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Well I did manage to accomplish some things.

I finished Color of Magic.

I watched Wilde - which I didn't like or at least I fell asleep and didn't care to bother with the end.

I watched the Worst of American Idol which was okay but got tiring without some good singing to break it up.

Went to church.

Went to the gym both days.

Bought lots of Weight Watchers cookbooks and vegetarian magazines - because I love those.

Finished my biography homepage for one of my internet classes.

Spoke with the professor of my English Lit class who is going to let me take it online even though it's an in-class class.

Whew. I didn't manage to clean up anything, but that is quite an impressive list, eh?

2.5 pounds lost!
FINALLY!!!!!!

My Fours

Borrowed from WendyLoo

4 Jobs You Have Had in Your Life?
Clerk in the Nursery (plant) department
Tupperware Sales
Victoria Secret Sales
Conversion Desk Specialist (working with software licenses)

4 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over?
Breakfast Club
Office Space
10 Things I Hate About You
Bring it On

4 Places You Have Lived?
San Jose, CA
Adak, Alaska
Long Beach, CA
Oxnard, CA

4 TV Shows You Love To Watch?
The Apprentice
Survivor
The Amazing Race
Project Runway
(now if only I had TV)

4 Places You Have Been on Vacation?
Long Beach
Anaheim
San Luis Obispo
I haven't really been on many vacations

4 Websites You Visit Daily?
WebCT (for school)
MY SJSU (for school)
Television Without Pity
Go Fug Yourself

4 of Your Favorite Foods?
Chocolate
Any pasta with tomato sauce
Tacos
Juevos Rancheros

4 Places You Would Rather Be Right Now
The Aptos Coffee Shop
A Coffee Shop in Italy
The Starbucks down the street
The gym

4 Bloggers You Are Tagging?
Itsy
Murphy
Megs (I think Megs already did this?)
Rachael

Yes I know it's after midnight - so what

So I have decided, at 12:30 AM, that this weekend my goal will be to finish one of my Terry Pratchett books (Color of Magic), come close to finishing another(Good Omens), go to the gym, and watch as much "Worst of American Idol" as I can.

Basically, be a bum.

Oh, and Dukes of Hazzard did indeed suck. But I had to know for myself.
Jessica Simpson... just... No.
And hey Jessica, Johnny Knoxville looks JUST LIKE your husband so why bother...
What, I'm trying to convince her to stay with poor Nick? Nick, pack your bags and run like hell and be happy you got out when you did. Marry a nice girl and have a good life. Be thankful.
Love,
A Longtime Jessica Hater

Oh yeah, my most important goal this weekend is to sleep in as long as possible tomorrow morning since it will be the last day I have to sleep in until June. A week from today I'll be in a FREAKING SWIMMING POOL, in FEBRUARY, at 7am. I'm a lunatic.

But I'm a lunatic who got an A in Statistics.

To switch subjects entirely, FINALLY...

Wanna see the ring I'm going to get?
It's going to be like one of these...

That's the kind I have wanted for many many many years but never thought I would have someone who I would want to give me a ring. Finally I have the right person, and he wants to get me whatever ring I want. Maybe I'll get one with a diamond, maybe not, but it will be that kind of band.

:-D

My wierd grading voodoo

I have been waiting ALL. DAY. LONG for my Statistics grade (and I'm sure you have too so you'll never have to hear about it ever again...

So FINALLY the grades were posted so I went and checked the score for my Final first...

And I got a 92%. An *A*.

I about died laughing.

So of course, my grade in the class is...

An A.

And that's the end of Statistics.

I want it to end already!!!

Still no grade!!!

