KatnNC

katnnc @ 2009-01-27T19:39:00

2009-01-28T00:50:54Z

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (some of it)
16. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. A Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
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 – A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LMMontgomery
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
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert (Entire Series)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
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 inthe Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
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' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – A.S. Byatt
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 – E.B. White
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
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit 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
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Thank you Mr President

2009-01-20T18:47:37Z

Thank you for restoring my faith in your office, thank you for restoring my pride in being an American, thank you for the rejuvination of the spirit of our great nation. Your speech made tears run down my face and chills sweep my body. You have rallied the people to your call, I pray we have the stregnth to follow your vision and that we do not disappoint you. Thank you Mr President, this is a great day in our history.

If you are not a sports fan then you might want to skip

2008-09-08T21:18:49Z

I really don't want to celebrate anyone's bad luck, but karma is biting Tom Brady in the ass. Yes America, I am not a Tom Brady fan. What kind of jerk has an affair on his girlfriend when she is 7.5 month pregnant with his child with a supermodel. As if she didn't feel fat enough being pregnant, he leaves her for a twig. To top it off it was all in the tabloids, no privacy for the poor thing. I am happy he didn't have a perfect season last year, and I won't miss him this year. Karma's a bitch.

Watching the ships come in

2008-07-21T23:25:00Z

I am in Baltimore for the week for the conference and I have an absolutely gorgeous view from my room of the Baltimore Harbor. I am not sure what I was expecting, but I walked around the inner harbor area this afternoon, and it was really quite lovely. I am looking forward to me week here!

Mamma Mia

2008-07-19T03:41:32Z

Just got home and it rocked! I danced in my chair, sang along to the songs, lauged, cried, laughed till I cried. It rocked. Won't win any awards but just plain fun. If you go make sure you stay long enough for the encore!!!!

Just call me Calamity

2008-05-29T14:33:57Z

It seems that I have mad skills when it comes to doing really stupid things at work. It has only been about 3months since I got knocked out at work and got to spend a lovely week at home with a concussion. This morning though, I really proved that I am an idiot. While serving myself a wonderful bowl of grits this morning in the cafeteria, I got distracted and accidentally poured the hot bubbling grits all over my hand. Woohoo, do I know how to have fun or what! Now I am sitting here typing with one hand, pretending that my skin is not on fire and the blisters are really just big freckles. I am sure the rest of the day is just going to be peachy!

Pink toes

2008-03-13T00:47:55Z

What is it about painting your toenails pink that makes the day just that much happier? I painted my toenails last night and every time I got stressed today all I had to do was look at them and it made me smile every time. I love spring!

Purple Bra, White Shirt

2008-01-07T23:17:06Z

Yes, I went to the bathroom this morning after my first meeting and noticed that I had my purple bra on underneath a crisp white shirt. I really need to start drinking caffeine in the morning. Luckily, with my jacket you could hardly tell. Oh well, at least I keep things interesting.

What do my stars say about me?

2007-11-19T03:54:31Z

Day 5

2007-10-16T00:45:20Z

This is day five of peeing blood and now I am just to the really pissed off point. I have shit to do this week and I do NOT have time for this. I love my Dr too. Direct from his office, with my history unless I am in acute pain bad enough for the ER or I start running a fever I just need to wait and see what happens. The kidney stone is only 1/4 of an inch so it is small enough to pass without surgery so they totally leave you hanging. I am flying to Orlando on Friday for 10 days for work and then a couple of days of fun, so cross your fingers and think good thoughts

Feeling semi human

2007-09-29T22:08:38Z

Being sick sucks. I am feeling a little better today, and I actually left the house today for the first time in 4 days. Considering I had run out of food, it was a necessity. It felt good to be outside, but I had to take a nap to get over it. Hopefully the antibiotics will work!

I am not as sweet as I look

2007-09-27T01:07:33Z

So I am a little cranky today. I have a bad cold and that always leaves me cranky. To top it all off, today one of my vendors tried to totally screw me.

The question is why do people (who obviously never met me in person) think that I am a passive weakling? Is it my adorable southern drawl? Is it because I am female? Or maybe because I sound like a twelve year old on the phone?

Some of my coworkers prefer to use the broadsword method when it comes to dealing with people. Me, I prefer the stiletto. I was very nice today and I never even raised my voice, I think that is what throws them off even more. People never even know they are bleeding to the end and they realize that everything has gone horrible wrong and they have been eviscerated.

When it was all over my assistant pops her head up and says "remind me to never piss you off"!

Homesick

2007-09-22T04:55:08Z

Please don't get me wrong, I love my new job and I really like watching the munchkin grow up, but some times I am so homesick for Atlanta I have to wonder if I made the right decision.

The funny part, I am from NC originally, just not this part of the state.

I may have to visit for a long weekend soon.

FUCK

2007-09-09T01:46:56Z

Fuck, Fuck, Fuck. I canNOT believe that we just lost to South Carolina. I cannot tell you how much I hate Steve Spurrier. I am Mark Richt biggest fan, but I do not like that he has turned over play calling to Mike Bobo. Bobo was only a mediocre quarterback when I was in school and NEVER managed to beat Spurrier when he was a player so I am not sure what made Richt think that Bobo could call the plays to beat him. Fuck.

