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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
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9:24 am
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No more class! My last week of classes went really pretty well. Monday my piano lesson was cancelled. Tuesday I had no flute lesson AND Heyser cancelled our last biopsych lab which was awesome, since I then had nothing at all to do after 12 noon. So I went christmas shopping! Wednesday I had a lesson in Miller and it sounded so cool in there, and i finished my lab relatively early. Then my flute girl was sick for like the 5th time this semester so I didn't have to teach. I think something's up with that...no one gets sick that much. Orchestra kinda sucked, cause we were reading/recording the composition class pieces, but I got music for next semester too. I'm playing piccolo for both superbowl concert thing pieces I got...so that should be rather interesting considering I haven't played my picc since the last superbowl concert. Oh well. Then a bunch of us winds hung out in Jazzman's for a while...and Greg needed to get my tuner from his house. But on the way he made us stop at this party thing for the "intervarsity christian fellowship" because he wanted the free food, and said they couldn't yell at us because if they don't share that's gluttony and they will go to hell. Yeah. So i felt kinda uncomfortable there amongst the jesus freaks, and this girl knew who I was and I had no idea what her name was and I felt really bad. But then I remembered like an hour later. Anyway then I got my tuner and went home and Lisa was having a mental breakdown, so that's always fun. Then Thursday was good. I had my last 2 classes (cause Carbon cancelled our last theory class for Friday!) and a rehearsal with Rosemary in Miller. That was kinda weird cause my piece is strange...and it's supposed to be orchestra not piano. But then I went to HOSTS which went pretty well. Came back to campus and had my dreaded sightsinging final, and I got an A!! I kinda cheated, cause I knew one of the melodies...but I still solfeged it and it wasn't my fault i knew it. And yesterday I played in the snow and had a flute recital. And played Shawna's cool flutes. A gold one!! Oh and Lisa's mom took us to Ruby Tuesday. But I really gotta walk Mizzie now. I dunno what they're doing to her down there.
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| Monday, June 27th, 2005
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9:15 pm - Highlights.
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Well, I thought this festival thing was gonna be lame but it's actually pretty fun. We went to Philly on Saturday to see a concert. I thought we were gonna get more free food but, alas, we had to get our own dinner. So our little group of winds went to Olive Garden and it was...interesting. There was this waiter who had one of those fake mowhawks...like normally cut hair but they spike a line of it up right down the middle. And this hair was really bothering Audrey for some reason, she thought it was really stupid. She wanted to know what his name was, so we tried to look at his tag, and she said it was 3 letters long but she couldn't tell what they were. Then I overheard him talking and he was bloody British!! ...which totally made up for the hair. But we still didn't know his name, so we started referring to him as Francesco. Finally, someone dared Audrey to talk to him because she wouldn't shut up about him, so she called him over and, while laughing hysterically, asked him to take a picture of our group. Then when he walked away we all burst out laughing and started talking about it, even though he was still right next to our table. Oops. So now I have this picture of us taken by "Francesco" on my disposable camera. Oh yeah, and I got a glimpse of his nametag after he took the picture: it said Herman.
Then yesterday my quartet (which remains nameless) played a dinner gig at The Pressroom downtown, which is a really nice restaurant. Actually, we played outside in the little park-ish area next to it where we've played before, but we ate for free at The Pressroom. So, on somewhat of a dare, I got "Buttermilk Crispy Quails." And those quails were freakin' good! And there were garlic mashed potatoes and green beans and like a creamy mushroom sauce. Then we all got dessert to go since we were late for a concert. So I got a $30 meal for free, and there were 5 of us!
In other news, I saw an amusing bumper sticker today: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Touche, little red car! And this was really funny to me too...this morning there was some discussion about what would happen if the elevator closed on Charlie...then we'd have 3 bassoonists!
A final highlight, and more evidence that people are retarded. A few days ago I was on Marietta driving to afternoon rehearsal and at this point they were still directing traffic on the N. President intersection, so i was stopped dead in the road and sitting in a line of cars. So we're directed to go finally, but the car in front of me starts to slowly back up. I backed up a little so the driver, a little old lady, can mend her retarded ways and put the bloody car in drive. But no, she just keeps rolling back like the prices at Wal Mart until she bumps into my car. (Here comes the profanity.) So I'm like shit lady what the hell are you doing!?! I honked at her several times throughout the process, both before and after our automotive contact, and the only response I get is a little wave. Gee thanks, lady, it's nice to know you're alive in there, dumbass. So i back up a little more and she fucking rams into my car again. Not hard, but still that's not the point. Meanwhile there is a whole slew of cars behind me that can't get by and I'm sitting here with this senile bitch mutilating my car and my sanity. Plus I'm late for rehearsal. So after literally close to 5 minutes she finally puts the thing in drive. THIS IS WHY OLD PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE. There was no damage to my car really, but I'm still pretty PO'd about the whole situation.
