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Painting done, except for a couple spots where I got green paint on the ceiling and didn't notice in time to wipe them up, and will have to touch up with the yellow. Tomorrow I have to do that and also finish cleaning up all the detritus of the project.

Nicked from the lovely neeuqdrazil

Top 100 Banned Books

I've read...

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou


2. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier


3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck


5. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling


6. Forever by Judy Blume


7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger


8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker


9. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel


10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle


11. The Witches by Roald Dahl


12. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier


13. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood


14. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


15. Beloved by Toni Morrison


16. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


17. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes


18. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein


19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


20. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)


21. Cujo by Stephen King


22. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl


23. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume


24. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende


25. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut


26. Lord of the Flies by William Golding


27. Native Son by Richard Wright


28. Carrie by Stephen King


29. The Dead Zone by Stephen King


30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain


31. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison


32. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford


33. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman


34. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

It's actually rather difficult to remember: many of these are children's or young adult books and I no longer remember whether I've read them. Others came out after I was a kid.

Now this sounds more like me...

My anal-retentive thing about unpacking the moment I arrive in a hotel room? It doesn't apply on returning home. Suitcases generally have been staying semi-packed until the next trip.There has been a partially packed suitcase somewhere in my house pretty much consistently since I moved in in February. My ACN stuff is in fact presently in the middle of the kitchen floor, and I'm taking one or two items out as I need them.

It's not the same "living out of a suitcase" sensation, because I have tons of other stuff that's not in the suitcase.

Update: The anal-retentive thing about correcting typos on the other hand? That's still active no matter where I am.

I'm typing this at my computer, which sits against the west wall of my dining room. The morning sun is glaring off the screen so that I can barely see it. I had to turn it nearly 90 degrees to see it at all, and it's still very difficult. I really ought to put up some curtains, if only for this reason.

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Stupid M$ Outlook. If you click a link, it doesn't open a new instance of IE, it uses whichever IE window is on top. Now if that window happens to be the AIM Java client...you get summarily kicked off.

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Whee, there's an employee "Lunch 'n Learn" later this month on "Branding". Unfortunately it appears to cover neither of the more interesting definitions of that word that I can think of.