I THINK I disabled my "Loud Twitter" account. Hope so. Sorry for the millions of tweet entries with so few real ones.

As said before: I am keeping a pencil, pen and paper journal. It is working out quite well. I do not expect to use this account much in the near future, if at all.

Here are some internetty places to find me:

Art Blog: http://bombshellcat.blogspot.com/
Soon-to-be Book Blog: http://decemberite.blogspot.com/
Twitter Dee: http://twitter.com/rationality
Twitter Dum (ART): http://twitter.com/bombshellcat

I guess that is all for now.

Don't take too long to think about it. Name fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you - the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1: "I Capture The Castle"
2: "The Christmas Box"
3: "The House on Mango Street" (this book changed my writing style!)
4: "So You Want To Be A Wizard" (is there anything more memorable than a white hole named Fred?)
5: "Little Sister" (I wrote all my notes/letters in haikus for weeks after reading this the first time.)
6: "The Secret Garden"
7: "Gone With The Wind"
8: "A Room With A View" (I think I can now admit that I finished this book, flipped back to the beginning and read it again. Not something I normally do.)
9: "A Wrinkle In Time"
10: "Maurice"
11: "The Inferno" (thanks Mr. Gay.)
12: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (all Foster's fault)
13: "A Spy In The House Of Love" (how did I get this far on the list without Anais?)
14: "To Kill A Mocking Bird"
15: "The Marvelous Land Of Oz" (am I alone in thinking this is the most badass of all the Oz books? Jinjur's all girl army, transgendered Ozma and plenty of Scarecrow and Tin Man being awesome!)

I like that "The Christmas Box" is possibly the only "slickback" book on the list. I have become such a literature snot, even my children's book picks are "classics" or at least ought to be. (Love for Diane Duane's Young Wizards series! That was my first exposure to sciencey magic and I am still a believer. We need more of those wizards around.)

Salad. Forget cooking, just go with fresh veggies. Throw in meats, cheeses and/or breads to your tastes/needs. Add dressing of choice, if you have one.

In related news: I recently discovered that I do not hate radishes.

Some how one of the two I had originally IS NOT DEAD. The blue one is a replacement of the other.

Also... if you can be bothered... feed them. It increases their happy and gets them closer to evolution.

Thanks!

Since I am already reading too many books at once (an thus not finishing any)- an ORDER!

(Frankenstein will be read throughout, since it has a schedule.)

Library Books First! (Because I am sick of being horribly late with them!)
1 -The Valley of Light
2 -The Emerald City of Oz
3 -(Something by Anais Nin, forget which one is being interlibrary loaned to me)
4 -(One of the Candace Savage books: Bird Brains, Witches or Cowgirls.)
5 -Marie Antoinette
6 -Have You Met Miss Jones?

NO MORE OVERLAPPING READS (other than Frankenstein, as mentioned above.) Other books will just have to wait in line or I will never finish anything.

Tea, solitude and cleaning.

It works! I am mostly not-sick now because I finally managed the "solitude" bit of the remedy yesterday. People, apparently, make me sick(er.)

Cleaning is not just a therapeutic thing, it really works. Change your bed set, do all that laundry that has been piling up- find your floor! I find that I get sick and run down when I do not have time to clean. Fresh laundry and bedding keep you from rolling around in your sick germs. Score one for "things my mother told me that actually turned out to be true."

... but on another note, mess your blankets up. Resist the urge to fix your bed. Partially to prove you are not a neat-freak zombie but also because (I forget where this info comes from) if CAN trap germs and ickies in.

-Frankenstein
-Julie and Julia
-The Valley of Light
-Howards End
-Scoop
-The Young Diary of Anais Nin (Vol. 1 at the very least)
-The Emerald City of Oz (and as many other original Oz books as possible)
-Twenty Years After
-Moby Dick
-Ahab's Wife
-Bird Brains (and other books by Candace Savage, because I can)
-The Wordy Shipmates
-John Adams (or any other Founding Father biography I feel like actually finishing)
-My Dearest Friend (considering reading one or two letters a night, could possibly make a blog about it)
-Alice in Wonderland (to see if I still hate it)
-TITHE (because Kenneth recommends, so it must be good?)

Any Suggestions?

I expect I will read less during the fall, even if I am only taking one class. I just do. Fall, I have noticed, is generally my worst season for reading. Still, I want to try and at least match the summer just to prove I can.

6/05- Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekin
6/06- Spring Awakening by Steven Slater (musical version of the Wedekin)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
6/08- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thonrton Wilder
6/13- Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson
6/16- I Love a Man in Uniform by Lily Burana
6/23- A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
6/24- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baim
7/09- Eloise: The Ultimate Edition by Kay Thompson (included because it was MASSIVE)
7/14- Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian (the title says it all, ugh!)
7/26- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (not as good as the movie, believe it or not)
8/06- Crows by Candace Savage (HIGHLY recommend)
8/10- The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
8/24- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (recommend with A Spy in the House of Love)
8/24- Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
8/27- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
8/31- The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum(these books are WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too fun!)

Incompletes:
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (savoring 'til the next book is out)
- Captain Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester (found lead character to be a little annoying)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (reading with a friend on a schedule, hence unfinished)
- Bird Brains by Candace Savage (newly out of the library and too bulky to carry with me to work)
- Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (picked up at train station this morning, first fall read?)

Suggestions for the Autumnal Reads?

But it looks so CUTE, I have to try. THE EGG is cute, imagine how cute the inside will be!

Libraries and literacy programs of course!

I have been looking at too many dresses today and partaking of too much "For Me and My Gal"

It is a bit of a march, of course, and quite patriotic. It is, after all, the Fourth (even if we really should celebrate on the Second.) I had to chose something from "1776" tonight... and this seemed a good song to match the day. I have been reading about Massachusetts Bay Purtains and their crazy "city on a hill" ways- what better way to compliment them then with another visionary Massachusetts badass as played by Mr. Feeny?!

Happy Fourth to my fellow USAsians!

These tend to be quieter than kitchen dance songs... might have something to do with the rest of the household being asleep (other than the cat.)

Far Away - Ingrid Michaelson

(I just do not spend nearly as much time in the kitchen during the summer... but I do spend a lot of time trying to make myself tired.)

Thank goodness "Desolation Island" is in at the bookstore, I was beginning to miss these dear gents. If this computer had a CD/DVD drive I would be watching "Master and Commander" right now.

Sera Myu... it was made to eat souls. Clearly the work of the Negaverse.