Anyway, cool. Tomorrow we get free lunch (i think) and definately free dinner...obviously I'm just in this for the free food. Yeah, ok, a lot more has happened the past few days, but I'm sick of writing. I want some quails...
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current mood:  amused
current music: that Bartok thing
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| Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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5:55 pm
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Update: the computer center is open during the summer for a few hours each day, so hopefully I will get a chance to either pick up a new battery or drop of my computer someday this week since I'm here and I don't need it for school or anything. Anyway, I have to perform tonight in Miller with the flute quartet. It should be ok, it's only part of a movement, and it's really not a formal performance. I got new music today for a wind quintet to start tomorrow, another flute quartet which I really like and I get to play 1st on, but apparently Jennifer couldn't get a pianist to do the Franck with me. So i think she said i could do some Beethoven thing instead, but I dunno. Damn, it might have been kinda fun to play that whole thing, but I did already perform half of it. Two of the other flutists get to play with a harpsichord, which sounds really cool because I'm a dork. I need to eat soon so I can get to Miller by 7:15, but Lisa isn't back yet and i don't know what to make or how to make anything. Grrr. Oh well. Happy summer.
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| Monday, June 20th, 2005
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5:12 pm - Oh, Lancaster. How I've missed you!
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Yay for wireless internet! Lisa got it for the townhouse so now (once I finally decide to get a new battery), I can go anywhere in the house or even outside and use the internet...and for right now i just go from one outlet to another. And it's free cause she bought it!! I'm so cheap. And limewire works now cause we're not on the school network with all the blocks. The townhouse is lookin good. The kitchen actually matches itself, but the living room is slightly random. It looks ok though. We just need more wall decorations all over...it's way too white in here. So right now I'm on a really long break from my music thing, it's great. We started our afternoon flute quartet rehearsal at 1:30 and left about 3:15, and the only other thing today is a concert at 8 that I don't even necissarily need to go to. I feel like I should though since Jennifer my flute teacher is playing in it...and I've never actually heard george crumb circle music before. should be interesting...or just suck. I think I should ask doris to give me a clarinet lesson. she likes me and she's really cool. i always think of sarah telling me about the parties she gives at her house after their clarinet recitals where she would give her students alcohol. that's funny. anyway, i have to perform tomorrow with the quartet, so hopefully i won't screw up too badly. anyway, back to the house. now i need to learn how to cook some easy but yummy stuff that doesn't involve milk. so far we haven't had anything that actually involved actual cooking...last night we just made salads...and cookies....and the night before robyn came over to see the house and we all ordered chinese. she's working here over the summer and lives in an apartment close to campus and yelled at us for living so far away. but the close ones are yucky and expensive and loud and i would probably have to walk to campus. this is much nicer. i've seen some other people i know too. well stephanie from my psych class is staying with us in the townhouse during the week cause she's taking the same class as lisa. and my friend elisabeth from orchestra and chris from pit are here working in the college center, except i havent seen them for a few days. actually that's a lie, i saw chris yesterday. oh and i hope baby doesn't die while i'm here. she hadn't eaten for like a week when i left and i didn't get to see her bloodwork results. poor old kitty. oy. alright i'm sick of this.
current mood:  lazy
current music: That 70's Show
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| Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
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7:16 pm - feeling the urge to kill
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Wow, it's been almost a month.
