Swiped from lilithilien: "In what five fictional locations would you love to live?"

(1) Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- even if I have to be a house elf, but I'd much rather be teaching potions or the history of magic

(2) Neverland -- but not as some girly-Wendy, or as a fairy. I'd want to be the baddest-ass lost girl

(3) Yoknapatawpha County -- because I'd never get bored peering into the lives of William Faulkner's characters

(4) Cicely, AK -- I never have gotten over my crush on Chris Stevens (played by John Corbett), and I think I'd enjoy shopping at Ruth-Anne's store and having a beer at the Brick

(5) The United Federation of Planets -- I really am that geeky.

So, despite the usual rocky start (when I wake up and feel my heart seize up because I can no longer call up my mom to wish her a happy birthday and get the same greeting in return), my day turned out pretty nicely, largely because I engineered it to do so. I'm big on leveraging the power of positive intention these days.



All in all, it was a very good day. If you want some picture-proof, look here.

Apparently, the Catholic Church has decided that it's okay to believe in and share God's love with space aliens. If you are a gay human being, however, you're pretty much still guaranteed a lifetime of denial and self-loathing followed by a trip straight to the sulfurous pits of Hell.

Vade in pace.

To all those on my f-list who fall into the appropriate demographic category, Happy Mother's Day!

and brainy, too!

This is my happy stuff for the weekend:




Congratulations, totidem_verbis, on your gradumatation!

Skyped from glittersuicide
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.
1. Bold the ones you've read
2. Underline the ones you read for school
3. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Anna Karenina
Beloved
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Jane Eyre
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Prince
The Silmarillion
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Life of Pi : a novel
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons
Atlas Shrugged One
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Les Misérables
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Slaughterhouse-five
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Fountainhead (See reaction to Atlas Shrugged)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Historian : a novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
The Sound and the Fury
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

Skyped from lipsthatkiss, mztea, and liquiid_static. I managed to up my percentages by claiming I did everything with _redhotwords_!

Ripe as this question may be for those of us minded toward making jokes and cracking wise, my absolute favorite news of the day is this story about a few residents of the Greek island of Lesbos who are taking a gay rights group to court for using the word "lesbian" in its name.

My favorite bit is the quote from the guy who complains, "My sister can't say she is a Lesbian."

Well, she can, but I think she's going to have to do a few things to prove it, right?

I live 1.5 miles from the Park & Ride. It took 30 minutes to get from my house to the Park & Ride this morning because a traffic light was out just west of the Park & Ride. Technically, I still caught the "early" bus because it was stuck in the same traffic that I was. EOM

I'm sitting in the airport in San Diego, waiting for my flight back to Seattle to board. (sigh) In addition to missing daddysir already, I'm not all too eager about coming home to more cold weather. Seriously, I have a sunburn, and I've been wearing flip-flops for the last 4 days.