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Just letting you know, I'm having problems with the home computer so I haven't been on - I'm hacked into the boss's computer right now. But I am fine, and off to a dinner date with Scott right now. Tomorrow is a swim meet, then off to Aptos, then Sunday afternoon is an Eagle Scout ceremony for Eliza's son. Hopefully I'll have my computer straightened out by then.

Everyone have a wonderful weekend!

This is what our front yard looks like from our living room window. I can't show you the outside of the house because I ran the batteries down in my camera, but this is the gist of it.

It's even more spectacular from outside, but you'll have to use your imagination.

Toilet paper is fun!

Picture

Kitty thinks it would be very fun to go outside and play with the toilet paper.

Our house got toilet papered

Our house got toilet papered by the swim team last night. My kids are thrilled because that means they are loved, heh.
I'm just glad it's not a weekend that we were all gone, and also, since the kids are here with me, THEY get to clean it up.

Even funnier, Spike caught them doing it, and they ran away scared. He said it was hilarious.

I went to the gym and met with Nick (Mr.Jack-LaLanne's-Father) and he was really really great. He just had some casual pants and a sweater on, and he showed me each of the machines. He's super strong, and said that I was his strongest client, EVER. :-) He said he could tell I work out, and that I'm going to do really well because I use the machines correctly and really concentrate. He said I did so well I should become a teacher!
I told him I was studying to be an English Teacher, going to work full time, school full time, and the mother of two kids. His jaw dropped! He said I didn't look old enough to have 2 teenagers, that I barely looked 30.

So of course, I love my Mr.Nick!

Also, I really really love the gym. It's small but quiet and empty, it has twice the machines the Y had and they're really nice, the people are nice, and it's exactly what I was looking for.

I forgot about this when I just updated the diary with my good news, but after I paid my "fee" at college I decided to celebrate by joining a brand new gym that's exactly 1.5 miles from my house, using the same equipment my YMCA has, for exactly the same price. I had let my YMCA membership lapse because, duh, it cost money, and also I wasn't using it because it was too far.

But I got a coupon in the mail the other day, so I marched over to the gym with it and signed up and was SO excited, because now my days and evenings will be filled with work and school and exercizing...

And then they scheduled my Fitness/Wellness Test... with this old man... like 80 years old... Like Jack LaLanne's FATHER, so old. And the guy is all decked out in his work-out gear, I mean like even a sweat band around his forehead and wrists and everything. And he told me all about how he was going to show me how to work out, and use the machines "the right way AND the wrong way", etc., and I gotta tell you, it was all I could do to not crack up as I thought about how this gym was also going to provide me with as many stories as Princess Missy at Curves did.

Anyway, my appointment is 5:30pm tomorrow, and then I can go anytime I want. I am so excited, my life is so on track right now. Everything is good.

Please, God, Please let it stay that way for awhile.

Breathe Breathe Breathe

Today I go pay for my classes. I'm having a panic attack just trying to decide whether to take all four classes or stick with three. I think I can do it, but I don't know, I worked the last time I went to school, but I didn't have 2 kids either, but its just junior college, it's not as if it's hard, and Oceanography and Survey of AmLit will be easy, but do I have time???

I'll probably go for it. I really really want to be done by Fall 2005. I think I can do it.

First of all, thank you to Itsy for playing Child Welfare Agency and Child Protection Services all in one.
:-)

Also, I have completely lost my mind. I have managed to squeeze in another class. I am taking 4 classes, and 12 units.

Oceanography
US History 1
Survey of American Literature
Critical Thinking

I got my transcripts, and guess what? There is a Big. Fat. F. F as in Frog. For English 1B. Amazing. I must have dropped the course and not turned in the official drop notice. This SUCKS. English Major fails English 1B. BAH!!!!!
SOOOOOOOO mad at my self, at my younger self. With that F and the F for the Psychology class I also dropped non-officially, my grade point average is a 2.6389!!!!!!!! Even with 7 As and 5 Bs and 2 Cs.

Oh well. Starting over. My first semester of college, with 5 classes I had a 4.00. I will do it again. And I'll get that gpa up.

Failed English. That is just Stupid.

Diary update

Okay, I updated, now I have to go to work.

Okay, like I said, if the mail was not delivered in honor of every president's death, I wouldn't have a problem with it, and apparently this was done for Nixon also. I remember Nixon's funeral very clearly, but I don't remember mail being canceled. However if Catie says it is so, then I believe it.

Also, I have a friend in New Orleans who DID get her mail. So what is that all about? Selective National Holiday for mail carriers?

Having No Cable sometimes is Great

By the way, since we don't have cable now and don't get many channels without it, we never watch TV anymore - unless Survivor, The Apprentice or American Idol is on. So we are not stuck in front of the TV every night watching whatever is on. Therefore, I knew Reagan had died because the computer told me so, but I was not inundated with it all week long and I did not have to watch the funeral on TV.

And neither did any of you. Shut your TVs off for God's sake. You'll have a better life. Or "A" life, should I say.
:-)

No mail on Friday

I tried to post this as a comment in Sabby's blog, but I cannot, so anyway I am posting it here.