I'm barely on the computer at home. Partly because my mom is on all day (not that I'm home, but still), my sister is on all evening and sometimes my dad is on this one too. I don't get internet on my laptop at home so that makes it hard. Anyway, I had a pretty shitty day at work today. Dr. O'Donnell is a first class bitch, seriously. It's horrible, she treats all of us like shit. Even Dr. Agresta. She never says good morning, even to him, she just walks in and rearranges the file cards and pretends to read them. She is a complete control freak. The other day I was doing an appointment with her and in the other room Heather and Dr. A were opening a package from UPS. She walks right out of the appointment back to where they were to elaborately explain to them what was in the box, loud enough so the client in the appointment could hear. That's just rude. She has two distinct tones to her voice. To the clients she uses this sickeningly sweet baby-talk voice and she goes back and fourth talking to the owner and the pet in the same annoying voice. It is rediculously condescending. Then when talking to me, Heather, Amanda, Gina, and even Mrs. Agresta she has this snappy, snobbish voice that would make anyone feel like they were a complete idiot and that she was the all-knowing master of the universe. I HATE that. And she smells. No one knows what it is, but it is nasty.
I could go on for days with all the shit she puts us all through, but this is the incident from today that has got me racking my brain, wondering what the hell she was thinking. This 75-lb. border collie came in today for a routine exam and vaccines. Usually border collies are really hyperactive and bouncy, but this one was perfectly calm and a really sweet dog. So at the end of the appointment she decides to brush out the huge mats behind his ears. The clippers were right there, but for some unknown reason she decides that it would be a better idea to put the poor dog through hell by vigorously pulling the knotted hair out from behind his ears with the comb. Good fucking idea, lady. It took about 10 minutes, and the dog was obviously in pain the entire time. After a while he resorted to trying to bury his head in the steel table. He was squirming uncontrollably even though both his owner and I were holding him down. But hey, the knots are gone! So now I have a couple of huge bloody scratches across my arm from this, and I'm sure the dog will be all knotted up again in a matter of days. WHY DIDN'T SHE JUST SHAVE THE BLOODY MATS!?
That was very elaborate and complainy, but I just can't take this much longer. Lori quit while I was away at school because of some stupid argument Dr. O had cause which allegedly ended in her shoving Lori. Unfortunately, no one was there to see it so she can't sue. She quit about a month after that because of the hostility. I miss Lori, because she didn't put up with all her shit. Dr. A seriously needs to do something, because it is just wrong for her to treat people like this. If not, Heather and I need to come up with a plan. I need some advice on how to retaliate subtly to her bloated ego.
Peace.
current mood:  aggravated
current music: A Perfect Circle- Pet
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| Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
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4:07 pm - Moving on...
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Well that was a fun exam...music history... She did not ask nearly enough questions about the example pieces, it was rather disappointing. And the secornd part was fun, not really, but i do want to know what the mystery pieces are...but that damn chronology is driving me insane! I cannot put two things in chronological order if one is a person and the other is a piece that was written during that person's lifetime, it just can't be done. I guess i should have mentioned something to her, but too late. Maybe I'm just retarded. So by putting the person first because he was born before the piece was written, I guess that made a little sense. Bullshit. And my essay was retarded, and i didn't know exactly what she meant by form, so I rambled on about forms and genres and the like. I love how we got the essay question about a week in advance and I just didn't give a damn. Now I have english at 7, and I suppose I should study since I only did for about 20 minutes so far. Oh yeah, and I think I'm gonna minor in English. I already have half of it done and I want to take 19th century brit lit anyway, so that only leaves one other course and a seminar. Fun!! Well, we'll see.
Ha! And I didn't have to move my car!
current mood: calm
current music: random stuff from class
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11:16 am - Oh, I'm so proud!
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 | You scored as Romanticist. Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down.
Romanticist | | 75% | Postmodernist | | 69% | Modernist | | 56% | Cultural Creative | | 56% | Materialist | | 56% | Existentialist | | 38% | Fundamentalist | | 31% | Idealist | | 25% | </td>
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current mood: anxious
current music: Debussy- Nuages
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| Monday, May 2nd, 2005
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6:28 pm - Finals: the least studying EVER
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Studying for english is pointless, and apparently now so is studying for music history. I think I've memorized all the titles and opus numbers, and I know some basic crap about each of them. And the essay on form? I'll make up something involving fugues, sonata form, maybe some rondo or theme & variations, and the craziness of Symphonie Fantastique and beyond. Oh yeah, and leitmotives and serialism...I think minimaism is also sort of a form. Wow, I know more than I thought I did. But still, I'm supposed to study with Andrea around 9 tonight. So basically, I will be teaching this crap to Andrea. Oh well, that helps me anyway. I'm still convinced thet the Mahler song about the dead babies is one of the most brilliant and creepy things ever. There's barely anything to it, it's just basically voice with sporatic solos and duets in the orchestra, but it's just so much more powerful than, say, Wagner. For me, anyway. And screw english, I can make it up. I looked over my notes once anyway. I am, however, still conflicted about whether I will move my car. I'm not sure I buy the whole "get out of your own parking lot" scenerio, but maybe I'm just paranoid. I'll decide in the morning. Um...oh yeah and I found out that I got a 99 on the third music test, so that's a 97, 95, 99 for the 3 tests. Plus I got full credit on all the concert reports PLUS an extra credit one and I'm sure I did fine on the paper...so do I really even need to study for this at all?!? Bring it on, lady. I'm obviosly a music history genious, and you are on crack.
