Book Meme

Taken from Heels

Bold those you've read.
Italicize books you have started but couldn't finish.
Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
Underline those on your To Be Read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Dracula*
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere*
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon***
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down***
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit ***
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

This list makes me sad. Is this possible because I skipped the last 2 years of highschool? I have a college education but have never taken a literature class.
And how the *#@% do I know so much about Greek mythology having never read The Odyssey or The Iliad?
Maybe I watch too much TV.
lovely

Thank You Tempest!

I found this whilst reading one of my heros blogs. It really strikes a cord. I'm glad to see what i've been telling myself a lot lately, suddenly reaffirmed.
So Thank you Tempest!


7 good things to repeat aloud for your sanity:

1. I am not responsible for other people's insecurities.
2. Other people's insecurities are reflective of their issues, not my own.
3. Some people would rather be negative towards other people rather than deal with their own issues.
4. Insecurity and jealousy are nasty bedfellows.
5. I alone can be responsible for my issues and actions.
6. The universe balances all things. We might not like how it does it, or how it long it takes, but balance will happen regardless.
7. Balance comes first from within me, not from others.

AFRESH-ED with God goodness

At work on Monday I found this



In my vanity I thought, "oh no. The kid next door has a crush."
Then I opened the 'love note'



Thats right! Read up kids and become AFRESH-ED with God goodness!
WTF?!
AFRESH-ED?!
Thats not even a word!!!! But the best thing was inside there was a dollar!
Jesus loves me so much he gave me a dollar!
I thought to my self, "Self, if there is one, there must be more!" And so I had a kind of Easter egg hunt.(get it.... jesus... easter egg hunt... snicker)
*note - mondays are very slow at work
I found three! Jesus loves me so much he gave me THREE dollars!
I felt so AFRESH-ED! When I got home and showed elex he asked if I went shopping at other stores to find more of them. What a splendid idea!
sigh. good day.
lovely
oh yah and that same day Sierra Dan came in, did my numerology, guessed at my heritage and called me the Queen of the Candy Kitchen!

Murphys BellyDance Festival

Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce I'll be teaching a workshop at the Murphys Belly Dance Festival this Sat. Oct. 6th

Subject matter : Stage Presence and Why it's Important.

Workshop will be mostly lecture but I will lead a quick warm-up to get the blood flowing. There will also be some short exercises in Projection and Technique.

So Please! Come on out if you can and show some support or Just come to see the show. Lots of very talented performers and some fabulous vendors await!

Thanks
Lovely Thalisha

Killing Time in Oregon

i'm happy to anounce that i am blogging via PSP at the portland airport. Hooray for free wireless! Properly buzzed after Bloody Mary after 6am flight and during stupid layover. May have another. lovely