Hello, my pretties...
It has been a very long time, and though you might not believe me, I have been checking in on you lovely people occasionally. I have no internet in my home, so sitting freezing to death in a Mitchell library. But that's ok.
It's been a hard summer for me and a lot of people I know, which is a shame - will we ever have a summer like we dream of? Happiness, blue skies, romance. Do things like that even exist now? I'm not allowed to complain though. I'm thinking about this new thing... where I stop pitying myself so much and start getting on with my life. And that is what this year is about - getting on with my life. Moving on, starting anew, being a success, maybe getting thin if I have the energy after all that other stuff. So, I'm sorting out a plan.
Part of that is going to be getting more involved here as well. I am very busy, but I don't have an excuse not to be submitting since I have to write as part of my course now - meaning there should be at least one new piece or revision a week. I'll try and submit it even if I don't like, 'cause that is sorta the point isn't it? I also picked up a pencil and pad the other day, for the first time in months. It is a shame that I have neglected these parts of my life, but I guess I'm just not one of those people who express their current emotions in their art - only in retrospect.
Anyway, that's the plan, so kick me if I fail, yeah? I'm relying on you guys.

Just so that I remember when I get home...

5th April - Lucy's birthday.
8th April - Mom stays over.
11th April - Carol's Bbq.
14th April - Vic. Goth. essay due.
20th April - Nab. essay due.
24th April - Dissertation deadline.
28th April - Aaron's birthday party/ Writers party prov.
31st April - Jour. Pop. Cul. essay due.
12th May - Exam.
19th May - Post. Mod. Exam.
29th May - Exam.


AARRRRGGGGHHHH. I don't have time for all this stuff!!!! No social life for Jenna. (except those 2 or 3 dates already marked since I already agreed.

Apparently, according to the BBC, people have read an average of 6 books from this list... no idea how accurate that is, but let's see...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ()
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible - ()
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 1984 - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()

Running total: 5

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()

Running total: 6

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)

Running total: 8

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)

Running total: 10

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ()
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )

Running total: 12

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )

Running total: 13

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (x)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()

Running total: 15

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )

Running total: 17

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()

Running total: 18

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()

Total = 21

Bit pathetic for an English student really.

And it's making typing difficult. But I am writing! And actually doing readying for class. Amazing!
Going to the New Years thing in George Square if anyone else is attending.

No, he never cleans up...

But I do, and I just cleaned up my gallery. Argh, it's so irritating the things I used to think were cool and good, so I updated them, but actually, they're pretty crap. There's still some of my very OLD art in scraps, 'cause it's just representative of me when I was 15 (can you believe that was a whole 4 years ago?). Anyway. I was rather crap, lol. And I like to think that I've improved. Even if it's only in my writing.
Ruth is going to see if she can find my gay slash fiction when she goes home. So we can see what my writing was like in High School... beyond the likes of Bunny and Ducky, which is just supreme.
But! I got my nails done today and typing with long nails is just the weirdest thing ever.