I'm almost done here.
It's about time. I am getting hungry again. Something is wrong with me.
Lately I have had a huge craving for some good-old McDonald's. Maybe I should convince my lovely husband to stop by there on the way home. That sounds good.
We'll see.
Ciao.
I found that over at Muniviana posted by Mookie. I highlighted the ones I have read already. There are three books that I own, but have not read them, which reminds me.....
I like this list since I am always looking for new books to read so now I should be busy for a while after I am done with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
Ok, here is the list:
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontė, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontė, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (I read that one about three time. I have as many books too, one is in German though)
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies (That ones is sitting on my bookshelf)
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey (I have those ones)
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garcķa - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
You know when something is about to come up and it's ok when you're busy but when you just finished something really important and you feel like you have been working really hard and you look at the clock and you still have so much time. I hate that, because it makes you think you didn't really do anything.
But I don't want to complain. Today was a good day (is a good day). I got so much done without stressing out. I feel so much better than I did yesterday. I actually can't wait to get home and enjoy my evening.
Oh and the TV is still not where it's supposed to be. I guess FOUR(!!!!!) people will come over tomorrow morning and get that sucker up there. Stupid. Why do people need big TVs? I like the other one just fine. But then again, I know I'm inviting all kinds of comments about the necessity of big TVs here. Bring it on!
Was wir hier alles zu bekaempfen haben. Gar nicht lustig. Gar nicht.
For my English-speaking readers:
The cicadas are coming!!!!
Just got my Powerball tickets (I'm on a roll). Since I won $7 I figured I re-invest my winnings. A $10 Million jackpot wouldn't be bad either.
Ok, so I just realized I have a huge hole in my cardigan, right at the elbow. This sucks because I wear it at work all the time since it is so comfortably cool in here.
While I was wondering how I got a hole in my cardigan, resting my elbow on the desk I realized that this is why. Now, I really understand all those geeks with elbow pads on their jackets.
Well, it's time to go shopping!!!!!
I really do like the new statcounter. Especially now, that my Sitemeter has ran away, but the statcounter also lists the countries my visitors come from and after not even a month I am pretty surprised from where all those people are coming.
Just look at it:
The last one was from Poland. Now that they're in the EU and all.....
I slept so good last night. I feel so much better.
Let's hope this day will be more productive.
Felt like I worked twice as much today, but it is finally over. What a day. The worst Monday ever.
I'll be back.
Ciao.
That's what most of today's post have been, but I really was not able to put any thoughts together.
One funny thing though. Remember I said we'll get a new TV. Well, my husband went and got it and now he can't get it in the TV niche, or whatever the hell you call that opening above the fireplace. I fits but it weights a ton and so tomorrow he'll try it again with more help. I wish I could see that.
Other than that, I feel better but I am still very tired. I really don't want to go outside in the heat but if it takes me home, I'll endure it.
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To keep the trend of negative posts up for today, I figured I'd better complain again about how tired and without any energy I am today.
I was going to go outside and take care of some things but it is way too hot outside and that won't help me either.
I had also planned on staying a little longer today but I am starting to think that the opposite will take place. Usually I am all fine by this time when I have bad Mondays, but I don't think I'll get over this. I can't wait for my bed tonight. I hear it calling already.
Well, I seem to be doing not as bad as thought. I am still tired as hell, even after three cups of coffee, but I am getting hungry and we all know, if we can eat, we're doing fine.
That was a nice long sentence.
Did you ever hear the question, if you ever loved somebody so much that you could cry?
I just think that is the most wonderful way to describe the way you love somebody.
We are going to get a new TV today!!!!
While I would write an extended description here right now, I just don't have the energy right now.
I have absolutely o idea what is wrong but I don't seem to get over it.
Also, I got kind of depressed last night, thinking about my mom and how much I miss her. If I could I would just pack everything up and go back to Germany. It has been almost 5 years since I moved here. It must be so saddening to not have your child close to you. Weekly phone calls and e-mail don't really help. You can't really hug somebody over the Internet.
Sometimes life just sucks.
I am soooo tired. I wish I could just go back to bed.
I woke up at about 2:30 and it seems like two minutes later the alarm went off. I hate Mondays. Even though it is warm and nice and sunny outside it did not help me today.
And I'm grumpy.
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