It’s easy being me Tuesday, Nov 10 2009 

… when you’ve got JP designing for you.

Details to follow, as soon as I’m on my lunch break…

Typing difficulties Monday, Aug 17 2009 

When you have a band-aid (Hello Kitty, of course) on the tip of your index finger on your right hand, it’s really difficult to a) type correctly, and b) use the touch pad on your laptop. Just thought I’d let you know.

Non-PC joke from Dad: Obama’s family moves to DC Thursday, Jan 22 2009 

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The Adapted 1001 Books Challenge List Tuesday, Jan 13 2009 

The partially complete adapted list of Peter Baxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

1700’s (total: 37 books)

  • A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
  • Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • Roxana by Daniel Defoe
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
  • Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
  • Pamela by Samuel Richardson
  • Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  • Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
  • Amelia by Henry Fielding
  • The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Julie; or, the New Eloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
  • Èmile; or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  • A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
  • The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
  • Humphry Clinker by Tobias George Smollett
  • The Sorrows of a Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Evelina by Fanny Burney
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Cecilia by Fanny Burney
  • The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
  • Vathek by William Beckford
  • Justine by Marquis de Sade
  • The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
  • Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Camilla by Fanny Burney
  • Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
  • The Nun by Denis Diderot

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