Llyr's Daughter

In Lieu of Substance

(I do not like the new Typepad format. Why does the preview come up in a pop-up? Why is the keyboard so slow?)

A meme! From Terby!

1.) What was I doing ten years ago?
Ten years ago I was working for a non-profit run by someone who liked being a big fish in a small pond. I was planning on leaving and going back to school in artificial intelligence.
This is not what I am now in school for.

2) What are five (non-work) things on my to-do list for today:
- take Not-So-Little-One to the doctor for kindergarten (!) paperwork
- get my harp out of purgatory
- exercise -- elliptical & stretching
- return too-big clothes (the NSLO is not quite that big)
- buy opera tickets

3) Snacks I enjoy:
(I like Terby's answers; I think I'll leave 'em.)
- chocolate
- popcorn
- tortilla chips and salsa
- I also like peanuts-in-the-shell

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
- Pay off my mother's & father's mortgages
- Set up a college fund for the NSLO
- Buy a (slightly) bigger house (no McMansions, thankyouverymuch)

5) Places I have lived:
- New York
- New Jersey
- Massachussetts


6) Jobs I have had:
Backstage lighting technician
Staff accountant
Dishwasher
Graduate student


I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you want to play, let me know so I can come read it!

I Like Memes

I saw this at And She Knits Too and my friend Marian's.
The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (although I don't remember it well & keep meaning to reread it)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I hated it)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick (I can't remember if I read this for school or on my own...)
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (see Moby Dick)
The Odyssey (I was assigned this for high school freshman er, first-year english. I would read all the way to the end, and then start again at wherever the class had gotten to and read all the way to the end... I read the end a lot.)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities (The only Dickens book I like. I'm told it's quite un-Dickensian.)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace (As a teenager. All on my own. And precisely to snobbily say I've read it.)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (I am not a fan of Dickens)
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex (just the excerpt published in The New Yorker)
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (Sad but true. But why would this be assigned for school?)
The Canterbury Tales (as in, we were only assigned part of it)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera (I think for a book report)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum (and then I realized one Eco is enough)
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (I tried so hard to find an unabridged translation. I do wonder what was taken out)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange 
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (I skipped the middle.)
1984
Angels & Demons (I just looked this up. Why does this make you look "smart or well-rounded"?)
The Inferno [and Purgatory and Paradise]
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (I know I read it, but I can't imagine which of my classes would've assigned it.)
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections (Ick. Ick, ick.)
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 : a memoir
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 (At least, I don't think I finished it.)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers