Finally, a literary meme! :O

Not cutting it 'cause it's not too long...

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.

- bold what you have read
- italicise what you started but couldn't finish
- strike through what you couldn't stand
- * add an asterisk to those you've read more than once
- Underline those on your to-read list.

1)Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2)Anna Karenina
* 3)Crime and Punishment - Love it!
4)Catch-22
5)One Hundred Years of Solitude
6)Wuthering Heights
7)The Silmarillion
8)Life of Pi : a novel
9)The Name of the Rose
10)Don Quixote
11)Moby Dick
12)Ulysses
13)Madame Bovary
14)The Odyssey
15)Pride and Prejudice
16)Jane Eyre
17)A Tale of Two Cities
* 18)The Brothers Karamazov - THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!
19)Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
20)War and Peace
21)Vanity Fair
22)The Time Traveler's Wife
23)The Iliad
24)Emma
25)The Blind Assassin
26)The Kite Runner
27)Mrs. Dalloway
28)Great Expectations
29)American Gods
30)A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31)Atlas Shrugged
32)Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
33)Memoirs of a Geisha
34)Middlesex
35)Quicksilver
36)Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
37)The Canterbury Tales
38)The Historian : a novel
39)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40)Love in the Time of Cholera
* 41)Brave New World
42)The Fountainhead
43)Foucault's Pendulum
44)Middlemarch
45)Frankenstein
* 46)The Count of Monte Cristo
47)Dracula
48)A Clockwork Orange
49)Anansi Boys
50)The Once and Future King
51)The Grapes of Wrath
52)The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* 53)1984 - WICKED.
* 54)Angels & Demons
55)The Inferno - I actually own it... seriously...
56)The Satanic Verses
57)Sense and Sensibility
* 58)The Picture of Dorian Gray
59)Mansfield Park
60)One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
61)To the Lighthouse
62)Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63)Oliver Twist
64)Gulliver's Travels
65)Les Misérables
66)The Corrections
67)The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
69)Dune - Sorry... I just don't like it...
70)The Prince
71)The Sound and the Fury
72)Angela's Ashes : a memoir
73)The God of Small Things
74)A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
75)Cryptonomicon
76)Neverwhere
77)A Confederacy of Dunces
78)A Short History of Nearly Everything
79)Dubliners
80)The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81)Beloved
82)Slaughterhouse-five - I want to read this so badly!!
83)The Scarlet Letter
84)Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85)The Mists of Avalon
86)Oryx and Crake : a novel
87)Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88)Cloud Atlas
89)The Confusion
90)Lolita
91)Persuasion
92)Northanger Abbey
93)The Catcher in the Rye
94)On the Road
95)The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* 96)Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Pffft, not only have I read it, I read their BLOG every morning ;P
97)Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
98)The Aeneid
99)Watership Down
100)Gravity's Rainbow
101)The Hobbit
102)In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
103)White Teeth
104)Treasure Island
105)David Copperfield
106)The Three Musketeers

Not as much as I thought it would be, but I dunno, I think I'm reasonably well-read...

I've been looking EVERYWHERE for a copy of my school schedule (....because dad accidentally threw mine out) and I found the one I put up on LJ a few weeks ago. :O How LUCKY am I?

I needed to know which block I had Chinese in next term because now I don't. My Chinese is teh suck, so my teacher suggested that instead of taking the Chinese Standard Level exam this year, I take the Chinese ab initio exam next year.

IB has different types of language exams:

Ab initio - the easiest exam, for students who have had NO experience in the language until high school (like me)
Standard Level (SL) - the middle exam, for students who've had some experience in their language before high school OR are native speakers
Higher Level (HL) - the "OMFGEVILHARD!!" exam for fluent students who have spoken that language since birth

So now I'm taking the ab initio next year instead of the SL this year, and I have a free block next term that I have to fill. I get to choose a new class to put in either block 2 or block 3! I'm hoping for IB Computer Science or Law, but it all depends on what's free...

So today I was chatting with my Chemistry lab partner, Mike, and (somehow?) we got to talking about negative personality traits. My stubbornness came up, and I thought I was only fairly stubborn, but apparently not. xD; He insisted that I was an EXTREMELY stubborn person, which I wouldn't have thought about myself. So I did a poll with three of my friends...