Dog abuse

2007-08-20T23:44:35Z

If your dog weighs more than 5 pounds, please don't put a shirt on it. Hell, even if it weighs less than 5 pounds, DO NOT PUT CLOTHING ON A DOG. I came home this evening and one of my neighbors was walking a rottweiler with a shirt on. The poor dog looked at me with pleading in his eyes. He was mortified that he had a shirt on! Forget the fact that it was 96 degrees and I know the poor thing had to be hot!

19 days to football season

2007-08-14T01:55:35Z

I can't tell you how happy that makes me. My family is convinced that babies must have been traded at the hospital because no one in my family is really a football fan or even a sports fan for that moment. Then there is me. I love college football. There is no better season than fall in the south. Now the challenge is to see if I can make time in my schedule to get to Athens this fall for a game. I am hoping that I can find time to make it to the Kentucky game in Nov.

1 month to camp

2007-08-13T01:28:45Z

I can't wait to go back to camp in a month. 5 whole days of complete debauchery!

After 3 days with a 2 year old, I need a month at camp. How do people have multiple kids? Are they so sleep deprived that they realize what they are doing?

The Best of Craigslist

2007-08-09T00:41:29Z

This may be old news but someone sent this to me today and I laughed my ass off

To the Doms of DC - w4m

Reply to:
Date: 2007-05-12, 10:06PM

Gentlemen,
In the nine months I have lived in DC I have met and corresponded with a number of you, and frankly I am a little disappointed with the men in this area who call themselves Doms. I find it hard to believe that in a city based on the power of politics that at least a few of you can’t step up to the plate and get the whole BDSM thing right. Since you all seem to be having a difficult time with this I thought I would give you a few guidelines to make your search for your own submissive princess more successful. I am only giving you this input out of love, no one wants to see you succeed more than I do dear, so please read carefully.

#1) A submissive is not a doormat. Don’t expect me to do whatever you say when we are not in the bedroom. No I won’t clean up your apartment, no I won’t wake up at three am to fuck you, and no I will not leave work early because you can’t just jack off like everyone else does. Listen, I am totally turned on when you order me around in the bedroom, it’s totally hot. However, it is annoying in my vanilla life, I am just as busy as you are, so lay off. If I wanted that kind of subservience I would move to Saudi Arabia.

#2) Sending me an email saying you’re a Dom, doesn’t make you my Master. Seriously, if I sent you an email claiming I was a cardiologist would you let me give you an angioplasty? I am just as protective of my snatch as you are of heart. When I get an email from you immediately giving me an order to take down my ad, send you a nude picture, etc, I show it to my roommate and we laugh at what an asshole you are. My lack of reply should be an indication to you of how well this strategy works. It’s even better when you send me a second even more demanding email. Christ dumb ass, it’s not working, try something else. Try slowing down, would it really kill you to have a cup of coffee to get to know me a little first.

#3) No, your friend cannot watch or join us. I don’t know your friend, and I don’t want to fuck him.

#4) NSA means NSA. I am not looking for a husband. If I were I would be married by now. If I meet you on Casual Encounters, it probably means I am not going to move in with you. Again, I have a life too. Having said that, if you would like to see me again, just ask. I might say yes if the sex was fun. Don’t send me creepy emails asking how I’m doing and don’t drive by my house seeing if I’m home. This kind of behavior makes me think I should call the sheriff to see if your address has been updated in the offender registry. Oh, and Brian, stop sending me text messages. You were a lousy lay, and you cell phone has a virus, which fucks up my phone every time you send me one of your inane messages. Go the fuck away.

#5) Don’t expect me to suck your cock without any reciprocation. No fun for my pussy means no second date for you, period. Submissives like oral sex too. Don’t get me wrong, I love sucking cock, but it is not enough to keep me interested in you for more than twenty minutes. Additionally, if I have sucked your cock for half an hour and you still refuse to cum I am throwing you out of my apartment. I don’t care if you still have a raging boner, my gay neighbor will get to enjoy watching you struggle to unlock your car with a hard on.

#6) Seriously, your friend cannot watch.

#7) Yes, we have to meet in public the first time. Also, no I won’t come to your apartment, never having met you and put on a blindfold without seeing you first. I also will not get into your car with you and let you drive me some place I’ve never been before. Safety clown says those are bad ideas. I like being tied up and fucked. I do not like being tied up, fucked, injected with drain cleaner, and strangled. I don’t know you, and you haven’t gained my trust. And yes, I want your real name, address, and phone number. I will give it to my roommate so he can check up on me if I don’t come home in time. This is common sense, and if you are a real Dom you will always put our safety first. If you don’t want to tell me your name you are hiding something and I don’t want to deal with you.

#8) Married guys, get fucking lost. Cheating on your wife leads me to believe you are a despicable piece of shit, don’t email me. Put a little effort into your marriage or get divorced asshat.

#9) Under no circumstances will I do the We/we, D/s bullshit while we IM. I/it I/is I/inane.

