blargh...

Spectacularly little knitting going on lately. Between work and school I'm finding that I want any of my free time to go to sleeping instead of knitting, or you know, shaving my legs. I wholeheartedly want to cast on the mate for the sock I already knit, but I know I have such little time that I've been devoting what time I can to the holiday knitting I've already got on the needles. *Sigh*

I'm also wickedly ill. I came down with a cold Sunday night and managed to make it through work yesterday but today was a different story. Once I woke up and started moving around I got so incredibly nauseous I spent a good amount of time hugging the toilet. I feel bad about calling out of a job that I just started working at about a month ago, but what can you do? I didn't think vomiting over all the books in the store would be a good career move. Plus the thought of driving to work while dizzy and sweating didn't sound like a fun experience.

So I'm here, in one of my semi-lucid moments (thanks Dayquil! And mom, who brought tissues and chicken soup to a girl in need!) drinking tea and trying to not feel so guilty for being sick. Ironic, isn't it, since I didn't exactly have a say in the matter...

Alliance Ghost Hunters

Okay, get over your shock at having two posts in one day. This is important enough to warrant it:

http://www.southbergenite.com/NC/0/1719.html

It's an article on my brother's most recent investigation into the paranormal. He's the founder and lead investigator of Alliance Ghost Hunters (of which I'm an occasional investigator-in-training). It's an awesome article with an awesome slideshow to boot. Check it out. And if you're looking for someone to investigate some paranormal schtuff happening in the tri-state area, check out his website:

http://www.allianceghosthunters.com/


And it's pro bono, so there's nothing to worry about on your part.

Do you forgive me?

I'm so sorry for not updating regularly. I started a new job and went back to school and I consider it a good day if I have time to run to the bathroom and not have to jump right back up halfway through. I was having trouble sleeping there for awhile, but being exhausted from work and travelling and mentally exhausted from class has solved that problem quite quickly. I don't have any new pictures, but take that photo of me in the upper left hand corner of the page: picture the hair mussed, some light bags under the eyes, and an eyebrows badly in need of some maintenance. Then you've got me at 10:43 this morning :)

In honor of being gone for awhile, I thought I'd take a few minutes to fill out this meme that's been making its way around the blog-world; I'm such a big reader it'll be interesting to see how I do:

What we have here is 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. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.

(I'm going to add a category where I tell you i actually own it and will, someday, read it)

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

Hm. according to this list, I haven't really read as much as I'd like. but i've read so much more that isn't included on this list i have a hard time feeling bad about that. all right, must go eat and get ready for work...