. :(
But I know I have to be here for a while yet, unfortunately. Ugh. oh well.
I guess I should go accomplish something... adios
*MUAH*
~Laura |
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| 05:29pm 14/03/2006 |
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Happiness is trying on a dress that was too tight six months ago and having it be *almost* too loose :-D
AZ is having a spring formal sometime in early may... but unfortunately I think it's on a weekend :(
I get to have Richard with me in less than a week
I think that I'm starting to understand chem again. woo!
I folded laundry today
I'll do dishes later, methinks.
I'm going to do chem with Caleb and whoever else after dinner
I got to speak with Richard last night, even if I was asleep when he called.
I actually got a full night's sleep last night!
well, now that you are all thoroughly bored, I'ma go call my daddy now!
*MUAH*
~Laura |
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| 11:21pm 11/03/2006 |
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So I just planned my "tentative" course schedule for the next three years. Just looking at it makes me depressed. So I'll be taking between 19 and 21 credits each semester just so that I can take all of the classes that I need to take plus the classes that I want to take. I have concluded that the problem is that there are too many things that I want to do. Even with near the maximum number of credits each semester, I still can't take all of the classes that I want to. Gah!
Damn the system!
*sigh*
Oh well.
I'm sure that at this point, most of you are muttering "over-achiever" under your breaths.
Yes, I am. And damn proud of it, too!
See, this is why I'm not sure about vet school anymore... I'm not sure I could withstand 8 years of torture like this. *sigh*
I really don't want to have a nervous breakdown.
Is the semester over yet?
Can I go home now?
No?
Damn.
*MUAH*
~Laura
P.S. I love you.
P.P.S. I'm taking intro to music theory next year, so I'll expect you to help me as best you can over phone and internet :-D I love you! |
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| 06:37pm 08/03/2006 |
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:-/
If I was religious, I would pray.
But I'm not.
My thoughts are with you, my love, as always.
*MUAH*
<3 Laura |
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| 10:25pm 06/03/2006 |
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interesting.
So. It's been a while.
In the last few weeks I've:
-bombed two prelims. woo!
-passed one prelim with a good grade.
-gone home for a weekend
-talked with friends
-cried
-twice
-met lots of AZ people. I love you guys!
-fought
-talked on the phone. A lot
-traveled over 14 hours in three days
-seen Hailley
-spent time with Richard :-D
-ate chocolate
-gotten lost
-smiled
-laughed
-blushed
-hidden a hickey from my parents
-sang loudly while walking down the street
-been so in love that I can't describe it
Life, all in all, has been pretty good.
Except for the prelims
which means that I will be spending oodles and oodles of time studying to make up for the bad grades. I hope that works, 'cause if it doesn't, I'm screwed.
So now I'm off to do that homework thing and then talk to Richard, hopefully, and still get to sleep at a semi-decent hour. Not too much work tonight- I should have time for other work tomorrow.
well, I suppose that's it. Lots on my mind, but not things that I'm willing to discuss here. Ask me if ye dare.
adios, mis amigas!
*MUAH*
~Laura
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