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  <title>Ta mo bhriste tri thine.</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Diary16_02_10.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/Diary16_02_10.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel kind of bad about posting this one. Some people actually have &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; problems. But you know what? It&apos;s my diary and you&apos;re supposed to write your innermost feelings in a diary. Never mind the fact that I&apos;m publishing mine online. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why can&apos;t it be summer already?</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:04:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I hate Valentine&apos;s Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People who have friends or a special someone shouldn&apos;t need a specific day to appreciate them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For people who have no one, Valentine&apos;s Day is a painful reminder of what they don&apos;t have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, there&apos;s sickening amounts of pink and glitter and hearts everywhere, and somehow you&apos;re a bad person if you don&apos;t want to celebrate Valentine&apos;s Day in some manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So instead, I will celebrate the much better holiday of Laskiainen, where there&apos;s tobogganing and (preferably) home-made buns filled with cream and jam. Or almond paste but not for me because yuck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Laskiainen, everyone!</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:59:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;m actually reading het fanfic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;d think it&apos;d feel weird, after all those years of slash fics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it&apos;s Sheldon/Penny so it&apos;s okay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my period started two weeks too early and that made me scared and overly emotional. But the people at the university health care said it&apos;s probably nothing. All I can say is that having periods twice a month is so not cool. I&apos;m already a very emotional person as it is, and especially so during That Time of the Month. I pretty much get all &quot;nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I guess I&apos;ll go eat worms&quot; and so on :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&apos;cutid1-end&apos;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve also been very unmotivated. I think it might have been because my proseminar class (where we write a 20-page essay that&apos;s part of our BA) was postponed and postponed. But today we had our first meeting this Spring and that cheered me up. The next meeting is going to be in March, though, and that means I&apos;ll just have to try to keep the motivation I got from that one class so I&apos;ll be able to actually write the essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want pizza.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>How can you wake up and nothing&apos;s out of the ordinary, attend very interesting Shakespeare course and not so interesting grammar lesson, and all&apos;s good... and then you get a bit scared that there might be something wrong with you (but probably isn&apos;t) and the rest of the day you&apos;ll feel crappy and cry at the smallest things and wish it was early enough to go to bed at 7 pm?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damn it. I suck.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:40:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>La! Kind of art :P</title>
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  <description>So I felt like drawing for the first time in a while, if you don&apos;t count the comic diaries, and drew a Night Elf woman in a skimpy outfit :P Inspired largely by World of Warcraft. I played the trial version for a while and was kind of impressed. I decided to play the trial to see what all the fuss was about, and the game was way better than I expected. Sure, there were the same jerks every MMORPG has, but the game scenery was beautiful and the storylines intriguing, and the competition between the two sides, the Alliance and the Horde, made the game more difficult.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, my the favourite character race + class was a Night Elf druid. Druids are so cool because they can transform into different animals, like cheetah and bears :D And I like the elves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Blaaelf.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Blaaelf.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried colouring the picture with Copic markers but that didn&apos;t turn out that great, so this pic will stay only as lineart for now :) I&apos;m just happy that I started drawing again.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:25:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Diary entry every week my arse :P Also, sorry for not replying to the comments to my entries, it&apos;s been a kind of meh time. But yay, another entry *crickets chirp* Started during boring class and kind of finished in my flat :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Diary09_02.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/Diary09_02.