AAAARGHHHHHH

Friday Questions from Meg

What is your reaction to waking up and seeing snow? Well, I live in San Jose, so my reaction would probably be... "What the hell???"
What's your favorite dessert to order out? to make at home? I like different things from different places. I like tiramisu, chocolate anything, things with berries, and always - ice cream. At home - ice cream.
Do you file your taxes early or late? Early
Do you usually get a big refund? If so, what do you do with it? Usually a couple thousand, and we usually buy things we've gone without all year - like underwear, haha. But no more!!!
How do you handle your bills? Are you really organized, really laid back or somewhat in between. Describe. Now that we have money I pay them the instant they come in. Bill come in, Bill go out.
How important is money in terms of your happiness? A lot is not important. Having ENOUGH is important and relieves so much stress. Money may not buy happiness, but you certainly need enough to pay bills.
What did your parents teach you about money? Unfortunately, not much. I think they though sheltering us from what they went through was helping us. Not really.
What do you wish your parents had taught you about money? Um, how to budget, save, make enough, the evils of credit cards.
What are your plans for the weekend? NO SCHOOLWORK, going to the gym, reading, watching movies, sewing, cleaning house. Or maybe I'll just be a bum.
bonus question. Jimbo and Megs want to go away for an extended weekend somewhere within driving distance and not too much money (but nice!). Where do you suggest? I suggest they drive their butts back to California so I can see them like I wanted to but didn't get to last time.

Movie Lists!

So let's get started with some non-school talk, shall we?

I rented "Orlando" the other day, because I have to read the book for school (okay, so I mentioned the "S" word) and I have to say,

That is the DULLEST movie ever. I hope the book is better, I really do.

But then I rented Run Lola Run yesterday... and I loved it! WOOOOO! Run, Lola, Run! Keep running! Faster! Further! I loved it. I loved it so much. I want to be Lola.

Okay, well, the Lola with the $100,000 and no dead bodies, not any of the other Lola's.

And for this weekend I have:

Wilde
Like Water for Chocolate
The Dukes of Hazzard (shut up)
The Worst of American Idol (shut up again, you know I don't have TV)

So... it should be an interesting movie weekend. Hey, I have a range there at least, right? A Variety. I am well rounded.

Heee.

Patience is a virtue I do not have

I want my grade NOW!!!!!!

Happy Friday!

Okay I updated the journal but I don't have my Statistics grade yet - it will be posted some time this afternoon and I'll let you all know as soon as I know, okay? Okay.

Also, I owe some of you emails, you know who you are, and I'm not ignoring you I just need to take email time later.

Talk here later!

10am today, in three more hours, I take my Statistics Final.
If I fail it I may get a C in the class. If I get more than half right I may get a B.
I don't think I'm going to hold on to my A.

"You ALWAYS say that, 'Oh poor me I'm going to FAIL' and then you get an A+!" said my co-worker.

Okay, but this time I have an 8 out of 30 on my practice midterm. It's not like I know the answers this time, I REALLY DON'T GET IT.

But all I need is a C. A C in this class puts me into the University. So let's get this over with.

Richard Hatch in JAIL, bwahahahahahha.....

AAAAAAGH I CAN'T DO THIS LAST CHAPTERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days 2 more days

Good news so far

Okay, I don't feel sick this morning! Yayyyy!

oh, but could someone hand Itsy a towel please, she's dripping all over...

I updated the journal. Now I update here.
I am not feeling good.
I mean, emotionally I feel fine - Finally.
But physically, I think I feel like crap.
You know how you feel like crap the day before you get sick?
How it starts out just feeling kind of tired and relaxed, then quickly escalates to antsy and irritable, then you start biting the heads off your children?
No?
Well that's how I feel at the moment.
But emotionally, I really do feel so much better. I got the loop to stop. It may start up again, I don't know, but so far, so good. Over 24 hours now, and still no film of October 21 going over and over and over.
So that's good.
These last couple days of Statistics are killing me.
I still have at least a 92%.
But I'm not clear on a lot in this last chapter, and there's lots to do before the Thursday morning final.
But the thought that by noon on Thursday I will be finished will ALL my General Education classes...
That I only have a few measly english classes and a swimming class, basically for fun, that in about 122 days I'll be graduating, that really makes me happy.
But for now, concentrate on Statistics.

Stupid Charleen went to Ireland on business without reminding me.
We work at the same company and I hardly ever get to see her.
But we talk on the phone more often. So that's good.
But not when she's in Ireland.

I want Cinequest to start already.
And I want Charleen to give me the days off that I want off when I tell her I want them off, dammit.
I mean, I love you Charleen.

Did I mention that I stuck Itsy's head in the toilet? But only for a minute.

