#94 Update - Keep My Room Clean for a Month

I'm pathetic. After only 16 days, my room is a complete and total mess. There are fabric and sewing supplies everywhere, and my "craft bin" is spilling out all over the floor.

It looks like I'll be starting #94 from scratch again tomorrow.

#15 and #17 Animal Farm by George Orwell

I loved this book! I can definitely see why this book is popular to teach on the high school level. There's so much symbolism! Yes, I'm a sucker for symbolism; I can't help it.

In other words, have pity for my future English students. I already have lesson plans dancing around in my head...

hehehe.

#15 and #17 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

I've owned this book for years and have never been able to finish it. Finishing it didn't even change my opinion of the novel. It's not my style of book, and, because of that, I hated every minute of it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one book that I will not be teaching.

#21 Buy at Least 15 New CDs (1/15)

I couldn't help myself. When I was out with Megan tonight, I saw the new Shin's cd and decided to splurge. This is my first new cd since Christmas; I'm so excited!

#74 Donate all the Clothing That I Haven't Worn Since High School

Before I could unpack and put all of my clothing away that I brought home from school, I needed to make room in my dressers. (Yes. I said dressers.) So, I went ahead and bagged everything that I'm sending off to Goodwill.

I had a particularly hard time letting this one go:


Why, yes! That IS a Care Bear hoodie with ears.

#94 Keep My Room Clean for a Month

I spent the better part of the day cleaning my room at home. Seriously, I should probably clean it more than once a year. (I think that the dust bunnies under my dresser were breeding to take over the world.) I figured that it would probably be a good idea to start working on this goal early, and, considering I'm at home, this is going to be especially challenging. (I actually try at school.) This means in particular I have to:

1. actually keep my floor clean of clothing
2. avoid making big piles of books on the floor
3. keep my sewing box materials in my sewing box and not all over the floor


Basically, as long as I keep things off of my floor, I'm golden. Woohoo! Here's to hoping this month will be a successful one.

The Book List

Well, last night was my first night home for the summer, and it was an exciting one. Okay. So maybe for me it was. I don't expect anyone else to have the same nerdy standards. Anyway, I sat at home, ate Chinese, watched movies with Seth (I don't count this towards our brother/sister date.), and started to compile my book list. This is what I have so far:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
To The Lighthouse - Virgina Woolfe
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Ulysses - James Joyce
Sister Carrie - Evelyn Waugh
The Wapshot Chronicles - John Cheever
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House - Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
Mother Night - Vonnegut
Jailbird - Vonnegut
Player Piano - Vonnegut
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell

*Added*
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audery Niffenegger
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Middlesex: A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
1984 - George Orwell
The Illiad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aneid - Virgil
The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Herland - Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath - Paul Alexander
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (I've started it about 3 times now)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (Another one I've started but never finished)
Harry Potter (all of them!)
Utopia - Thomas More

It's a lot shorter than I wanted it to be, so any suggestions are appreciated!

In Progress Already

Well, with only a couple days before the official "start" of my 1001 days, I'm slightly nervous. I have no idea if I'll be able to complete this whole list. However, I did cheat some; I put things that I'm already in the process of completing.

#3. start a knitting club on campus:
I was just too lazy/busy to get it started. We already have most of the constitution written and an adviser picked out.

#96. have a Little Brother:
Right now I have a Little at the GCC colony.

#98. grow my hair out to below my shoulders:
Hehe. I've been working on this one since about March '06.

Before the first fateful haircut:

(June '05)

When it got ridiculously short:

(March '06)

I was also tempted to do #40 this weekend, but, alas, I'm broke. It wasn't an option.