Oedipus by Sophocles
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Othello by William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (x2)
World War Z by Max Brooks
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by M.S. Merwin
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Electra by Sophocles
Feminist Frontiers
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent

I made a running blog today! I want to blog about all the runs I have from today til my marathon in May. Because I really like reading about my runs and now I can talk about them all I want without boring all my friends!

But I figure other running friends/LJ friends might be a tad interested, so here you go: http://kristinerunning.blogspot.com :)

I finally got around to making this long, long post. There are 100+ pictures, so hold on to your seats. :P

( Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, airports, races, the townhouse........ )

I congratulate anyone who made it through that. <3

PS: This is only public so my parents can see my pictures and Facebookers without LJs can see it too because I need more than a 60 picture album to make this vacation come to life. :)

Atonement by Ian McEwan
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
Stiff by Mary Roach
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Ready? Okay! by Adam Cadre
Sundays with Vlad by Paul Bibeau
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
In the Woods by Tana French
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Likeness by Tana French
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Emma by Jane Austen

I just got back around 20 minutes ago from my run this morning. I ran 7 miles in 71 minutes and 23 seconds and didn't stop once the whole time. There were lots of hills and sunshine and my knee hurt for the middle 3-4 miles but I felt so good when I got done. :D

I've been drinking lots of water, no pop, and eating healthier lately. And I've been eating really well (not well, but way better than usual). It's affected my mood a lot: I'm much happier. When I went to therapy, we decided not to have another meeting until after school starts because the change in eating habits as well as my increase in exercise has basically made my anxiety go away. It's awesome. :)

Danielle and I took a bunch of fun pictures on my iChat the other day. I am going to post them because they are hilarious. Or pretty. It depends on the special effect. :P

( Shadows on an alley wall, dancing like a lovers' brawl... )

So I am looking for songs which have hand claps and snaps in them. I am making a cool playlist. Give me songs.

Currently I have:
Twisting : They Might be Giants
Rock N Roll Lies : Razorlight
The Sound of Settling : Death Cab for Cutie
Lust a Prima Vista : The Spill Canvas
When I Was a Young Girl : Feist
Under Pressure : Queen
We Will Rock You : Queen
Be my Husband : Damien Rice (sang by a girl, however)

-The Carmen

I just saw a pizza guy, right in front of my house, get pulled over by a cop, followed by another cop. Then the second cop left. It was the funniest thing I've seen in a while. But then the cop talked to the pizza guy for a while and I departed to update my LJ about it because I was bored.

Woo-hoo!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

And now since I've spammed your friends' page... click here!!!

Isn't that amazing?

I came home sick today because on Monday I ate some bad pasta sauce and on Tuesday I felt gross and threw up (in Danielle's toliet, because we were having a snow day partaaaay and trying on beautiful dresses for WPA which is March 1st) and today my stomach was still cramping and I felt an underlying sense of nausea.

So I came home, watched Beauty and the Beast but only made it halfway through before I fell asleep for the next four hours. It was terrific. And I feel much healthier now. Except, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast at about 6:00 AM so I haven't eaten in 12 hours. But I like the lack of pudgy-stomach... hmmphs. Anyway.

-The Carmen

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070104/480/vabri60101041808
^^^^ Now that's just weird.

Click Here

They are making a movie out of the book Tenderness?

That is so cool.

I read that book and it was nifty.

-The Carmen

If you buy a Threadless shirt, use this link:

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That way, I can get Street Team points and you can get spiffy clothes. It's a win-win situation.

HAPPY THANKS GIVING!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

-The Carmen

So here is my winter term schedule, for those of you that don't already know or what something to compare it to:

0 -- Chemistry (Bush)
1 -- Orchestra (Hall)
2 -- LA 10 (Goodmanson)
3 -- AP European History (White)
4 -- Journalism (Lindsay)
5 -- Algebra 2 (Johnson)
6 -- German 2 (Gaddie)

Yay!

-The Carmen

Hardly anyone does these for me anyway, but it is 3:36 AM and my digestive system is rebelling and I can't go back to sleep. Joy.

And Ctrl+W closes windows. I discovered this because I missed trying to do Ctrl+C.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating. no cheating, please!

01. "Times are strange, we got a free upgrade for..."
02. "Are you gonna live your life wondering..."
03. "A house on fire, a wall of stone..."
04. "In the distance she saw me coming 'round..."
05. "Your golden skies feed my role..."
06. "I just want to be safe in my own skin..."
07. "Where is the moment when we need it the most..."
08. "There was a time when I could breath my life in you..."
09. "It's only forever, not long at all..."
10. "It's funny how a man only thinks about the..."
11. "It’s been two years this month since the last time we spoke..."
12. "It's a good year for a murder..."
13. "Well, I got a friend who's a man..."
14. "Rachel left home last night..."
15. "You let me violate you..."
16. "Don't hold yourself life that..."
17. "The sun just slipped its note below my door..."
18. "Elevator! Going up!"
19. "You turn on a spindle..."
20. "Sappy pathetic little me..."

I am still bored and not tired (because I was awakened) so here's a ( BONUS ROUND )

In the 2nd half, two of the same artists are in a row. O.o My iPod is funny.

And I had to skip 10 songs (I'm at 50 on my shuffled songs, not 40) because some were from Dane Cook or Foamy or had no lyrics. XD

I am surprised I got mostly good songs I like. Because out of 2802 songs, what are the chances? :D

Anyway, DO IT! I am going to bed because my bowels aren't growling anymore. Yay!

-The Carmen

I am changing my email.

lamentphoenix@hotmail.com

lamentphoenix@hotmail.com

lamentphoenix@hotmail.com

lamentphoenix@hotmail.com

lamentphoenix@hotmail.com



Now that I've spammed your friends page...

I am using my Yahoo! account for signing up for stuff but changing my LJ comments to go to my MSN Hotmail. And if you want to send me a personal email (which I would appreciate greatly) send it to that one.

I feel sad... I've had my Yahoo! account for 2-3 years... but I just signed up for MSN with that same new email and activated my account and I dig the format. So I switched.

Auf Wiedersehen, Yahoo!

Guten Tag, Hotmail!

So, I totally just bought the new Hush Sound album today. I've played it all the way through five times. It's a short CD at about 36 minutes long but is really awesome.

( Like Vines review. )

-The Carmen

+No hotlinking!
+Comments
+Credit!

[5] Disney
[1] Elizabethtown
[1] Misc.

Again, no teasers. Sorry!

( Everybody wants to be a cat... )

-The Carmen

Additional icons can be found at lamenticons.

Go from this base: to this icon: in only a few simple steps!

Made in PS7, but probably easy to translate.

( On Topsy Turvy Day.... )

-The Carmen

+Comment
+Credit
+No Hotlinking

Textless icons are NOT bases!

[2] Disney
[6] Fashion

No teasers... I only have 8 icons, people! Just trust me, they're nice. :P

( Icons here! )

-The Carmen