...and yay! for permanent philharmonia!!
current mood:  productive
current music: everything but Philomel
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| Sunday, May 1st, 2005
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4:21 pm - "if you cry i swear to god i'll set your head on fire"
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So, I currently have a medium-large sized suitcase, medium duffle bag, smallish plastic bag thing, huge Kohl's bag and a huge hamper of dirty clothes packed to go home. And I haven't even touched my dresser yet. Plus I've packed most of my shoes, lotion 'n crap, unnessecary books, my other set of sheets & towels, and some miscellaneous junk. And there's so much more. But, after I took Stacy to the train station and back I got a relatively sweet spot right in back of S Ben. So I am NOT moving my car until I leave school. I'm supposed to go to Issac's with Lisa...actually that was supposed to be on Wed. afternoon and I'll be gone before then now...I guess I sould tell her that...but my car is NOT moving!! Damnit, now I'm craving Issac's. Anyway, I returned all my library books today, practiced, and still had no luck at ATS. And I'm not even gonna bother spending my flex like a madman, there's just toooo much. All that damn takeout and, oh yeah, eating breakfast about 6 times this entire year. Oh, and I still don't know how to get my Nolt award money. Damn you, Brian Norcross. Maybe he'll be in his office tomorrow, or else I suppose I must email him. This is why leaving early is more stressful than leaving on a normal, decent day. Packing is tedious, and... oh fuck! My fridge!! Defrostation must occur!! Maybe...Tuesday night?? Whatever. But 3 nights left in this shithole and I am outta here for good. Thank god. This bed is beginning to hurt again, and NO MORE DHALL FOOD!! =D
Oh yeah, and "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was the best show ever, well the original ones anyway, and I really wanna watch it.
current mood:  hungry
current music: Nirvana- The Man Who Sold the World
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| Friday, April 29th, 2005
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3:15 pm - Grrrrrr
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I went to go make copies of recital tapes at ATS for an application. Well, I looked in the listings and they only had one of our recitals, which is weird because I could have sworn that the other day when I checked there was at least one more. And I checked at least 3 times today. Well, i copied the one tape they did have and it fucking stopped in the middle of my piece. I flipped it over to the other side and it just went right on to the next person. Besides that, the recording sounded like shit anyway. So then I went to the Music dep't to ask if they had a recording of the recital we just had a few weeks ago, and she told me she had already brought it to ATS. Well, lady, it wasn't there when I went 15 minutes ago. And those guys at ATS were completely useless, so I'm gonna try again Sunday and hopefully different people wil be working there. Otherwise, I guess I have to make my own recording either here or maybe I can ask Kim Collins to do it when I get home. But they require one with a piano accompaniment anyway, so either way they're gonna get a rather shitty recording of half a recital unless I can find the other recording.
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| Thursday, April 28th, 2005
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8:57 pm - Let the relaxation BEGIN!
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Bold the movies you have seen. Then at the end add a movie that is not on here and post it in your journal.