I need to go to bed. I hope I feel well in the morning because I have too much work and homework to do.

Test Scores are in!

I got a 96% on my midterm yesterday!
That means I now have a 94.5% in the class, and blah blah blah I stuck Itsy's head in the toilet blah blah blah Stastics!

WOOOOOO!

On the bright side, if you break up with him you'll have more material for your next great album

Alanis, every time you come singing sweetly over my Launchcast at work my heart swells with love for you, but I still cannot forgive you for going to the Golden Globes looking like this. It's going to take me a long time to get over this, obviously.

Of course, I blame the man in your life.

Pischina is:

I stole this from Catie, and mine came out almost too embarrassing to post here, but on the other hand, it's going to make Charleen laugh so hard she'll pee her pants, so therefore I have to share it:

My second midterm for Statistics is in 90 minutes. Last night I finally achieved an A on the practice midterm (we get graded on the practice midterm but can retake it over and over up until the real test). This section was a little more difficult, but when I realized last night that I had accidentally switched formulas between two different types of equations, that was the difference between a C and an A. I think I can earn an A today too - but I'll be happy with a B. (well, not really, I want an A!)

Countdown until I'm finished with Statistics: 7 more days
Countdown until I'm in the pool at 7am: 17 more days
Countdown until the graduation ceremony: 127 more days

I have never been reading so many books, mostly non-school related, all at the same time. I just have too many really good books that I want to read, and I start looking at them, then I start paging through them, and then... I'm halfway finished.

This is going to be a productive reading year I think.

FYI:

I need a nap.

Oh Alanis, why hast thou forsaken us???
Why the bleached 70's style hair???
Why the top that makes you look topless?
And tell me, PLEASE, that that's not a boob job I'm looking at...

Don't worry, we still love you... but fix that please... the hair, the... dress, all of it.

I realize the only thing I've written about recently is my Statistics class. I'm just sort of immersed in it and not thinking of much else - except the gym, which is good.
By the way, why is it I have GAINED 2 pounds since New Years?
Never you worry, that will come off SOME how.
Anyway.
Second midterm this Thursday, and the Final is the next Thursday and then I'm done.
And then we can get back to the life I've given up the last 1-1/2 years as my school load finally dies down and I get ready to graduate.
It's all going to be worth it in the end, right?
Yeah, I think so.

I got a 92% on my Statistics midterm!!!

Total score for the first third of class: 93.5%

A!!!

COCOBOLO-COCOBOLO-COCOBOLO three times fast!!!

I just typed up an email using the word "COOOOOL" and when it spell-checked it stopped at that word, of course, but suggest this in replacement:

COCOBOLO

And I'm like, Whu - ?

But then I looked it up on Dictionary.com, and sure enough, it is a word!

I just thought that was funny.

The book list is up for my Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Literature course and it's a BIG one!
Here is what I have to read for this class, which starts January 30:

Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai
Laramie Project Moises Kaufman
Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown
Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg

I am pretty excited about this list, it's going to be a very interesting semester!

GPA did not suffer

And so I finished the Fall semester, the worst semester ever in my entire life, with a 3.545 gpa.

English Literature A
InterPersonal Communications A
Algebra II B

I was afraid I was going to get a D in Algebra II (which means I would have to take it over - and wouldn't be qualified to have Statistics right now) because I never opened the last two chapters, didn't turn in the homework for them, and I definitely had to have received an F on the Final because I had no idea how to work half of the problems.
Granted, I had an A up to that point, but my calculations showed me earning a very hopeful C.

Sometimes I wonder about how teachers grade. Not that I'm complaining. But I really do question some of my grades sometimes.

Now I have a 94% in Statistics.
And I'm seriously worried about myself for how much I absolutely love this class.
I could do these problems all day long.
I wish I had taken the semester long class so I could do more.

Somebody smack me, Please!

Okay, for the first third of my Statistics class I have:
100% on Homework
80% on practice Midterm
?? on Real Midterm scheduled for Thursday.

So far... 90%!! An A!!!

Not just a dork, but now a NERD

Would you all hate me if I told you I love Statistics?
:-D

I'll have you all know that I kicked Statistics Ass all over the place last night.