#10) Enough pictures of your cocks already! Again, I just show these to my roommate for our amusement (and he’s a queer). Bonus points to all you gentlemen who send me a penis pic when you have a really small cock. Sometimes honesty is not the best policy.

#11) Again, your friend cannot watch. Who is that guy anyway? Wasn’t he in Deliverance?

#12) You may not call me bitch, slut, or whore outside the bedroom. If you do, don’t be surprised if I go nuclear on your ass. I have a name, use it. If not I might be forced to refer to you as daddy in public.

#13) If you don’t respect and like women, don’t email me. If you hate women and want a blowjob, I can hook you up with my gay roommate.

#14) If I spend two hours getting ready for our playdate I expect you to put a little effort in to getting ready as well. At least shower, no one likes that musty ball smell.

Listen, I am a nice, smart woman who just happens to like a little spanking and bondage. I am sure most of you are nice men who like the same things. I’m sure we can work this out. Post these guidelines by your computer before you answer the next ad and I’m sure it will work out for you. Happy hunting you naughty bastard.

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I'm home!

2007-08-02T01:58:12Z

Montreal rocks! I had a blast and I would love to go back some time on vacation. I will however be taking the month of August off of all alcohol since I hit my 6 month comsumption limit in 4 days while I was there. This way I will be good and ready to go to camp again in September!

Party like a rock star!

2007-07-29T21:25:06Z

I have to say that I adore Montreal. It is an amazing city! Last night was the opening night reception sponsored by the city of Montreal, and do they know how to throw a party. After that we were whisked away to the party for Starwood hotels (Westin, W and Sheraton for those not in this industry). We took over the W Montreal and had a party. They should really thank me for getting the party started though. Evidently, after 4 cosmos, I will get out on the dance floor even if I am the only person. Don't worry that didn't last long and soon there was over 100 and the place was booming. It was great. I have parties to hit for 3 more hotel chains tonight, 2 tomorrow and then the closing night reception on Tuesday night. I may need rehab by the time that this is over, but I will have lots of great memories! I will come back some time for a proper vacation here, it is amazing!

My passport came!!!

2007-07-27T00:45:48Z

Woohoo, now I can leave the country on Saturday!

The fastest plane ride ever with Harry - Don't worry, no spoilers

2007-07-22T21:56:14Z

I bought Harry Potter as I entered LAX yesterday morning and I have to say it was the fast plane ride ever. Normally, when flying home from the west coast, I feel like it takes 10 years, but yesterday, I couldn't believe it wen the plane landed, it had gone so fast. Of course as soon as we boarded the plane the man next to me wanted to talk, but as soon as he saw what I was reading, he totally just let me read. So nice! Once everyone has read it, I would love to talk about it. As I read it, I was dying to know how it ended, but I was also a little sad that it was all going to end.

1 day down, 2 to go

2007-07-19T03:11:05Z

Well the first day of the conference is done. Registration was totally fucked up since the system has been down for three weeks, but we managed. My assistant came out to this conference with me to learn what it is all about, and she is about to annoy me to death. Was I that obnoxious at 23??? She knows everything, and will not take any advice, pointers etc when I give her a task to do. We have come to the point now where I let her to do it her way, and then make her correct it to my specifications. At one point before we came she was telling another coworker that people need to learn to respect her invisible crown, that she is the princess. I hate to break it to her, that if she is the princess, then I am the queen bee! I realize that I am a perfectionist, but I really do have a lot to teach her if she was willing to let me.

Greetings from LA

2007-07-17T03:49:14Z

I am in Los Angeles all week at a conference and my assistant has actually come on site with me to see what actually happens once I leave the office. She is so funny. This is her first job, so this is her first business trip, so is so funny. She keeps whipping out her camera and taking a picture of everything. She even took a picture of her sushi plate tonight at dinner. I keep trying to remember what it felt like to experience all this the first time. I can't wait to see her tomorrow when the real butt kissing begins from the hotel staff here.

I am over the butt kissing though. Eight years ago when I first started doing this, I loved the fact that everyone in the hotel would know my name and would go out of their way to do whatever I wanted. Now, I just want them to leave me alone, do everything I asked on the meeting spec that I sent over and leave me in peace.

I am totally fucked.

2007-07-14T02:41:14Z

That was my pep talk from my coworker at work today before I left. I told him that he really should go into motivational speaking, his pep talk really helped. I am leaving Sunday morning for Los Angeles for a week for a conference and the registration system is still down, so I have no current registration data still. I am now 2 1/2 weeks without . a total count. I had to guess today when I had to call in the counts for lunch next week. I am going with 650, hopefully I won't have many more than that show up. It could get really interesting. I am sure I will have nightmares about a 1000 people showing up. Wish me luck!

Oh btw, I found out that the manager of the conference content department has a hilarious imitation of me when I was on the phone with the jackasses downstairs and they asked me why we didn't have a transfer of knowledge when the registration manager left. Since I am still very bitter about him getting fired, I may have lost my temper for just a minute. He even has a drawl when he does it. I am happy I am at a point in my life where I don't mind laughing at myself.