You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.



Back Then
Viva La Migra!

I know:
Jay's Vicious Cycle
Naked Tortue
Pleure Jacqchhhhh
Odd Duck
Momma
Natalia-san
Minhhh
Sunnie's Green
I stalk:
Petit Hiboux
Incidents and Accidents
This Imploding Heart
Shivery
Londonmark
Geese Aplenty
Que Sera Sera
Scaryduck
The Plug




I read:
Current: Don Quixote (Cervantes)


-Still Life With Woodpecker-
-Devil In The Details: Tales From An Obsessive Girlhood-
-Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba-
-The Poisonwood Bible-
-Adam's Navel-
-Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim-
-Naked-
-Shadow Puppets-
-The End-
-The End Of The World News-
-The Penultimate Peril-
-The Grim Grotto-
-The Slippery Slope-
-Shadow of the Giant-
-The Stories of Eva Luna-
-Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography-
-The Carnivorous Carnival-
-The Hostile Hospital-
-The Vile Village-
-I Am Legend-
-What Dreams May Come-
-The End Of The World News-
-Ender's Shadow-
-Catcher In The Rye-
-Lullaby-
-Oryx and Crake-
-Daughter of Fortune-



~Year Two~
-The Book Of The Dead-
-The Bookseller of Kabul-
-House of the Spirits-
-Children Of The Mind-
-On The Road-
-L'Ingenu-
-Zadig-
-This Side of Paradise-
-Invisible Monsters-
-Xenocide-
-Tam Lin-
-Speaker for the Dead-
-God Emperor of Dune-
-Ender's Game-
-The Urban Villagers-
-Intensity-
-The Life of Pi-
-Reading Lolita in Tehran-
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-
-The Russian Debutante's Handbook-
-Bleachers-
-Persuasion-
-Children of Dune-
-The Princess Bride: Good Parts Version-
-Dune: Messiah-
-The Last Juror-
-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-
-The King of Torts-
-The Thief Lord-



~Year One~
-Dune-
-The (Ultimate) Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy-
-Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-
-Blood Done Sign My Name-
-The Time Traveler's Wife-
-My Love Affair With England-
-Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason-
-Bridget Jones' Diary-
-Political Writings: Defoe-
-The Best of Cordwainer Smith-
-Tuesdays With Morrie-
-Mosquitoes-
-Brave New World-
-The Last Unicorn-
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven-
-The Tempest-
-Othello-
-Selected Canterbury Tales-
-Beowulf-
-Things Fall Apart-
-Eats, Shoots, And Leaves-
-Royal Scandals-
-Closing Time-
-Guest of the Sheik-
-Catch 22-
-Anna Karenin-
-The Forest People-
-Song of Susannah-
-The Testament-
-Last Chance to See-
-Catch Me if You Can-
-Wolves of the Calla-
-The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul-
-Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency-
-Fashion: A Concise History-
-Fight Club-
-Bare Feet in the Palace-

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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Total Fiction, and all of it true.

Okay so I mostly just wanted a spiffy title. There really isn't anything literarilly fantabulous going on here. Literarilly, not Literally.
Literarilly
adv: with respect to literature or writing; "literarilly speaking, this excerpt is extremely engaging, though somewhat lacking in bohemiaristic subtextualizations."
Not much has happened of late, but I haven't been bored either. I killed my computer, almost a year to the date that I killed my last computer. The newspaper-type-entity at school published an article I submitted, and I'm now thoroughly ashamed for various reasons. My computer turned out to be fine, and it was the monitor that had succumbed to somber death. I "failed" a math test. I did well on a math test. The manager at work called me weird. Actually it was more involved than that.
I was shelving stuff that was in a cart, with one leg up on the cart and bending down sort of yoga-like to put things on the pegs. It feels good, since I'm in my feet a lot and we aren't technically allowed to sit down. Plus, it makes the monotony a little more challenging and is fun. Anyway, Guido* made a comment along the lines of "Look at that? Who does that? That's not normal!" Andre the Manager says, "I resigned myself a long time ago to the fact that nothing she ever does is normal." They then watched Guido demonstrate my other one-foot technique, with one knee bent and the foot resting on the other knee. He couldn't do it very well, so I demonstrated myself.
It was decided (as it had been multiple times before) that my attitude is something along the lines of "Hey,*spins* I'm Sonya. *shrugs, one foot in air* F*%# you." Guido actually did a little physical accentuation on that one.
And the article. I submitted it in three sizes, so that I could get an estimation of the size desired for something else I was supposed to write. It's true, I offered to write something about that, er... subject... if it was needed. Anyway it was a funny little thing about some of the horrendous stuff I've seen here but was not something I expected to see in the paper. Oh well. I consider it fair play since I was a wee flakey. Mostly I was struck by the burning need for a copyeditor. Honestly. I wish I had the get-up-and-go for that sort of position, because I certianly carry a decent (though by no means perfect) gramatical torch.

*all names have been changed. Not particularly to protect them, but because it is fun.


-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

. ( 6.4.06 ) .