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:56:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Arrrrrrrgh money issuesssss. When will I be able to actually own substantial amounts of money? Will I get a good enough a job when I have my BA? Will I get a job at all? Will it let me travel between Finland and Canada? How the hell can other people afford houses and cars and everything like that? Owning things like that seems like nothing that&apos;ll ever happen to me :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why didn&apos;t I choose to start studying for a profession that, I don&apos;t know, actually pays well? Honestly, if I ever have kids, I will tell them that while universities seem to be all the rage and everything, for god&apos;s sake, study for a real profession! Something people are actually looking workers for. Sure, translation is a profession too but it hardly pays large sums of money (unless you&apos;re a translator/interpretor for the EU, which I will never be because 1) I&apos;m not smart enough and 2) I couldn&apos;t handle it). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I am, wasting my time writing essays about Shakespeare and attending lectures about the structure of Finnish, while other people are earning money. They might be only like hairdressers or cleaners, but money is money, and that&apos;s what our world is quite extensively built on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if they have any part-time jobs in Joensuu...</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:24:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Diary2401a.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/Diary2401a.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it sucks :/ But at least I did draw it.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:18:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Today was Gran&apos;s funeral. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, I wasn&apos;t at my freshest, but I don&apos;t really care. I now know that there&apos;s not much point in putting on any make-up when going to a funeral. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of summers ago, when we were at our summer cottage, Gran started telling me and my second oldest cousin of her life. That was the first time I ever heard her telling of her past, and I don&apos;t think I had ever heard so much of any of family members. I guess she knew that she wouldn&apos;t be with us for much longer. Mom was smart and wrote down as much of that as she could, and I appreciate both Gran telling me all that and Mom writing it down. My Gran was my favourite relative, after my Mom, and what she told only made me appreciate her more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was the oldest child in her family. Three of her siblings died when they were between the ages 2-6, all at the same time. The details are unclear to me, but they had eaten something that ended up killing them. My Gran was 9 at that time. She was left with two sisters and a brother. The sisters are still alive, both of which I only heard 1-2 years ago for the first time. Gran or her family couldn&apos;t afford education, but she was a survivor. She had her first child, my Aunt, at the age of 21, to a man who she loved but who did not want to have anything to do with a child. My Aunt was the sole reminder of him to Gran. Being a single mother in 1950s was not an easy thing to do, but soon enough, Gran found the man who was to be my grandfather. With him, she had a son, my Uncle, and a daughter, my Mom. My grandfather, however, was an abusive, selfish drunkard, who made my poor Gran and her children full of terror (spunky though she was). She had two jobs in order to support her family. It only started getting easier for them when the children started growing up, and the day my Mom became of age, my Gran divorced her husband. Eventually she moved to Tampere where she lived for the rest of her life, and when she became too tired and worn for work, she dedicated herself to taking care of her grandchildren. I remember how Gran was always there when we came back from daycare or elementary school, making sure we ate well dressed warmly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am ashamed to say that a couple of times, when I was small, I argued with her and said bad things to her. Back then, I did not understand how great a person she was. But I did love her, and I want to believe she knew that too. I&apos;ve always felt closer to my Mom&apos;s side of the family, and especially to Mom and Gran. There is no one in the world quite like my Gran, and there will never be. There will be similar people, on surface, but they won&apos;t hold the same importance as she did to me. I just hope she knew that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Completely unrelated to the previous text, I doodled stuff:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Hood1.png&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Hood1.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:15:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:50:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Memey</title>
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  <description>Augh, I&apos;m a bad person and have totally neglected the comic diary that I started last week and no one probably remembers anyway :P Er. I&apos;ll do that tomorrow. FOR THE TIME BEING, here&apos;s a music meme that I totally stole from &lt;span  class=&quot;ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-deleted  i-ljuser-type-P     &quot;  data-ljuser=&quot;draykonis&quot; lj:user=&quot;draykonis&quot; &gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://draykonis.livejournal.com/profile/&quot;  target=&quot;_self&quot;  class=&quot;i-ljuser-profile&quot; &gt;&lt;img  class=&quot;i-ljuser-userhead&quot;  src=&quot;https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://draykonis.livejournal.com/&quot; class=&quot;i-ljuser-username&quot;   target=&quot;_self&quot;   &gt;&lt;b&gt;draykonis&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)&lt;br /&gt;2. Put it on shuffle&lt;br /&gt;3. Press play&lt;br /&gt;4. For every question, type the song that&apos;s playing&lt;br /&gt;5. When you go to a new question, press the next button&lt;br /&gt;6. Don&apos;t lie and try to pretend you&apos;re cool...