"I don't remember the mail EVER closing down for something not a national holiday. And this is NOT a national holiday. I was also expecting mail, and I am pissed off that I didn't get it. So I guess nothing can stop the mail, not wind nor rain nor snow nor hail, unless Ronald Reagan dies. If this was a regular thing to happen when a president dies that would be a different story, but it's not, and Ronald Reagan was NOT the greatest president of the century, and really, this is all just ridiculous. I wish the election would hurry up and get here already."

Do not try arguing with me about Reagan's greatness, I'm 37 years old and I remember him quite well. You will not change my mind. The main point is, the mail is the mail. It needs to be delivered. And I am STILL pissed off that it wasn't.

That's Spike on the left, and his super-tall friend Alejandro on the right.

Buffy on left, best friend and swim nemesis Sara and the right.

Another early Saturday

6:10am and I've been up for 45 minutes already. Another swim meet, and then off to Aptos.

Spike graduated yesterday, it was a really nice graduation. Buffy graduated Thursday. I'll post pictures later. Well, maybe I'll post them now. Hold on just a sec...

My heart just dropped into my stomach when I found out my history book would cost $100 new, $75 used.

Then I checked for it on eBay. $3.00 Baybee. Granted, that's a 1998 book, but they have 2002 for $9.99. I know where I'll be shopping for books come September.
The other history book, $74 in the book store, 99 cents on eBay.
Critical Thinking book, $48 at bookstore, 99 cents on eBay.

Let me say it again, Hurray for eBay!!!!!

Borrowed from Sabby, who really should read The Stand, Good Omens, and lots more John Irving:

The Longest Book List EVER:

*bold those you've read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet
*add three of your own
*post to your livejournal/blog

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens
370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
371. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
380. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin
381. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb.
382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
384. Sabriel, Garth Nix
385. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
386. The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris
387. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
388. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
389. The House with a Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs
390. The Wings of a Falcon, Cynthia Voigt
391. Gain, by Richard Powers
392. White NOise, by Don DeLillo
393. Koko, by Peter Straub
394. Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
395. Wind Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery
396. The Monkeywrench Gang, Edward Abbey
397. The Making of the English Working Class, EP Thompson
398. The Female Man, Joanna Russ
399. We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Achy Obejas
400. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
401. Israel My Beloved, Kay Arthur
402. Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton
403. Spring-heeled Jack, Philip Pullman
404. The Happy Prince and other stories, Oscar Wilde
405. The Dark is Rising series, Susan Cooper
406. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
407. The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson
408. Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
409. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
410. The Five People You Meet On Your Way to Heaven, Mitch Albion
411. Night, Elie Wiesel
412. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
413. Forever Amber, Kathleen Windsor
414. Atlantis: Poems by Mark Doty
415. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamont
416. The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
417. Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
418. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
419. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
420. Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton

I am now officially a student at Evergreen Valley College, again. The last class I attended there was in Spring of 1986.

I'm enrolled in Nutrition and Oceanography, and I'm trying to decide if I should take Critical Thinking at the same time.

I even have my own Student ID #. It's the same number from the first time I was in college. It's also listed under my MAIDEN NAME, goshdarnit.

That's okay, I'll be graduated soon enough, and then I can torture my own students, hee heee.

Also, do I need mention that my mom is having a freakin heart attack she's so happy I'm back in school?

Okay, right, um.... This is just stupid.
Paris, we all know you've kissed more trolls than that and we've all seen you having sex right here on our family computers, why are we supposed to care that you kissed Carmen Electra?

J-Lo marries Marc Anthony

Oh J.Lo!!! After this next divorce can you just go get a therapist and learn to be happy without a man??

We won the swim meet, by 40 points!

Buffy got 4th in Breast stroke and 2 First Places in relays,

Spike also got a 4th in (something, heh) and a First in his relay.

Me, I got a sunburn.

Last week

I'm going to write an entry later about this week, but in a nutshell this is where I've been:

I can't see out my contacts anymore so I went to eye doctor and got a new perscription, AND new glasses! My old ones are from the 1980's, big bug-eyed blue plastic frames. I love love love my new ones. I'll take a picture after they come in.

Pischina-Kitty escaped through a window and ran away with a very dorky siamese cat. After 24 hours I managed to catch her, throw her back into the house, and annul that feline marriage right out the window. I'm sure she's now about to become a single unwed mother. Slut. I'm going to be SO pissed if she is.

I woke up with a bad neck the other day, unable to turn my head in any direction at all and it really really really sucked and HURT. Today, after 3 days, I can finally turn it, it only hurts a little.

I am enrolling back into Evergreen College, with possibly some classes at Cabrillo next semester. I am very very happy, the only thing tearing me up right now is deciding where I want to transfer to, San Jose State University or UC Santa Cruz. I would rather go to UCSC but I don't think I'll be living over there at that time. The problem is that entirely different courses are required for each transfer, I just don't want to waste time taking the wrong ones. But I'll probably focus on SJSU since it's most likely I'll still be here. I can always transfer over my senior year I guess (?). But I cannot wait for classes to start. If I concentrate on SJSU then I'll be taking Oceanography and Nutrition at Evergreen, and possibly Mass Media at Cabrillo. Eventually I would love to take all the italian courses at Cabrillo!!!!

Today is the first swim meet. It's 6:20am on a Saturday and I've been up for an hour. It's time to wake the kids.

Please make him stop talking

Oh, SHUT UP, OJ. Just Shut. Up.

I am so glad today is Friday.

That is all.

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