01. Trainspotting
02. Shrek
03. Memento
04. Dogma
05. Strictly Ballroom
06. The Princess Bride
07. Love Actually
08. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
09. The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11. Reservoir Dogs
12. Desperado
13. Swordfish
14. Kill Bill Vol. 1
15. Donnie Darko
16. Spirited Away
17. Better Than Sex
18. Sleepy Hollow
19. Pirates of the Caribbean
20. The Eye
21. Requiem for a Dream
22. Dawn of the Dead
23. The Pillow Book
24. The Italian Job
25. Goonies
26. BASEketball
27. The Spice Girls Movie
28. Army of Darkness
29. The Color Purple
30. The Safety of Objects
31. Can't Hardly Wait
32. Mystic Pizza
33. Finding Nemo
34. Monsters Inc.
35. Circle of Friends
36. Mary Poppins
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Forrest Gump
39. A Clockwork Orange
40. Kindergarten Cop
41. On The Line
42. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
43. Final Destination
44. Sorority Boys
45. Urban Legend
46. Cheaper by the Dozen
47. Fierce Creatures
48. Dude, Where's My Car?
49. Ladyhawke
50. Ghostbusters
51. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
52. Back to the Future
53. An Affair To Remember
54. Somewhere In Time
55. North By Northwest
56. Moulin Rouge
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
58. The Wizard of Oz
59. Zoolander
60. A Walk to Remember
61. Chicago
62. Vanilla Sky
63. The Sweetest Thing
64. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
65. The Nightmare Before Christmas
66. Chasing Amy
67. Edward Scissorhands
67. Battle Royale
68. Kill Bill Vol. 2
69. Fight Club
70. Clerks
71. The Crow
72. Get Real
73. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
74. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
75. Wake
76. Silence of the Lambs
77. Pulp Fiction
78. The Crying Game
79. Amelie
80. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
81. Happy Campers
82. Velvet Goldmine
83. Elephant
4. Peter Pan
85. Camp
86. Particles of Truth
87. The Godfather
88. Big Fish
89. The Passion of the Christ
90. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
91. The Neverending Story
92. The Breakfast Club
93. Newsies
94. Princess Mononoke
95. The Prince of Egypt
96. Grease
97. The Hidden Fortress
98. Troy
99. It Happened One Night
100. Hackers
101. Dead Poets Society
102. Ghost Ship
103. The Wedding Banquet
104. The Red Violin
105. The Beach
106. The Women
107. Run Lola Run
108. The Quiet Man
109. X-Men
110. X-2
111. Spiderman
112. Punch Drunk Love
113. From Dusk 'Til Dawn
114. Joe Vs. The Volcano
115. Meet Joe Black
116. Gregory's Girl
117. In the Time of the Butterflies
118. The Butterfly Effect
119. Dirty Dancing
120. Final Destination 2
121. Rosemary's Baby
122. Spider-Man 2
123. Practical Magic
124. A Shark Tale
125. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
126. Sweet Home Alabama
127. American Beauty
128. Rocky Horror Picture Show
129. American Psycho
130. American History X
131. Ray
132. Waking Life
133. I Heart Huckabees
134. Garden State
135. What the Bleep Do We Know
136. Gone In 60 Seconds
137. 8 Mile
138. Blow
139. Napoleon Dynamite
140. Bend it Like Beckham
141. Charlie's Angels
142. Charlies Angels: Full Throttle
143. Along Came Polly
144. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
145. The Day After Tomorrow
146. Scarface
147. The Last Samurai
148. GoodFellas
149. Casino
150. The Punisher
151. The Matrix
152. The Matrix Reloaded
153. The Matrix Revolutions
154. The Animatrix
155. ORGASMO
156. Falling Down
157. Phantom of the Opera (not the new one)
158. Sylvia
159. Steamboy
160. Nightmare on Elm Street
161. Bulletproof Monk
162. Secret Window
163. Braveheart
164. Girl, Interrupted
List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you've read. Italicise the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of).
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
...i need to read more.
current mood: relaxed
current music: The Beatles-Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
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10:51 am
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My plan for the day:
Go to tutoring. Don't really wanna, but whatever it's the last day and I haven't done it in a month. Then I will park on college ave, or maybe even in front of whitely if i have to, then walk back to campus. Then eventually I will do my psych presemtation, which should go pretty well i'm thinkin. Then after class i'm gonna get right in my car and go to Rita's and have a one person end-of-classes party there. And i just realized that it's right next to CVS, and I need to buy a cassette tape to make things easier on myself when I copy my recital tapes for an application. So there you have it. Then maybe I'll go somewhere else, because as of about 4pm today I have nothing to do until, say, Sunday or Monday. Oh yeah, pack.