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how ... am I?"

Stubborn: 10, 10, and 11
Aggressive: 9, 9.5, and 9.999 (xD)
Intimidating: 0, 0, and 10
Silly: 10, 10, and 11.5

Which is funny, because this morning when I was talking with Mr Truss and introduced him to LOLcats on his laptop, he said he was SHOCKED that I was so amused by them. He said it was a relief that I wasn't "just into the news and politics and books and stuff." But when I first revealed my love of LOLcats, he just about shouted (mocking): "AAH, you're ruining my image of you as the serious, brooding intellectual!"

I'm a serious, brooding intellectual? xD Diana gave me a 11.5 on the 1-10 silliness scale...

BUT ANYWAY, I stole a Disney princess meme from yugisgirl1!

( Three-way tie between Jasmine, Mulan, and almost Belle. :O )

Guess who spent 6 hours in transit yesterday (Monday) coming home from Vancouver Island? Yup, c'est moi. I wanted to be back mid-day so I could make it to fourth period and take my Chem quiz... but it was not meant to be. I left my island home at 5am and walked in the front door of my mainland home at 11am. Still mid-day, but I had a MONSTER of a chemistry lab to write up that I wasn't able to do on the island (no internet access, and research was involved). I had to rest before I typed it up, I had had less than two hours of sleep, no coffee, and was effectively mentally DEAD.

So I slept for 45min, worked for an hour and a half, BLITZED my way out the door and barely caught the bus, handed in my lab, then ended up having to write my chem quiz on the spot. Dx Of course, having 2 hours of sleep and traveling for six hours since 5am, my mind was in no shape to write a quiz and I pretty much just stared at it for an hour Dx

Oh well, I got to roadtrip to Tofino over the weekend, home of surfing in BC! TOTAL HIPPY TOWN. Also, I almost got KILLED by a monster wave in Ucluelet (an hour or so south of Tofino). I was caught in sort of a rocky canyon by the ocean and saw a wave bigger than I was rushing towards me, and of course these things can kill you, no joke. Someone at my parents' church had his neck and back broken by a rogue wave around this area. I escaped though, obviously... @__@ managed to scramble up the cliff just in time. My mom saw the whole thing and was freaking out. xD;

CAN IT BE MEME TIEM NAOW PLZ?

1. Pick the month of your birth.
2. Bold the 5-10 things that most apply to you
3. Strike out everything that doesn't apply to you.
4. Place the list of all the months under a cut
5. Tag 6 people from your friends list to do the same. Consider yourselves ALL tagged!

DECEMBER:
Loyal and generous. Sexy. Patriotic. Active in games and interactions. Impatient and hasty. Ambitious. Influential in organizations. Fun to be with. Loves to socialize. Loves praises. Loves attention. Loves to be loved. Honest and trustworthy. Not pretending. Short tempered. Changing personality. Not egotistic. Take high pride in oneself. Hates restrictions. Loves to joke. Good sense of humor. Logical.

These were Rhia's choices, not mine, btw... but according to her I'm also sexy ._. Um..... okaaaayyyyy.... never would have used that to describe myself, ever... but she says it has been so since puberty. Liek woah? ._.

( Other months )

XD Yes, so apparently I'm the official "Voice of Dissent" in my Biology class...

First off, our Bio teacher is whack. She talks about meaningless crap for the whole class and then expects us to automatically know everything she didn't teach us. It's... pretty pathetic, actually, but it was at least TOLERABLE. Extremely extremely painful, but tolerable, at least as long as I had other homework to do and books to read during that class.

THEN, she started feeding us FALSE information and not answering our questions correctly!

In the assigned reading last night, we read about a scientist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (that life can come from non-life). So... this morning... she gives in-class notes that tell us he was the guy who CREATED the idea of spontaneous generation!

Of course, I never just sit there and take bullshit, so I interrupted and asked her why our textbook said that he was the guy who DISPROVED spontaneous generation.

"Well, yes, but before he did that, he came up with it."

