Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A Photo That I Took.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
School As the New Prozac?!
Yesterday was my first day of class in the Spring 2011 semester. While I found the idea of driving from one side of the city to the other in the not ideal weather conditions not a real stirring reason to leave my warm abode I got ready and set off into traffic anyway. By the time I had run an errand for my mother, battled traffic on Crosstown, and 94, I was running, well not late but darn close. So, by the time I got on campus, parked and walked into the classroom there was little time to laugh and joke with some of the people I have come to know through my program. Yet, as the class started I found myself in a better mood being in the classroom than I have in any other place in my life lately. My spirits were lifted, I was just happy being there for the time. I didn't think or worry about others, and problems in my life. I just focused on me and what this was going to bring me. One step closer to my degree. It is starting to seem real I guess.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
I Thought It All Looked...Familiar.
Tomorrow I start the Spring semester of school. The second to the last semester before I graduate after about 10 years in college. After that long things are bound to be a little fuzzy; stuff like if I have taken a class or not... So I was all jazzed about my classes for this semester. Last semester I signed up to take my Lit Capstone (required to graduate) and an online course about Classical Greece. All was well in the educational word of JoAnnaland. Until tonight. I ordered my books a couple weeks ago and had them delivered to the house and something about the titles were nagging at me. Sure many of the books looked familiar, but I work at a freakin book store! I could have shelved the same titles over and over within my time as a book seller. That could have been what I was remembering. Then I came across one of the books titled "Greek Lyric". If you ever have to read this book, you will remember it. It is not a horrible book, boring, or mind numbing (at least for an English major with a interest towards history), but it is structured in such a way that you will remember reading it. Greek Lyric is a book full of the ancient poets of Greece, separated by poet, and theme. The depressing ones that write about death, go here. The ones that write about love, they go in there, yada yada.
When I first got my books for my classes I had somewhat of a sinking feeling when 3 out of the four books looked familiar. I should have payed attention to the feeling. I didn't. Not until this evening when the idea that the class started tomorrow and I just better make sure everything was kosher...
I went online and sure enough it had wiped my perfectly good grade from the first time I took it and had me repeating it! GAH! I had one night to pick a new class, because said class might start at 9am tomorrow! After much fiddling trying to get my computer to hook up to the Internet:( and searching for online courses, as that is what I was giving up, :( I finally found 2 classes that wouldn't have me crying by the second day, one was about information access and research (and online), the other was an art class about Museums and Galleries and met Wednesdays from 1-420. While the Museum one had more of my interest I was all for the online one. However, after registering I realized that it would leave me 2 credits short of graduation, as the info class was worth less credits than the museum course. GRRRRR! I now am registered for my Capstone and a museum and gallery class. Neither I have taken before. I don't think.
When I first got my books for my classes I had somewhat of a sinking feeling when 3 out of the four books looked familiar. I should have payed attention to the feeling. I didn't. Not until this evening when the idea that the class started tomorrow and I just better make sure everything was kosher...
I went online and sure enough it had wiped my perfectly good grade from the first time I took it and had me repeating it! GAH! I had one night to pick a new class, because said class might start at 9am tomorrow! After much fiddling trying to get my computer to hook up to the Internet:( and searching for online courses, as that is what I was giving up, :( I finally found 2 classes that wouldn't have me crying by the second day, one was about information access and research (and online), the other was an art class about Museums and Galleries and met Wednesdays from 1-420. While the Museum one had more of my interest I was all for the online one. However, after registering I realized that it would leave me 2 credits short of graduation, as the info class was worth less credits than the museum course. GRRRRR! I now am registered for my Capstone and a museum and gallery class. Neither I have taken before. I don't think.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Picture that Makes Me Sad/Angry
Friday, December 10, 2010
Picture That Makes Me Happy
Thursday, December 9, 2010
20 Favorite Things
1. Favorite Disney Movie- Beauty and the Beast. Hands Down. Funny enough though my favorite song is from the Broadway show.
2. Pastime- reading. This was not always so. When I was about 12-13 I found the book that took me away from my problems and took me to another world for awhile. I discovered how to travel without spending hundreds of dollars, how to become other people without becoming insane. It was my new love.
3. Yellow butter cake with chocolate frosting. This is my go to cake. I love this cake. When I was little my mom says I always used to get white cake with white frosting (uck), but now I love the rich goodness of butter yellow cake topped with thick chocolate frosting. Mmmmm.
4. My grandparents. They are some of the most giving, understanding, generous, loving people I have ever met, and I am not saying that cause I am their favorite;) They have taught all of their children who have tried to teach all of their children to give of themselves, to always lend a helping hand, and that it is better to give than to receive. They are some of the most amazing people I have the privilege to know, and be loved by.
5. Favorite things- Books! Old, new, borrowed (from a known source such as a friend, libraries gross me out), blue! I love books
6. Animal- Dogs. Favorite particular dog would be my God-dog Kirby Jo. Favorite farm animal is goats.
7. Favorite place I have ever been- Colorado. Up in the mountains, where it is gorgeous and things are so green, and there is still snow in the mountains, yet even when walking around on the snow you can do it in short sleeves in may. Then in town it is warm weather, no snow and life is so laid back compared to Minnesota.
8. Favorite Holiday- It used to be Christmas but I now have to say Easter as I get older I appreciate Easter more and the hubub of Christmas less.
9. place to eat out. I lovelovelove Fogo de chao, but i get crazy cravings for breakfast food from the pancake house.
10. Favorite place I have ever lived would be Cloquet. I didn't want to move there. I threw a huge fit when we did. I was tired of always moving, plus we had to get rid of my dogs (one of which I had had for about 6-7 years. Half my life at this point!). However, once we got there and I had approx. 38-45 anxiety attacks in and around the nurses and the councilor's office I made many good friends and was equally upset when we had to move again 5 years later right before my senior year.