I still don't get part of it, but I finished half the first unit (in one night!) and it's not due until Thursday.
So I think I will have time to figure it out, and once I started the work it didn't seem like that much.
It may turn out that I actually lucked out taking this intersession online class.

First of all, Itsy, you ATTEMPTED to read "Handmaid's Tale"? Spankings!!! Why do I feel like I'm talking to my kids here?? READ IT. Jeez, I was in high school when I read it and she's a damn CANADIAN writer so it's even in your own language!
;-)

Second of all: Statistics is going to KICK MY ASS. Omigod I am so lost already. LOOooOoooOOOOost.
Four months of class crammed into 3 weeks of class. I must have been crazy to attempt this.
However, I WILL pass it.
My first midterm? Thursday.

Third of all: There is no third. Who has time for thirds when you've registered for Intersession Statistics???

Today is the day.
From 3pm to 5pm I will be at orientation for...

S-T-A-T-I-S-T-I-C-S

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!!!!!

My last math class, my last class needed to graduate, my last non-English class.

Three weeks of concentrated hell, and then it's finally over!

Okay, so here is the deal we made - more details in the journal:

1. We're gonna keep going for another five years
2. We're not going to talk marriage until that five years is up
3. I get a ring in the next six months.

A ring! Yay! A ring! I've told him over and over but I don't think he realizes it, that ring will keep me happy for the next 20 years. That's all I want, some outward sign showing that I am taken.

Gym talk

Forgot to tell ya'll I went to the gym yesterday, ran for 15 minutes, lifted 32,000 pounds, and then rode the bike for 20.

OH, but I also forgot to tell you the terms of my and Scott's new relationship contract, didn't I! HAH! Okay, hold on, let me put that in a separate item, be right back...

Ok, that was actually an error to have the book list be here, it's an old list that I keep under the link on the right - "What am I reading?". I switched the date on it, and now here it is, heh. But you can always check that link, it is the one thing in my life that I ALWAYS keep up to date.

Okay, so Megs asked what were my favorites. Many from the list were read for school, but also most were good.

Beloved - you all must read.
Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday - you all should read.
Handmaid's Tale - you all better read.
For Matrimonial Purposes - very good, very interesting, very sweet. Girls will like it.
Time Traveler's Wife - One of my top ten all time favorites. I sobbed through it.
Secret Life of Bees - I really liked it, but I've met many who have not. I recommend giving it a try.

And personally I loved all the Dan Brown and Terry Pratchett books. Terry Pratchett is a British writer who does good satire, some will love him, some won't get it. But I love him. However he wrote a book called "Good Omens" with Neil Gaiman which is one of the FUNNIEST books by far and in my top ten all time favorites.

John Irving is one of my favorite authors, but he bombed with "Until I Find You". Do NOT waste your time.

So that's it, my recommendations from 2005. And now we are off to 2006!

I'm glad we have no trees by our house

Good lord, what happened in San Jose while I was in Aptos last night???

Aptos is nice, quiet, a little rainy here and there...

I drive into San Jose and am greeted by a freeway COVERED WITH PINE TREES (Highway 17 at Hamilton) like driving over a carpet of Christmas Trees and branches - CRAZY. Then I get into San Jose and every road has trees lying in the middle of it, branches, trees, debris, trees in yards, a huge tree at Red Lobster all uprooted with half their landscaping, fences down... I 've never seen anything like it.

Good job Mother Nature, you lived up to your reputation this time. ;-)

Meanwhile, I'm glad we don't own our backyard fence, heh. Plus, it fell into the neighbor's side.

My Fabulous Book List!