current mood: excited
current music: Rammstein's Schnappi
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| Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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11:22 pm - My brother, I might just have to get medieval on your heine
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Oh sweetness!! I totally aced my neuro final today. I knew almost everything except for guessing on one or 2 little points. Then at my flute lesson Jen gave me a list of like 20 pieces that I should learn before I graduate, and it was kind of exciting. And I was excited cause I wanted to play the Prokofiev sonata next semester, just for something different, and that was one of the things she mentioned. But there's another thing I'm supposed to do for the concerto competition, so maybe another semester for that. And today I couldn't tell if I suck or not. Apparently according to John Carbon I was noticably sharp during the recital for all the high notes. Son of a bitch. Jen never told me that, maybe because it's to be expected, or maybe it was just nerves, or maybe it was barely noticible and he was just being a prick, but now I'm really self-conscious about my playing. Thanks. But then again I guess that's a good thing. At least i'll have a few weeks off to work on that...or not. The concert tonight kinda sucked, mostly because I never practiced the music and we only had 3 rehearsals with it, and some of it was pretty hard. I really wanna play Planets though. Oh man, this is really sad, but I literally was on the verge of tears during the pretty part of Jupiter tonight, while I was playing too. it just gets to me. It's amazing.
Yeah, and english is done too till the final, and the short answer people won the vote! Who would rather answer one big essay for 2 hours, honestly? So I guess it'll be like the midterm, which was sickeningly easy. I might not even have to read Diderot. And for this week, all that's left after tutoring is my psych presentation tomorrow. I've finished the proposal and am on the very last slide of my powerpoint! My busy-ness is OVER for the year!! But I can't think of any other questions to ask in future studies, so i'm gonna go drink some tea.
current mood:  nostalgic
current music: ...Jupiter
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1:30 am - i'm sensing an addiction here...
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so i got myself all hyped up on caffiene cause my ability to concentrate and study was waning. i dont think i'd had caffiene all day. amazing. i am totally addicted. so now i'm not gonna be able to sleep after drinking a delicious cup of cinnamon tea (including 3 packets of sugar and at least 2 tsp of honey...oh it was heavenly) and about 1/3 of a 20 oz cherry coke. I looked up the actions of caffiene online, not only because i am a dork but also because i'm studying for neuro and one of the sections is about drug addiction. sadly caffiene was excluded from the class, but it basically works the same was as cocaine and amphetamines, just not as drastically. so now i've got all this excess dopamine and adrenaline and i don't know what to do with it!!!!!!!!! damn you guys!!
current mood:  caffienated
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| Monday, April 25th, 2005
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6:31 pm - This was inevitable...
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Oh boy. I'm going to be a wreck this whole week but i'm definately not in over my head. Music paper AND presentation is done and over with. I was proud of myself, I gave a 5-minute oral presentation with no note cards or anything, I just talked about my paper. I was only a little nervous and I think i wasn't 100% coherent, but it was close enough. The psychopathology presenation is gonna be easy now that I've had some "practice," plus with that one I'll have a powerpoint so I don't have to worry about getting off track of brain-freezes. I just gotta make that powerpoint...and finish the paper part too. Almost there. My english essay is technically done, although I'm not sure how good it is, but i'm also not sure that I entirely care. I think my ideas and most of my arguments are good, it's just that the paper's structure is very random. I just kinda went from one idea to the next as it came to my mind, so I hope that my thought process is at least somewhat connected. So basically, if i decide that it's good enough then i am done with that class until the final. and english tests are easy. then- neuro. Exam on wednesday and then i'm completely done with that class. I started studying a bit and i think i've got schizophrenia down pretty good. Those neuroleptics are harsh...i would rather die. And they used to be used as fucking pesticides. That can't be good. It makes me very sad. Anyway, then it's finals. English...easy. Music...easy. Psychopathology...might take a bit of work, but definately do-able. Especially since I'm pretty sure it's not cumulative. Plus I've been learning most of the same stuff in neuro so i know it well. Except for that sexual d/o stuff, you know, transsexuals and people w/ fetishes and junk. Good fun. Oy. Oh yeah and Heather just called me wondering when I'd be working. Jesus H. Chist I'm not even home yet! Oh crap gotta go to orchestra. Oh I miss Brahms.
current mood: accomplished
current music: get it outta my head!!!
