I had a dream last night that George Gershwin was in my upstairs living room playing Christmas carols.

( as freedom is a breakfastfood by e.e. cummings )

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Enjoy your dinner and especially all your leftovers!

You know those moments when you truly believe that people are good. I just had one of those. Barack Obama is going to be our next president. I am so happy that he is and that I was able to be a part of it. For the first time since I've become politically aware, I truly feel that our country is making a change for the better.

moofin_rocks's Halloween party:

ascoolasifeel dressed as a vampire.
caddie dressed as Professor Frink.
dr_megan dressed as Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster from Sleepy Hollow.
elusivegirl85 dressed as a very fake witch-doctor complete with a collection of shrunken skulls.
empressaurelius gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as Bob Dylan.
endlessfire dressed as your uncle.
frigginfraggin forgot to put on clothes!
girl_fromjersey dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Zsa-Zsa Hamsterchunks".
glebs282 dressed as Steven Spielberg, though it looked more like a lime ghost.
greateststar dressed as Josephine Baker but the banana "skirt" didn't survive the night.
happymediocrity didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
kris926 dressed as a pimp, and it suited them disturbingly well.
london_kelly dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Stone of Calamity.
mercutioshoes dressed as Lyndon B. Johnson, and it suited them disturbingly well.
moofin_rocks dressed as a halfback for the Steelers.
netclari7 dressed as Oprah Winfrey.
odakota_rose dressed as Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
ozzfan_13 dressed as Johnny Depp.
patsy_is_rad dressed as the main character of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", though it looked more like a disturbing self-made character called "Falafel Bananatushie".
royalrainboww dressed as a new superhero: Electra- Soarer.
smackalalala dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
songdain dressed as Ted Williams.
sportsnightnut dressed as a relative vampire.
squallheartless dressed as the Vicomte des Boules-Velues.
thelikeofthis dressed as a character from a Final Fantasy game.
thoraniris dressed as J.K. Rowling's mother.
tigergirl742 dressed as Jack the Ripper in a time machine, complete with gory knives.
yippiefantastic dressed as Sybil - except that Sybil didn't show but the other 35 personalities did.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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I just tiramisu for dessert.

The perfect end to the perfect day.  

Stolen from girl_fromjersey 

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them. ;)

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 Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reading right now)
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 - AA 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
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

I am not at all sure what the point of this entry will be, if there even will be a point.
My life has not been particularly fascinating, as of late.
I have started wearing a watch again, that is rather nice. I never really thought about it before today when Diana Gabaldon mentioned it in her novel The Firey Cross but if I were to go back in time today a few hundred years I would miss exactly what time it was quite a bit. Speaking of The Firey Cross, I never thought I would eagerly read a book so long (1443 pages). In fact, I recall a few entries made on this LJ about having to read Chesapeake which I think was something like 1001 pages.
I am piling up what seems like zillions of books that I need to read. Because I am feeling amazingly unproductive I shall now list them.

I am now officially done with finals and finished with high school!

Stolen from tigergirl742

List 5 random facts about yourself:

1. I like making tee-shirts, especially for government.
2. I do most of my work in pencil except for rough drafts of essays, for these I need green or purple pen.
3. I find it very difficult to sleep with my door even just a crack open.
4. I love shoes but hate wearing them, the first thing I do when I get home is take off my shoes.
5. Later today I am going to plant sun-flowers because not only are the petals Fibonacci numbers, but the seeds on the inside, as well.

Rumi
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

Only 4 more days until Spring Break!

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I think today will be a good day after all.

Last night I finally had a quesadilla. It was so yummy, I want another one.

Another perfect day.

This is about the time I usually get out of bed when I have a choice...lol

The Pillars of the Earth is easily one of the best books ever, and I'm only in Chapter 3!

This is hilarious.