people are giving me bad vibes right now. seems like everyone's pissed off.
in a situation such as this, do you fight or flight?
Merissa.
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I had a horrible day and night yesterday.
It started with a sore throat, then shivering, muscle aches, then my face is burning up!
I hate being sick, which i rarely am!
So, i was dying, i wasn't hungry and i hurt everywhere! I stayed in bed and tried to see the bright side...Big Bang Theory was on.
It got worse at night, i couldn't sleep, because my face was burning, and too much movement was a pain, and when i did manage to get some sleep, I had a horrible dream!
It wasn't a nightmare, it was a dream where it was so precise and required so much thought, i dont know how to explain it, but i wanted to kill myself!
Finally just gave up on sleep and took a warm then cold shower, the hot water was gone( it felt pretty good).
Thankfully, i am better know, but still sick.
sigh... hopefully I'm 100% better by the end of the day.
For some reason I've become really anxious to grow up. I want to be out of school, and living my life, i dont know what i would be doing with that life, career wise, but i want to get to that phase already. I'm barely going to turn 18! Yes, im happy, i can finally do things without needing my parents consent; for example, apply for a library card without the need of a parent signature, (which i would forge anyway). I found this ridiculous, I'm in college, and i still need my parents signature to check out some books! So sad....
But what can i do but wait....
One of goals is to travel, i have so many destinations i want to go to, my eyes start sparkling just thinking about it, and i know i will. I have already promised myself that i would accomplish this goal. Recently i have been looking into a trip to japan on the eftours website, it is a very inexpensive flight for about an 11 day tour! I am dedicated to finding a job and saving up for it, i wont ask my parents for the money, which they wouldn't have anyways....
matane
My fingers hurt, i have become editing pictures, practically the whole day. I cant stop its so fun! And because of that i missed dinner, and the dining hours, ends at 8:00. I think ill end up eating popcorn and cereal for dinner...not a great combination.
And here's a picture...not sure i like it, but its different.
...I have recently been rereading Boys Over Flowers, and i will never get tired of it, i still laugh, cry and get angry whenever i read it. Yes cry, i am a crybaby, but strangely not when it comes to real life.
-oyasumi.
I realized that I shouldn't be responsible for anyone but myself. I try to care for someone but that someone must care for themselves first.
Care for yourself first. Then care for someone. That's how it's supposed to be.
The next time you are in a dilemma, think of how it affects you first, then think of others. If you don't take care of yourself, who else will? Who's to say that the person you care for would care about you the same way?
It's not selfishness. It's self love and respect.
merissa.
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Starting in January, I will be participating in the Abandoned Books Challenge posed by BookCrosser Secretariat. So here is my list of books that I have abandoned but would like to try again. I am sure I won't be able to get through all of these in a single year, but I will update this post as I finish them.
The Quincunx
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Cryptonomicon
Anna Karenina
Nineteen Eighty-Four
New Moon
My Life in France
The Monkey's Raincoat
21 Great Stories
Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories
Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
Botchan
The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary
The Audacity of Hope
The Lord of the Rings
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Gargoyle
The Amber Spyglass
The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents
Night of the Big Heat
Shadows of Chaco Canyon
God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
Nature Via Nurture
Vikings: The Battle at the End of Time
Touching Tomorrow
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
The Uninvited Countess
Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work
The Merchants
Night Music
From the Darker House
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
King Solomon's Mines
The New Jackals
Twain, Plains & Automobile
Master and Commander
Dragonsdawn
What's the first exhibit you visit at the zoo?
I head for the big cats.
I did manage. But it was not a fast-paced, speedy, one-setting read as I was expecting. For those of you who follow my twitter (@bookfiend), you know I was complaining about the pace of this book. I guess I was expecting something like National Treasure, but in book form - fast, action-packed, non-stop intrigue. While The Lost Symbol ultimately proved enjoyable, it took a while for the ride to build up.
In The Lost Symbol, Professor Robert Langdon makes his third appearance. I must confess, I don't remember all the details of the previous books. I do know that I really liked The Da Vinci Code and was not at all impressed with Angels and Demons. Unfortunately, in this installment, the book fell closer on the scale toward Angels and Demons.
The action starts with Robert's receiving a phone call from an old friend, Peter Solomon, who asks Robert to come to D.C. to give a lecture. When Robert gets there, however, he finds a disturbing object in the Capitol Building, along with the news that his friend has been kidnapped. The madman challenges Robert to decipher a Masonic secret in order to get his friend back. Robert, along with Peter's sister, Katherine, race against the clock and the CIA to solve the mystery.
I didn't enjoy the pacing of the book. It felt like the action didn't get started until mid-way through the book, which at 500 pages, was a bit too long of a wait. The problem is because of the sheer amount of symbolism and history and myths, it all takes a while to explain. The way it's done is through flashback. Every few pages, Robert would think about some event in the past that explains something. It really slowed down the pace. Also, there is a tendancy for Robert to lecture on something. It kind of felt like I was getting a history lesson or something at some points in the book. I mean, I appreciate the difficulty in imparting this type of information to the reader. But I don't know, something about the way it's done slowed down the book a lot and made the action flow much more slowly.
As for the plot, while enjoyable, I'm not sure it is all that intricate. I kinda figured out who the bad guy is long before the end of the book. The plot seems more philosophical than anything else. I don't want to say any more to spoil anyone. But suffice it to say, from the author who penned both Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci code, I should have expected this level of religious undertone to the book.
Overall, while the action finally picked up and the overall story was enjoyable, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I would definitely recommend reading it, but perhaps not worth buying the hardback version. B-.