Currently Reading (and paying attention to)

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia : The Old Arcadia Sir Philip Sidney
Winning by Losing Jillian Michaels
The Birth of Venus Sarah Dunant
Elizabeth I Christopher Haigh
Chaucer's Major Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer
~~~Knight's Tale
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer transl. Neville Coghill
Hamlet (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Susanne Wofford
¡Avance! Intermediate Spanish
Album: Cuentos Del Mundo Hispanico
Critical Theory Today Lois Tyson
The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Ross Murfin, Supryia M. Ray

Finished 2008

Chaucer's Major Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer
~~~The Book of the Duchess
~~~The General Prologue
"The Lady of May" Sir Philip Sidney
"The Four Foster Children of Desire" Unknown
"Letter to Queen Elizabeth" Sir Philip Sidney
"The Quene's Majestie's Passage"
"Speeches by Queen Elizabeth" Elizabeth I
"Homilies on Obedience and the State of Matrimony"
"On a Dream about an Encounter with Queen Elizabeth" Simon Forman
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Queen of the South Arturo Perez-Reverte
Seeing Me Naked Liza Palmer
Moon Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo Bruce Whipperman

Finished 2007
Till We Have Faces CS Lewis
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Ovid
Situaciones ed. Valette
Bedford Companion of Shakespeare Russ McDonald
Heroides Ovid
La Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory
Norton Anthology of Shakespeare ed. Greenblatt
~~~Troilus and Cressida
~~~Winter's Tale
~~~King Lear
~~~As You Like It
~~~Hamlet
~~~Henry IV Part I
~~~The Merchant of Venice
~~~A Midsummer's Night Dream
~~~The Taming of the Shrew
The Erotic Poems by Ovid ed. Peter Green
~~~The Amores
~~~The Art of Love
~~~Cures for Love
~~~On Facial Treatment for Ladies
Classical Myth Barry B. Powell
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe
The Washingtonienne Jessica Cutler
Little Beauties Kim Addonizio
Laugh'n' Learn Spanish Lynn Johnston
Ramona la Chinche Beverly Cleary
Too Much Tuscan Sun Dario Castagno
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? Jen Lancaster
Bitter is the New Black Jen Lancaster
Can You Keep a Secret? Sophie Kinsella
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel
Shopaholic and Baby Sophie Kinsella
Metamorphoses of Ovid Ovid and David Mandelbaum
Women in the Classical World Elaine Fantham
!Trato hecho! Spanish for Real Life McMinn/Garcia
Puntos de Partida Part 2 Knorr
Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past Sutton/Yohe
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology Kenneth L. Feder
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Package 1 (Volumes A and C)
~~~The Iliad - Homer
~~~The Odyssey - Homer
~~~Poetics - Aristotle
~~~The Oresteia - Aeschylus
~~~~~Agamemnon
~~~~~The Libation Bearers
~~~~~The Eumenides
~~~Oedipus the King - Sophocles
~~~Antigone - Sophocles
~~~Medea - Euripides
~~~Lysistrata - Aristophanes
~~~Apology of Socrates - Plato
~~~Aeneid - Virgil
~~~Metamorphosis - Ovid
~~~The Song of Roland
~~~Thorstein the Staff-Struck
~~~Inferno - Dante
~~~Purgatorio - Dante
~~~Paradiso - Dante
La Perdida Jessica Abel
Pompeii Filippo Coarelli
The Marketplace Laura Antoniou
Smart Women Finish Rich David Bach

Finished 2006
Laugh 'N Learn Spanish: Featuring "For Better or For Worse" Lynn Johnston
Puntos de Partida Part 1 Knorr
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream Glenna Matthews
Major Problems in American Women's History Mary Beth Norton
Women in Labor Allison L. Hepler
Women of the American South Christie Anne Farnham
Beauty's Release A.N. Roquelaure
Eleanor Roosevelt: a Personal and Public Life J. William T. Youngs
Writing About Literature Edgar V. Roberts
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway
~~~The Snows of Kilimanjaro
~~~The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter K A Porter
~~~Old Mortality
~~~Noon Wine
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare
The Awakening and Selected Stories Kate Chopin
~~~At the 'Cadian Ball
~~~The Storm
~~~The Kiss
~~~Story of an Hour
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 Anton Chekhov
~~~Gooseberries
~~~The Lady with the Little Dog
~~~The Bishop
~~~The Bride
~~~Man in a Case
"Troilus and Criseyde" Geoffrey Chaucer
Diary of a Madman & Other Stories Nikolai Gogol
~~~Diary of a Madman
~~~The Nose
~~~The Overcoat
Edgar Allen Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
~~~The Balloon-Hoax
~~~The Fall of the House of Usher
~~~The Cask of Amontillado
~~~The Black Cat
~~~The Tell-Tale Heart
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student Rebekah Nathan
The Ways of White Folks: Stories Langston Hughes
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde
The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood
"Trifles" Susan Glaspell
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Italian Farmhouse Cookbook Susan Herrmann Loomis
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Lovely Bones (audiobook) Alice Sebold
Citizen Girl Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Nanny Diaries Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger
The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella
The Reluctant Tuscan: How I discovered My Inner Italian Phil Doran
The Second Assistant Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare
Norton Anthology of English Literature - Twentieth Century
The Prophet's Hair Salman Rushdie
Scholar and Gypsy Anita Desai
Mannequin, On Not Shotting Sitting Birds Jean Rhys
~~~Katherine Mansfield
~~~Virginia Woolf
~~~Chinua Achebe
The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter
Endgame Samuel Becket
Shopaholic & Sister (Audio) Sophie Kinsella
Bergdorf Blondes (Audio) Plum Sykes
Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Audio) Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhatten (Audio) Sophie Kinsella
The Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt
Vindication of the Rights of Women Mary Wollstonecraft
Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Beauty's Punishment A. N. Roquelaure
1st to Die (Audiobook) James Patterson
Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai
Company (Audiobook) Max Barry
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period
~~~Mary Wollstonecraft
~~~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
~~~Jane Austen
~~~William Blake
~~~Robert Burns
~~~William Wordsworth
~~~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
~~~Percy Bysshe Shelley
~~~John Keats
~~~Lord Byron
~~~Sir Walter Scott
Bridget Jones's Diary (Audiobook) Helen Fielding
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Audiobook) Sophie Kinsella
Good in Bed (Audio) Jennifer Weiner
Good Omens Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown
The Color of Magic Terry Pratchett
Elementary Statistics MyMathLab
ShopGirl Steve Martin
The Laramie Project Moises Kaufman
Going Postal Terry Pratchett
The Truth Terry Pratchett

