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I have been so lazy these last few days ever since my last day of school. I honestly feel like I have spent the majority of each day in bed. Yet, I did do something, I finished two books in th ree days which I was proud of my self for.
Here are the new ones I have read:
So yea I guess I am going to go back into my bed now and watch the yankee game...hopefully the yankees will finally be able to win a game .::fingers crossed::.
Here are some more books I have finished recently:
Last night Gary braved the treacherous roads to come and see me after he was done with work. We had lots of tickle fights and wrestling matches because he was trying to be funny by trying to pick my nose and make me eat it. Yea gross, and yes we are weird lol. After we watched a funny movie, School for Scoundrels. It was very funny. It had the guy, John Heder, from Napoleon Dynamite in it....no matter what character he plays he will forever be Napoleon Dynamite in my mind. Lots of funny parts to the movie. Gary left around 12:30 and I finished the last few pages in my book, Jodi Picoult's The Pact. It had a surprise ending which always makes me happy. And now I am up super early on a Saturday morning!
Yesterday, Friday night, I went to Book Revue to see Jodi Picoult speak about her new book. It was packed....at least a few hundred people over the fire hazard rule things. I had no idea she was born on Long Island, but she was! She did a reading of some excerpts from the book that just came out this week. I'm already almost finished with it. She also talked about her two upcoming novels which sounds REALLY good. Can't wait! I was all ready to get my book signed but there were so many people and out of my mom, gary, and I, I was the only one who was there to see her and felt bad for making them both wait so long just to get a signature.
Today I went out to Stony Brook with my family for my little bro's "Accepted Students" presentation and tour. I basically just sat in the library feeling like a zoo animal while all of the tours walked by and stared at me..."look a college student in her natural habitat...and oh my gosh...is she studying!" I felt ridiculous. I don't like being noticed...I like being invisible better.
Tonight I went to the couple I babysit for's going away party. I sat at the little kids table but I still had fun. Then at around seven I went back to the house with the babies while the parents stayed at the party. I didn't get home till after 12 which was fine but I am exhausted! I barely had any sleep last night. I am really going to miss them...they are so nice, you know just genuinely nice people. Then I got home and had a fight with Gary and now I kind of feel like being sick. So I am going to try to go to sleep. Good night!
I have been crazy busy these last few weeks. First was the stress of having to study for five tests that were all taking place in the span of three days. Not fun. Especially since they happen to all be extremely hard tests. I know I definitely bombed my Art History test because the night before I barely got any sleep and I forgot to study a whole time period of paintings and well I have the worst memory in the world. I completely blanked out on the painting identifications. I could barely remember anything. Oh well it isn't the end of the world.
While all of that crazyness is going on I had to go to the doctor because I was having abdominal pains in the region of where your appendix is located. I have had this for like a month so it obviously wasn't my appendix or I would have been severely sick and/or dead. I went to my regular doctor last month who said it was probably muscle strain (ok I felt dumb) but he said to come back if it didn't go away or got worse. Well it got a lot worse and I decided to see my OB/GYN. Well after many invasive tests (and I didn't even get taken out to dinner first!) she thought I might have uterine fibroids or an ovarian cyst. Well after the results came back there is nothing wrong. I'm starting to think I am crazy or just overly sensitive. Either way it still hurts and they don't have any answers except wait a little while longer and if it doesn't go away they'll do a CAT scan.
I have also been doing a lot of reading so that I could destress myself. I ended up reading another Jodi Picoult book that I sobbed the whole way through and could not put down. It was AMAZING! And I just finished another Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic book.
If you could write like one fiction author, who would it be?
Submitted by Marilyn.
I would love to write something like Jodi Picoult. I wouldn't want to write just like her because then I'm not being original but I just love her style. It's so captivating. I'm not really sure what captivates me; whether it's the topics that she writes about (usually topics that I wouldn't really read about because I would think they are too dramatic or that I don't want to hear about like divorce and rape) and draws me into them or just her writing style of throwing in subtle twists that keep you reading. I just finished another book of hers, Vanishing Acts, in only two days. So far I have read three of her books and can't wait to read more of them. She has a new book coming out the beginning of March called Nineteen Minutes about a school shooting. For some reason that topic captivates me. I think it has something to do with both the psychological aspects of why would someone do that, and the fact that it is so shocking to me. She is going to be coming to a local book store near my town and I think I might go check it out and get a book signed....even if I have to go by myself.
So these are her books that I have read and I can't wait to read more! I definitely suggest all of them.
The Tenth Circle is about a 16 year old girl who was just dumped by the boy that she was in love with. She tries to get him back by dressing provocatively and tries to make him jealous (the advice of her best friend). She ends up being date raped. The story goes into the details of her entire family structure and the demons that haunt her Dad who was a white boy who grew up in Alaska and her college professor mother. All of the story is also interweaved with Dante's poem "Inferno".
Keeping Faith is about a little girl who walks in on her father cheating on her mother. After the divorce the girl starts talking to an imaginary friend who she calls her "gaurd". The mother takes her to a psychologist who doesn't think that she is having hallucinations but might be telling the truth after the girl performs miracles and starts to show unexplainable stigmata. I read this book in one day, I just couldn't put it down, I had to find out what happened in the end.
Not too much happened this weekend, which I suppose is good since usually the school week is crazy/hectic/hellish/stressful. Friday night I got to see my man Gary. We ate Chinese food (yummy chicken lomaine) and played Final Fantasy XI. I love that game....it's so addicting. I also got to finally see Gary's videos of him dancing from when he was little. It's about time....we have only been dating for almost two and a half years (lol jk). He's probably going to get mad at me for mentioning his dance videos but oh well. They were cute!
Saturday after going to the NP and getting a new medication: lamictal. Yay add on a new one. We are hoping this one will finally help my depression. It's a slow titration so it's going to take over a month to get to the target dose and see if it helps. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because I am sick of being depressed and having my moods change like a roller coaster. This is only like the fifth medication I am trying.
After the doctor I went to Barns and Noble and purchased some new books. I don't know why the change but I have become a voracious reader lately. I finished one of the books I bought on Saturday, that same day. And it wasn't a short read either. It was just so good I couldn't put it down! The books I purchased are Keeping the Faith and The Tenth Circle both by Jodi Piccoult and Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. I wanted to post the pics but for some reason Vox kept freezing up when I tried to insert them.
So the book, Keeping the Faith, by Jodi Piccoult was the first one I started reading and the one I couldn't put down. It was about a family who just divorced because of the husband cheating. They (as in the wife and 7 year old daughter) walked in on him in the act. So they divorce and the daughter, Faith, starts saying she is talking to god. They think it's just an imaginary friend but then things start happening that can't be explained, such as her quoting Bible verses when she has never seen a Bible in her life, she resurrected her dead for an hour grandmother, she healed an AIDS baby, etc. It was SO interesting. I definitely suggest this book. But anyway...here is a quote (there are quotes that start each chapter) that I thought was really interesting:
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
-John Milton, Paradise Lost
Sunday, I just hung out around the house doing the oh so fun list of chores that I let build up. And I did some homework, that I also let build up. Oops!