WTF? The textbook itself said that he had set out to disprove two scientists before him who had "proved" spontaneous generation.

But of course she didn't listen.

So ten minutes later when she moves on to something else, my classmate Tim snuck over to my desk and told me to bring it up again. He had the exact quote from the textbook that proved she was wrong and told me he would back me up. Why didn't he do it himself? 'Cause he was scared and apparently I have a reputation for being the one who stands up to teachers in class.

Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

I never try to be rude or arrogant about it, but I guess I can come across like it sometimes. So many others just sit and absorb everything, and are afraid to say anything when they disagree... like teachers are gods or something. W/e, man. They can be sponge-like zombies if they want, I don't sit there and take bullshit.

The current song has been stuck in my head all week. xD; It's a Chinese song (rough translation: "Girl Opposite from Me, Look This Way") that we all karaoke'd in Mandarin last year for bonus marks. All of the sudden I started to hum it to myself this year and everyone near me is begging me to stop.

We karaoke'd to a flash animation of the song HERE: http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/jkrause/SWF/kanguolai.swf

Watch it, it's crack xD

In other news, my internet connection has been absolutely pathetic in the past few weeks. It's just... really, really bad. It goes out for entire days, and I can't get a connection for more than 20 minutes at once. The typical connection period I get lasts, oh..... THREE MINUTES. I can load one or two pages then it dies and I have to wait for a few more hours to get another three minutes. Dad keeps saying he'll call somebody, but he never does -_-. This is REALLY REALLY pathetic - he had BETTER NOT pay the internet bills this month, not a cent. If they dare to get mad at us, we'll just say... And just WHAT INTERNET ACCESS were we supposed to be paying for this month??

Yeah, it really sucks.

Stole a meme from jammyness!

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results

You know what's REALLY WEIRD? This is the EXACT same website and career test we had to take last year in Planning 10. I already had saved results (user: Port password: Moody for Port Moody Secondary... that's SO BRILLIANT and SECURE) from last year so I used those.

1. Public Policy Analyst
2. Professor
3. Political Aide
4. Lobbyist
5. Critic
6. Researcher
7. Criminologist
8. Writer
9. Market Research Analyst
10. Foreign Service Officer

Clearly, my destiny is in either politics or academia.

Went to the k-os concert on Saturday, and IT WAS AWESOME. It was full of so much win and pwnage that for me to describe it would be utter fail. If you have a chance to go see him, DO.

School started today - kinda. We only really went for an hour, just to get our timetables and lockers. As one of the "senior" students (at my school, "junior" means grades 9/10 and "senior" means grades 11/12... yeah, I know that's weird to ya'll in the US xD), I got to come at 1pm instead of 10am. But I had to drop off my brother at his high school at 9am, so I had to get up early anyway. x_x He doesn't know how to take the bus yet, so I had to go with him.

I HAVE BLOCK ONE OFF!! This is AWESOME. I get to sleep in another hour, I don't have to come to school until 9:45am, and then I get all my classes over and done with instead of having to sit around for an hour in between. The only downside is that I have four difficult courses in a row and Biology and Chemistry back-to-back at lunchtime... no eating is ever allowed in the Bio and Chem rooms because they're full of chemicals and worm eggs and crap like that. So I have to adjust my schedule to eat lunch either early in the morning or in the mid-afternoon. ):

ALL my courses are study courses, too. I am going to be SO busy.

Semester 1 schedule:
Block 1 - FREE
Block 2 - Mandarin Chinese 11
Block 3 - IB Biology 11
Block 4 - IB Chemistry 11
Block 5 - IB History 11

Semester 2 schedule:
Block 1 - IB Theory of Knowledge 12
Block 2 - IB Mandarin Chinese 12
Block 3 - FREE
Block 4 - IB Math Methods 11
Block 5 - IB English 11

So... yeah.

I'm staying in my mom's new apartment tonight, and it's FREAKING AWESOME. This is my first visit, I haven't seen her since she left last week. Some stuff about her apartment...

1. It's BIG. Bigger than the second floor of the HOUSE, and my house is really big (by Vancouver standards). Three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen, a porch, WIDE hallways, a living room... :D WHOOT! I've also got the biggest bedroom in the place.

2. It's ACTUALLY IN MY SCHOOL'S NEIGHBORHOOD. I live kind of far away from my school... it takes me two buses and more than half an hour to get there. Now it's one bus and less than five minutes (hell, I could just walk). This is crazy, because all the people I know from school live here (in Glenayre, this neighborhood). I recognize houses and shit... I even know where all the parties are held around here. O_o

3. LOL, we're scamming free wireless internet off of someone else in the building with the username "drummerboy". His access is more stable than ours at home!

4. I can actually cuss in mom's presence and talk about things I'd NEVER be able to mention in front of dad.

So yeah, staying at my mom's apartment = win.

I bask in my own awesomeness, I did an entire Comparative Civilizations 12 (World History) class in three days and I got a 97% in the course 8D

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But my poor overworked brain, my hideously disfigured sleep-cycle, and body wrecked by caffeine overdoses will never forgive me. v_v I think my heart rate is permanently stuck at 220% of what it used to be...

I need to return the CD-ROM that the distance education school gave me for the course - URGENTLY. Apparently, if it's not returned within a year (and the date either just passed or is just about to come), they get to keep the $250 deposit we had to make on it. My parents have been threatening me to finish the course so they can get their money back, and now that I finished it and DESPERATELY, DESPERATELY need to return this thing before they take our money, dad says he's just not in the mood to drive down there and return it. WTF?!

I'm so not going to take the blame for this -_-;

Also, I was on Vancouver Island for vacation last week... and am probably going to owe my parents a fortune anyway. I was staying in a different house than my parents, and my dad called me three or four times a day to notify me of things like "Breakfast's ready", "Coffee's ready", "We're going out", etc. NOW, we find out that every single one of those calls was LONG DISTANCE.

Yeah. SHIT.

And I just now found out that I don't have any text messaging deal on my cell phone plan. I thought I had unlimited texts for a set amount a month, but it turns out that each message is 15 cents. Sounds small, but I've suddenly started texting like WHOA this month. I multiplied the full capacity of my outbox plus the number of times I had to empty it for space... and I think I owe my parents AT LEAST $30 in text messaging fees.

DOUBLE SHIT.

Plus I need $40 to get into Anime Evolution at SFU this weekend, not including food for the weekend.

I desperately, desperately, desperately need a job. I owe my parents so much money...

I spent 8 hours at Starbucks today. The same Starbucks. I moved between something like four or five tables to escape the sunlight, because it hurts my eyes and kills my laptop screen >_<

I was in that Starbucks so long that they were closing when I left... and all the barristas were like, "Damn, doesn't that girl have somewhere to go?" (Yeah, exactly like that, but at Starbucks instead of Blenz. Blenz has the most crappy coffee ever... second only to the coffee that comes out of Nestle vending machines. EW.)

Two black coffees, one Americano, and a sugary lemon loaf. Yum.

Oh well, for the low low price of a coffee every two and a half hours, I can rent out a little table in the corner of a coffeeshop downtown. It's very nice, but sometimes I get too caught up listening to the music or watching the people go by to work. @_@; I *USED* to claim a table in the social science section of the library to work, but the library workers are all on strike, so it's going to be closed until God knows when...

I can't believe I worked for eight hours and only finished two and a half chapters... that's just crazy! D< Oh well, one more left... and then my final project... and I have to do them all tomorrow.

My dad has such a double standard for me and my brother. He still hardly lets me out of the house if he knows I'm going to be alone with a guy, even if that guy is a friend and has been my friend for years. And YET, when we were talking about our vacation next week, dad said my brother's girlfriend could come with us. WTF??? (Number one, why is my brother allowed to have a girlfriend if I can't even have guys as friends?) AND, he plans to let my (13-year-old) brother drive the car around the neighborhood on the Island, even though I (nearly 16) have never been allowed to drive before. WTF. SERIOUSLY.

There's some weird grinding noise coming from outside the house. O_o It's the second night I've been hearing it and I still have no idea what it is.