Easy like Sunday morning:

It was a huge decision to hold off on grad school-possibly for good-but I feel good about it. All the papers are written, projects are all turned in, final grades are posted...the semester is officially done! Farewell, Shakespeare. See ya later, Chaucer. Adieu, courtly love! Even though this was a tough/scary decision to make...it feels like (corny cliche alert) a weight has been lifted. It is corny, but oh so true! I feel good.

Not quite as good as this guy, but close.  I may regret it later-like when next semester starts and I know that I could be taking 21st Century Lit instead of whatever lame thing I end up doing...hopefully it will not come down to that though.







On a slightly weirder note, this past week was supposed to have been the rapture.  I am still here.  I still have not heard of one person being called up, so either it didn't happen, or there are a lot less righteous people than we all originally thought... My dad is still here on earth, so we must be ok for now.  I will quickly catch you up if you don't know my dad.  He is a very conservative Church of Christ preacher who spends every waking moment either talking about or studying about Jesus/God.  Even if you do not believe anything at all you have to give my dad props for knowing so much about his chosen field.  I can remember watching shows with my dad when I was a kid of people predicting the end of the world.  He would always get really flustered and shout, "Well, we will be ok on that day!!  If someone suspects that Jesus is coming we are safe!!" I am not entirely sure that the whole "He will come like a thief in the night" passage works quite like that, but...whatever floats your boat!

Sorry, I got a little side tracked...that last paragraph was supposed to be chronicling my homeless palm-reading experience (which would make daddy so proud!).  Friday morning I went out to fifth for a break.  My buddy, Krissy was already out there...and talking to a rough-looking guy.  We exchanged pleasantries and I went about my business-Krissy was talking to the guy. Blah, blah, blah.  Eventually, the guy said that he would read our palms if we didn't have any problem with it.  I thought it would be interesting...so I gave him my right hand.

So, this gypsy guy-who, let me say, smells like a walrus-takes my hand and begins to "read my palm." He told me that I would live to at least 75, that I am smart, intuitive, open minded, that I have a tight family, a good lover, a good listener, etc, etc, then he gave me his email address...so he could get to know me :/ This was, as I have said, an interesting experience, but I do not put any stock in it.  Any smelly guy on the street can tell a girl what she wants to hear.  Needless to say, I will not be contacting this guy.



So...I feel good even though the world was supposed to end this week because Imma live until I am 75!

The Week of Books!

This past week at work I listened to 4 books...a book a day until Thursday-when I started a longer one.
So, the list goes a little something like this: 

• Monday-Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.
• Tuesday-The Giver by Lois Lowry.
• Wednesday-Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk.
• Thursday/Friday-The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan.

The Nashville Public Library has a new (well, new to me at least) contraption called a Playaway. 

This little ingenious box of wonderment has kept me sane at work this past week, while keeping my itunes account/bank account looking more how I would like for it to look! :D  Since I am not, nor have I ever been, the world's greatest student, this past semester I have bought quite a few of Shakespeare's plays (audio book style) via itunes.  This gets really pricey!!  With these little Playaway boxes though, you don't have to download anything!  The book is pre-loaded onto this little box. All you have to supply is a set of headphones and you are good to go!!  So, this week-with the help of our neighborhood library-I have devoured 4 books!

 

• Bud, Not Buddy is a great book about a little boy, "Bud, Not Buddy," who has been an orphan for most of his life.  Readers see this funny little boy grow into a young man while being brought along for a ride as he struggles to find the remnant of his family.

• The Giver is about a boy, Jonas, who lives in the "perfect" society.  The elders decide what job you will have and who you will marry.  Everyone in this society (except Jonas and the Giver, who is passing memories of how the world used to be) is perfectly content with this society-even though no one in this society is allowed to make their own decisions and no one sees color.  This book was really good too.  I love books like this! :D

•  Fight Club is one of my favorite movies!! So, I thought I would give the book a go-since the book is usually so much better than the move.  I feel like the movie stayed pretty close to the book.  There are, of course, a few major differences, but the book was really good!  Love the book, love the movie!! Thanks, Chuck!

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a crazy book about Zombies.  It reminded me of M. Night Shyamalan's movie, The Village.  Just like in The Village there is a village in the middle of the forest, a forest which has something in it (this time Zombies) which the villagers are terrified of.  Mary, a girl who was born and raised in the village struggles with the idea that there is something else out there...something past the forest of hands and teeth.

I love books!  Thank you Nashville Public Library for making my book addiction easier and less expensive!!