11. Favorite season -Fall! break out the scarves, the mittens, the sweaters, the jeans. I love the changing colors of the trees, the colder weather, the clothes I get to break out, without having to cover up with a bulky jacket, and the holidays of Halloween and thanksgiving.
12. event- The State Fair- In all my remembered years i have never missed attending the state fair. I love just going, walking around, eating the fatty foods, deep fried foods, on-a-stick foods, looking in all the booths, window shopping through the fair, and usually making myself sick on sweet Martha's cookies and all you can drink milk.
13. Favorite Hockey player- Word on the street says that I have several pieces of expensive clothing that would lead one to believe that it is one Backstrom of the MN Wild based on the fact that his last name is written on said pieces of clothing.
14. Favorite comfort food- Mashed Potatoes, gravy,biscuits, and something with chocolate and sugar in it that is not french silk pie.
15. Favorite type of car. I would love to own a Dodge Charger an early 60's or a 70's. I like the modern ones too but the older ones look sweet.
16. Favorite Video game- Mario cart. But i do miss playing sonic the hedgehog on sega. I saw they have a new game for sonic on ds. I might have to invest:)
17. Favorite mode of transportation- riding in a car when someone else is driving. I don't really care for driving, and somethings are to close to fly to.
18.Favorite Job I have ever had would be working at Michaels because more often than not we just goofed off or stood around talking, even with management.
19. Favorite artist- waterhouse
20. Favorite classic novel- Wuthering Heights by Bronte
2. Pastime- reading. This was not always so. When I was about 12-13 I found the book that took me away from my problems and took me to another world for awhile. I discovered how to travel without spending hundreds of dollars, how to become other people without becoming insane. It was my new love.
3. Yellow butter cake with chocolate frosting. This is my go to cake. I love this cake. When I was little my mom says I always used to get white cake with white frosting (uck), but now I love the rich goodness of butter yellow cake topped with thick chocolate frosting. Mmmmm.
4. My grandparents. They are some of the most giving, understanding, generous, loving people I have ever met, and I am not saying that cause I am their favorite;) They have taught all of their children who have tried to teach all of their children to give of themselves, to always lend a helping hand, and that it is better to give than to receive. They are some of the most amazing people I have the privilege to know, and be loved by.
5. Favorite things- Books! Old, new, borrowed (from a known source such as a friend, libraries gross me out), blue! I love books
6. Animal- Dogs. Favorite particular dog would be my God-dog Kirby Jo. Favorite farm animal is goats.
7. Favorite place I have ever been- Colorado. Up in the mountains, where it is gorgeous and things are so green, and there is still snow in the mountains, yet even when walking around on the snow you can do it in short sleeves in may. Then in town it is warm weather, no snow and life is so laid back compared to Minnesota.
8. Favorite Holiday- It used to be Christmas but I now have to say Easter as I get older I appreciate Easter more and the hubub of Christmas less.
9. place to eat out. I lovelovelove Fogo de chao, but i get crazy cravings for breakfast food from the pancake house.
10. Favorite place I have ever lived would be Cloquet. I didn't want to move there. I threw a huge fit when we did. I was tired of always moving, plus we had to get rid of my dogs (one of which I had had for about 6-7 years. Half my life at this point!). However, once we got there and I had approx. 38-45 anxiety attacks in and around the nurses and the councilor's office I made many good friends and was equally upset when we had to move again 5 years later right before my senior year.
11. Favorite season -Fall! break out the scarves, the mittens, the sweaters, the jeans. I love the changing colors of the trees, the colder weather, the clothes I get to break out, without having to cover up with a bulky jacket, and the holidays of Halloween and thanksgiving.
12. event- The State Fair- In all my remembered years i have never missed attending the state fair. I love just going, walking around, eating the fatty foods, deep fried foods, on-a-stick foods, looking in all the booths, window shopping through the fair, and usually making myself sick on sweet Martha's cookies and all you can drink milk.
13. Favorite Hockey player- Word on the street says that I have several pieces of expensive clothing that would lead one to believe that it is one Backstrom of the MN Wild based on the fact that his last name is written on said pieces of clothing.
14. Favorite comfort food- Mashed Potatoes, gravy,biscuits, and something with chocolate and sugar in it that is not french silk pie.
15. Favorite type of car. I would love to own a Dodge Charger an early 60's or a 70's. I like the modern ones too but the older ones look sweet.
16. Favorite Video game- Mario cart. But i do miss playing sonic the hedgehog on sega. I saw they have a new game for sonic on ds. I might have to invest:)
17. Favorite mode of transportation- riding in a car when someone else is driving. I don't really care for driving, and somethings are to close to fly to.
18.Favorite Job I have ever had would be working at Michaels because more often than not we just goofed off or stood around talking, even with management.
19. Favorite artist- waterhouse
20. Favorite classic novel- Wuthering Heights by Bronte
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
They think they're so smart and we are so stupid
Have you read more than six of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions:
• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Well I have read 10 on the list, which really means I have read16 books on the list as they list the harry potter series as one while it is 7 books. Then there were 15 books that I had either started to read and put down or have read excerpts from. I didn't count books that I simply knew the storyline from, because that was over 3/4 of the list and felt like cheating...just a bit.
Instructions:
• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Well I have read 10 on the list, which really means I have read16 books on the list as they list the harry potter series as one while it is 7 books. Then there were 15 books that I had either started to read and put down or have read excerpts from. I didn't count books that I simply knew the storyline from, because that was over 3/4 of the list and felt like cheating...just a bit.
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