Finished 2005
The Art of Discworld Terry Pratchett
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty A. N. Roquelaure
Interpersonal Communication Julia T Wood
Norton Anthology of English Literature M.H.Abrams
.....Beowulf
.....Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
.....The Faerie Queen
.....Twelfth Night
.....Gulliver's Travels
.....Paradise Lost
.....The Rape of the Lock
Destinos - Student Edition
Destinos - Workbook
When the Wind Blows James Patterson
Practical Algebra A Self-Teaching Guide Selby/Slavin
Until I Find You John Irving
Art & Fear David Bayles
Three Genres Stephen Minot
For Matrimonial Purposes Kavita Daswani
The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc Loraine Despre
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Sushi for Beginners Marian Keyes
Deception Point Dan Brown
The Pearl John Steinbeck
Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Environmental Science Eldon Enger
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume E
World Literature Rosenberg
The American Promise Vol. II Roark
Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol. D
Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol. C
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Sorrow Mountain Ani Pachen (have not finished)
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco

Finished 2004
Mama Terry MacMillan
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
The Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol. A and B
The American Promise: A History of the United States Vol. 1
Oceanography: An invitation to marine science
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Aztec Blood Gary Jennings
The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff
The America We Deserve Donald Trump
A Widow for One Year John Irving
The Graduate Charles Webb
World of Ideas Lee A. Jacobus
For Matrimonial Purposes Kavita Daswani
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan
The Vampire Lestat Ann Rice
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession Irvin D. Yalom
Pandora Anne Rice
Murder in the Dark Margaret Atwood
Archangel Michael Conner
Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton
Timeline Michael Crichton
Disclosure Michael Crichton
Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins
Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman
And Never Let Her Go Ann Rule
Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need Dave Barry
Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal Meihong Xu & Larry Engelmann
New Spring Robert Jordan
Seize the Night Dean Koontz
Rising Sun Michael Crichton
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Prey Michael Crichton
Crossroads of Twilight Robert Jordan
Feng Shui for Dummies David Daniel Kennedy & Lin Yun
Faking It Jennifer Crusie
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Finished 2002 (that I remember)
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