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| Sunday, April 24th, 2005
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4:52 pm - The end is near
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ok, so, i am right in the middle of my english paper writing process. I have 2 pages out of 5-7, meaning 5. Then again, my 8-10 page music paper ended up being 15 pages, so i guess you never know. i was a little worried because i havent read any of the secondary sources, and the essay things i'm writing on i havent read in a while, but this is actually quite easy. the only thing is that in the process of developing an argument i kinda contradicted my thesis, so i guess that now i need to change it. oh well i'll do that later. then, when i finish, i need to make a really good introduction and conclusion to my music paper which is due tomorrow. then, if there is any time left, i might just start studying for neuro, as in skimming my notes. it'll be ok if i dont get to it tho, i'll have time mon&tues. After that, my only real concern for the week (besides the conducter's concert) is my psychopathology presentation and proposal. I'm almost done with the written proposal, i just have to figure out exactly what kind of ANOVA i need and then make a powerpoint. i think with a powerpoint and a thoruogh knowledge of what the hell i'm talking about i should be ok with the oral presentation. oh!! i just realized that stacey is probably in stats so i can see if i can borrow her book because i dont remember anything about ANOVA. so yeah, i think i've got this all planned out. this week is obviously gonna suck. bring it on.
current mood: working
current music: brahms 4, 3rd movement, for the last time
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| Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
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3:07 am - cant sleep, brain too overworked...
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You Are A Fig Tree |
You are very independent and strong minded.
A hard worker when you want to be, you play hard too.
You are honest and loyal. You hate contradiction or arguments.
You love life, and you live for your friends, children, and animals.
A great sense of humor, artistic talent, and intelligence are all gifts you possess. |
You Are Best Described By... |
The Scream
By Edvard Munch
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You are |
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You Will Die at Age 67 |
67
You're pretty average when it comes to how you live...
And how you'll die as well. |
Your Inner European is French! |
Smart and sophisticated.
You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so. |
You May Be a Bit Borderline ... |
Your mood swings make a roller coaster look tame!
When you're up, you're a little bit crazy...
And when you're down, your whole world is crashing
Scary thing is, these moods can change by the minute! |
...um, i am SO not borderline...
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12:22 am - Welcome to Hell
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Holy crap. That was just the most horrifying experience of my life. I was sitting in the library innocently writing my paper (at about 11:55 on a Friday night during spring arts weekend...how cool am i!?) when all of a sudden all the lights go out. It was almost pitch black and I couldn't hear anyone else in there at all. I'm not sure if they ever announced that the library was closing, because i was busy listening to the bloody symphonie fantastique (with only one working headphone, so i think i would have heard it). But i quickly felt for the desk light and shoved my books and computer in my bag, threw on my jacket, and ran towards the door. Luckily, the librarian had just locked up and was about to leave when i reached the inside door. she saw me, unlocked the door, and let me out...and i was free. O man, how much would it have sucked being stuck in the science library all night!? 3 words: Creepy-as-hell. And I didnt even finish my paper yet, although i guess i'm almost done. and i will finish it tonight...welcome back, determination.
current mood:  determined
current music: symphonie fantastique
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| Thursday, April 21st, 2005
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8:02 pm - i have no more witty subject titles.
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Awww I had my first paying gig today. We forced Greg to ask the lady to pay us, and she said yes! It's only $25, but i guess that's better than nothing. Hopefully the check will come. And a few days ago i officially joined the "Marshall Woodwind Quintet," by just answering to some little email Laura sent me, and today i get an email from Norcross announcing a concert we're supposed to play at next February. How did he even know we started this?? And i think Lisa might be mad because she didnt get asked to do it since she's supposed to be an oboe. Oh, too bad. Anyway, i currently have almost 5 pages of my music paper done, but goddamnit i'm still just at his first year at music school. i have a feeling that this is gonna be a lot longer that 8 to 10 pages. I was gonna go to the library tonight to work on it, but i don't feel like it. I'm gonna be working all weekend anyway. Except tomorrow is my last day to pay this parking ticket, and we also have to go shopping. Then it's off to the library forever. And it's spring arts, so there's gonna be bands playing all day/night and events going on...and i have to fucking write papers. What a fun weekend this is gonna be, i can't wait. And i'm gonna stop complaining now because i really don't care that much...and i stole some balloons from the awards thing so that's always good.
current mood: apathetic
current music: stuff from our quintet
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| Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
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12:46 pm
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Copy and paste, then try and do it! It is surprisingly hard! ONE TRY type your name with your..
Fingers: megan
Chin: medgasnb
One finger with eyes closed: nrhdb
Cheek: sdcv Zv b
Elbow: megasn
Palm: megan
Back of hand: jeganh
Tongue: megan
nose: jk3tqan
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