&lt;br /&gt;7. When you&apos;re finished tag some other people to do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we Go:&lt;br /&gt;IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening Credits:&lt;br /&gt;RU Ready - Salt-N-Pepa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waking Up:&lt;br /&gt;Stompin&apos; at the Savoy - Benny Goodman &amp; His Orchestra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Day of School:&lt;br /&gt;Oxford Town - Bob Dylan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falling in Love:&lt;br /&gt;Saskatchewan - Red Box (get it? Cuz I&apos;m in love with a Canadian :B)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Song:&lt;br /&gt;Indian Reservation - Don Fardon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fight Song:&lt;br /&gt;Freedom Come, Freedom Go - Fortunes (Ahaha whut)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breaking Up:&lt;br /&gt;Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prom:&lt;br /&gt;Final Fantasy 6 Phantom Midnight OC ReMix - someone at OC Remix (that&apos;s a pretty angsty prom)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life:&lt;br /&gt;Wild Places - Duncan Browne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mental Breakdown:&lt;br /&gt;December 1963 (What A Night) - Jersey Boys (uh...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Driving:&lt;br /&gt;Scatterheart - Björk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flashback&lt;br /&gt;Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting Back Together:&lt;br /&gt;Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wedding:&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m On A Boat - The Lonely Island (that&apos;s some mothafikkin&apos; weddin&apos;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birth of Child:&lt;br /&gt;Surgery - Jack Off Jill (...ew)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Final Battle:&lt;br /&gt;As the World Falls Down - David Bowie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Death Scene:&lt;br /&gt;Feuer Frei! - Rammstein (gonna go with a bang :P)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funeral Song:&lt;br /&gt;The Chocolate Factory - Macabre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End Credits:&lt;br /&gt;Parlay - Hans Zimmer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloopers:&lt;br /&gt;Black Hole Sun - Steve &amp; Eydie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in conclusion, I have a pretty inconsistent soundtrack. Goodie.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:32:07 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been making many decisions (but they&apos;re still not resolutions!) this January. I decided to start the book reading task, and I&apos;m also considering on starting looking for new recipes and cook one new dish every week. Don&apos;t know how well that&apos;s going to go, considering my budget and the limited amount of ingredients in Joensuu. But I&apos;ll try.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also might start drawing a comic diary. Not every day, but like... once a week or so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was drawn 7 January when I and Carmen went shopping downtown Toronto. That&apos;s not the whole day or the whole shopping trip, but I didn&apos;t feel like finishing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Diary0110.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/Diary0110.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, the black book is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Colors-Menena-Cottin/dp/0888998732&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Very, very cool :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following is a whiny and grumpy entry from... the day before yesterday and yesterday. Mostly yesterday. I think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Diary0110-02.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Diary/Diary0110-02.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feeling a bit less grumpy now.&lt;br /&gt;Edit: Lol, I was meant to write in the paper &quot;5 different people want to check your &lt;b&gt;pass&lt;/b&gt;port. Hello, i cnat wriet.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:30:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Books!</title>
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  <description>Back in Finland now. The trip was long and I hate Frankfurt now. Next time, I&apos;ll make sure to fly through Heathrow :P I miss Canada, Carmen and cats. Shall go back there when I&apos;m done with school in spring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway. Books! I bought lots of books in Canada. Also, I got a new scanner for Christmas. Therefore, a scanning party + book entry now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (for class and hard to find).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (for class).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0001.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0001.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (for class).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0002.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0002.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Ouoku (or something) vol. 1 by Yoshinaga Fumi (a very fascinating manga on AU Edo period Japan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0003.