The top 100 or so books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the books you have read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. [Got this from a fellow blogger.] Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi : a novel The Name of the Rose Don Quixote Moby Dick Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The Tale of Two Cities The Brothers Karamazov Guns, Germs, and Steel War and Peace Vanity Fair The Time Traveler’s Wife The Iliad Emma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books Memoirs of a Geisha Middlesex Quicksilver Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West The Canterbury Tales The Historian : a novel A Portrait of the Artist as a

[From an e-mail purporting to reproduce fourth-graders' answers on science exams.] Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink. A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists. [Who knew??]

...if the dust is visible. Check. ...if the dust is actually obscuring parts of the floor. Check, at least behind the furniture! ...if you have so many books they're filling up boxes that lay around the room. Check. ...if you have slight troubles traversing the distance from your desk to your bed to your closet. Check. ...if you don't even wear half the clothes filling your dresser. Check. ...if you haven't even lived at home for several months. Double-check. Thus, I have kept relatively busy over the past day and a half. :-P

Yep, I'm moved out of the dorm and enjoying life with my family. :-)

So I was at a "homework party" last night. And you know how much homework gets done at these things... A friend of mine got on Facebook's "Pieces of Flair" application (like Bumper Sticker only snazzy and smooth), and by about eleven last night had sifted through 136 pages of Flair. He made it to 201 pages this morning.

My goodness, was April 30th really the last time I posted here?? Well plenty has happened in the first ten days of May. I had my last class day of the year; had not one, not two, but THREE days of choir concerts (well, two days were tours to area schools and the third day was the actual hour-long concert); attended two concerts in which I actually did not perform (one conglomerate band concert and one large choir concert); finished a video project of which I'm quite proud; and generally had plenty of time on my hands even after I'd done all the work I was supposed to do! I even got time to sing with friends again, hanging out after the band concert. We had four parts at one point, and we blended really well! Fortunately everyone reads music better than I do, so I can simply sing the soprano part that I know and the rest can do whatever they want with harmony. :-) We've had really good weather for awhile now too.... until about two days ago. It got dreary and drizzly, so