Moonie's Ramblings

[Prof. Moonie]

Well... I'm going to head off. Talk to you later.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Quickly dropping by to post this little meme thingy I found (and editing a bit for easier ability to see which ones I've read). So hence no colors. And I'll give a summary of today's events tomorrow.

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The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? More than 6? Watching the movies does not count. smile

Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those bold the ones you have read entirely, and italic those you have read partially. Tag some people.

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 Faulk
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
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 Meany - 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 d**k - 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 Inferno - Dante
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 Albom
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

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25 out of 100. I've read a fourth of the listed books. And there's a couple of those that I have on my want to read list, so... Sorry BBC, when it comes to me, I've read quite a bit of things, both through school and for personal interest. biggrin

Anyway... nighty night everyone.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Good morning everyone.

It's a snow day for me. My college campus is still open apparently, but I'm snowed in at home. Thankfully I only have one class today, and my professor said she wouldn't count anyone absent today due to some people not coming in for snow reasons, and the bus that goes to our campus not running. Makes me wonder if there's even going to be anyone there.

Makes me wonder how much snow there is at the campus in the first place. I find it sort of silly that my school is still open, despite all of the public schools around here being closed. *rolls eyes*  

[Prof. Moonie]

So... yeah. Once I'm finished getting dressed and what not, I'll probably go outside with my Mom and take pictures of the snow we have. Then I'll start working on my paper for 20th/21st C. Lit. class that's due on Monday. And judging by the few classmates that showed up yesterday in my 17th/18th C. Lit. class, there's a quite a few of us that are starting a bit late on writing this paper, lol.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Speaking of which... I promised I would give a run down of what all happened yesterday. So here we go...

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Yesterday I left for school, there was probably a couple inches of snow on the ground. There was no snow at campus. As soon as I got to my first class, there was a sign on the door informing us that class was canceled. I ended up going to the school's Library (first time I've been in there in fact) and went on one of their computers to check my school e-mail. Sure enough she had sent an e-mail out informing us that class was canceled due to her not feeling well ((about an hour or so after I checked it at home)).

After that I decide to walk around campus, and I saw that a lake had appeared by the trail entrance to Mill Creek (the creek that runs through our campus). So I walked down to take pictures of it. Snow started falling once I got there. After taking pictures, I walked back to the campus; was pretty soaked from the snow by then, lol. Ended up deciding to eat some dinner - about a half hour earlier than usual on my long school days. And figured out where I could get hot water for tea thanks to someone getting it for their Cup O' Noodles. *laughs*  

[Prof. Moonie]

After dinner, I went up to the seating area by my second class and watched the students of the Drawing class below do their artwork, and listen to their music. About 10 minutes before class started, one of my classmates checked her e-mail and learned that our class was canceled, because my professor had been checking on the forecast stuff.

So, I basically was a school for the most of the day doing basically nothing. Time I could've been using to write my essay and do other homework here at home. *rolls eyes*

I drove home, and basically just at the valley area at the bottom of our mountain snow started appearing on the roads. I basically was skiing up the hills sometimes. Left... right... left... right... *laughs* I thought I would've been able to make it home doing my skiing technique, but because of a person passing around me on our road on our hill, I had to slow down and ended up losing momentum. Ended up having to pull off into a driveway and call my parents to come get me. Dad tried to see if he would be able to get my car up, but because of all the traffic, the snow had become slush, making it even worse conditions for my car. It was getting to squealy and wasn't getting any traction ((I don't have any snow tires or chains for my car...)). So, in the end, we had to leave my car at the local marketplace, and we came home. The road conditions on our hill was so bad that we ended up having to put  

[Prof. Moonie]

Apparently there's a character limit for posts. Originally the last two posts were going to be one post, but it was too long. So, I had to break it into two.  

[Prof. Moonie]

La di da...  

[Prof. Moonie]

Off to eat lunch.  

[Prof. Moonie]

I'm heading off. Later.

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[Prof. Moonie]

Hello everyone.

Trying to figure out what the hell I want to write about for my 20th/21st C. Lit. paper. Sure I chose a bunch of quotes, but now... *sighs* I don't know. There's no big "ah-ha!" idea in my head. It seems like a bunch of randomly picked quotes from various sources.  

[Prof. Moonie]

All I have for the actual paper right now is the beginning paragraph. No thesis statement at this point though...  

[Prof. Moonie]

And it's not like I can choose my own topic. I had to write the paper in order to answer a question she's provided. *sighs* Bloody hell!  

[Cerebral Perception]

I've read 11 of 'em.  

[Prof. Moonie]

*listens to Little Boots' "Hands" album*