Allison

I'm not really into doing much. I've been playing more video games, which is probably a side-effect from my job. I can't think of anything that I'm really passionate about lately, hobbywise. I don't feel that I'm missing anything, but it does make for boring livejournal entries.

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I have technically stepped in Virginia, but that was like fifteen minutes, so whatevs.

And damnit minnesota, really? REALLY?!

Just wanted to practice typing with colemak.

One of these days, I'll practice enough where I can actually keep up with my thought process.

Looks like it's gonna be a long, hard slog through the end of the semester. Le sigh.

We finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm having withdrawals I think. At least I keep having these incredible dreams. I'd like to encourage anyone who's taken their time in choosing to watch to go ahead and do it. It was so wonderful!

And this concludes my Practicing Typing in Colemak post.

(p.s. we've decided to watch Giant Robo next. It seems to be pretty good, too)

okay, so we decided that tonight would be get drunk night.

I'm doing the best I can, but what's nuts is that I decided to see if I could still type in colemak.

Turns out I can! At 16 wpm, which is about what I quit at. Go body memory!

anyway, the entire reason behind this post is just my wanting to practice typing.

Blah blah blah, BBC thinks we're all unread fools.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X

Total: 10

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
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 X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 2

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

Total: 4

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

Total: 6

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (I think I saw the play though!)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 4

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 X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 2

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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 Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 3

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
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 (I'm working on it!)

Total: 2

80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (saw the movie ;D)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (saw the play :x)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 2

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 5

Absolute Total: 40

Mosquito bites don't leave bruises, do they?

I have infinity more cuts and scratches and lacerations from the time of my last post, thanks to Lola. She loves me harsh.

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The Chemical Brothers - Hold Tight London: 208 plays
Jim Croce - A Long Time Ago: 145 plays
DJ Satomi - Waves: 128 plays
Elliott Smith - Bottle Up and Explode!: 126 plays
Françoise Hardy - Mon Ami Le Rose: 78 plays

Anyways, I'm grateful to everyone who indulged me in my last post. Thank you very much <3

Just wanted to whore this picture out one more time xD

Just look at all these awesome songs
SHADOW DANCER - PALMS OUT SOUNDS OF SUMMER MIX - JULY 2009

BECK // Alcohol
RHYTHM & SOUND // No Partial
THE BUGGLES // I Love You (Miss Robot)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS // Wherever You Are
BANDULU // Selah
μ-ZIQ vs. THE AUTEURS // Underground Movies
THE SABRES OF PARADISE // Return Of Carter
RIC OCASEK // Jimmy Jimmy
THE FLAMING LIPS // Are You A Hypnotist??
HALF COUSIN // Tiles
JONNY L // I Let U
THE CARS // Panorama
AIR // Mike Mills
JON BRION // So Now Then
BROADWAY PROJECT // Revolution Waltz
JEAN MICHEL JARRE // Ethnicolor II
RED SNAPPER // Crusoe Takes A Trip
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE // No One Knows
MOTORBASS // Fabulous
THE CLASH // Guns Of Brixton
PLAID // Coat
HERBIE HANCOCK // Chameleon
MIKE & RICH // The Sound Of Beady Eyes
ULTRAMARINE // British Summertime
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE // Soldier Girl
BRIAN ENO // Signals
FRIDGE // Cut Up Piano & Xylophone
TUNNG // Bullets
PETER GABRIEL // Games Without Frontiers
PAVEMENT // Summer Babe
BEASTIE BOYS // Jimmy James
BOARDS OF CANADA // In A Beautiful Place In The Country
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT // Mammagamma (Instrumental Version)
JUNIOR WALKER & THE ALL-STARS // What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?
DJ KRUSH // Meiso (DJ SHADOW Klub Mix)
REPEAT // Drifting Sounds Of Wikiki
INCOGNITO // Out Of The Storm (CARL CRAIG's Planet E Special Mix)
PAUL GIOVANNI & MAGNET // Willow's Song
SQUAREPUSHER // Tetra-Sync
GRANDADDY // The Warming Sun
MASSIVE ATTACK // Unfinished Sympathy
DOVES // There Goes The Fear
THE BYRDS // Eight Miles High
SIMIAN // One Dimension
RELOAD // Le Soliel Et La Mer (GLOBAL COMMUNICATION Remix)
BOLA // Forcasa 3
DIOS // Just Another Girl

I was around!

(I heard this on kxua last weekend and it was pretty awesome. Or I think I heard it on kxua. The DJ mentioned it, but I'm not good at realizing if they're talking about the last track or previous ones, etc)

link: http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2009/07/sounds-of-summer-12-shadow-dancer.html

This one seemed particularly relevant, considering the nick I was using.
[23:03:22] <Hermione Granger> dude
[23:03:23] <Hermione Granger> it's canon
[23:03:25] <Hermione Granger> right there
[23:03:26] <Utamaru> Hermione Granger: I suggest you seek professional help, as you don't seem to realize that *you* are Right!