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0003.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Ouoku vol. 2 by Yoshinaga Fumi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0004.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0004.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. French Milk by Lucy Knisley (hello, internets :D)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0005.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0005.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. The Demon&apos;s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan (been waiting for the opportunity to buy this for ages :B)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/?action=view&amp;amp;current=titus_0006.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Scans/titus_0006.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far I&apos;ve only finished the Ouoku manga and French Milk and read a bit of Romeo and Juliet and The Demon&apos;s Lexicon. I loved French Milk, like I love the writer&apos;s drawings on her LJ :) It&apos;s so strange seeing the people whose work you know from the internet publishing actual books, but that fills me with hope. Maybe I can do that too, some day. When and if, you know, I start writing. I&apos;ve wanted to write/draw a children&apos;s book for some time now. I also loved the manga. It was very interesting and intriguing, and I love Yoshinaga Fumi&apos;s simple and yet elaborate drawing style. She also makes her characters very much alive, none of that Magical Girl Pom Pom crap :P</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:41:50 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>So, yeah. I&apos;m doing better now. It feels like the last couple of weeks of December lasted a couple of months, at least. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m visiting Carmen and her family in Canada right now, and will be here for another week. It was quite an ordeal to get here and I ended up being stuck overnight at Frankfurt airport, but in the end, I made it here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carmen will have the next week off from work, which will be great. I don&apos;t know what&apos;s on our schedule, but there will be tobogganing, at least. She&apos;s at work now, poor thing. I just helped stripping the house of the Christmas ornaments and after lunch I&apos;ll go see if there&apos;s anything nice and inexpensive at Old Navy. I figured I might as well shop for clothes here since it&apos;s much cheaper. I&apos;m also planning on raiding Bulk Barn before I need to go back to Europe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of days ago we went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie and it was -awesome-. The most kick-ass Sherlock Holmes thing I&apos;ve ever seen, and the soundtrack is made of win. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But lunch now. I might or might not make more updates later.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>my gran&apos;s in hospital and will probably die soon&lt;br /&gt;i&apos;ve cried too much this winter, you&apos;d think i didn&apos;t have tears left.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:18:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Augh. Why does Finnish grammar have to be so insane?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nominatiivi: Kissa = Cat (Se on kissa = It is a cat)&lt;br /&gt;Genetiivi: Kissan = Cat&apos;s &lt;br /&gt;Partitiivi: Kissaa = Cat (En nähnyt kissaa = I didn&apos;t see a cat)&lt;br /&gt;Essiivi: Kissana = As a cat &lt;br /&gt;Translatiivi: Kissaksi = Into a cat (Se muuttui kissaksi = It turned into a cat)&lt;br /&gt;Inessiivi: Kissassa = In/inside a cat (Se on kissassa = It&apos;s inside a cat)&lt;br /&gt;Elatiivi: Kissasta = From a cat (inside)&lt;br /&gt;Illatiivi: Kissaan = Inside/into/in a cat (Se meni kissaan = It went inside a cat)&lt;br /&gt;Adessiivi: Kissalla = On a cat, [something] that cat has&lt;br /&gt;Ablatiivi: Kissalta = From a cat (on top)&lt;br /&gt;Allatiivi: Kissalle = To a cat&lt;br /&gt;Abessiivi: Kissatta = Without a cat&lt;br /&gt;Instruktiivi: Kissoin = With cats (Doing something with cats, with the aid of cats)&lt;br /&gt;Komitatiivi: Kissoineen = With his/her/it&apos;s cats&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I probably made many errors and I have to learn all of this, like most people in Finland, and I&apos;ve always been very bad with those kind of things :/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though I&apos;ve heard that they have more word forms like that in Estonian and Hungarian, both of which are, surprise surprise, in the same language family as Finnish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But wait! There&apos;s moar! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hukkua = Drown&lt;br /&gt;Hukkunet = You might drown&lt;br /&gt;Hukkumaisillaan = About to drown&lt;br /&gt;Hukkuessaan = While drowning&lt;br /&gt;Hukkuneina = As persons who have drown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All I&apos;m saying is that am I ever so happy that I don&apos;t have to learn a Finno-Ugric language as a foreign language. Also, screw my grammar exam.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Since it&apos;s been a while since my last non-angsty lj entry, I thought I might as well give a short update about what&apos;s happening in Petra town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m really rather busy with my studies now, and quite often stressed out. My main concerns are two translation courses (one in English-Finnish and one in Finnish-English), and my Proseminar course. I don&apos;t know if the universities in other countries do this kind of thing, but here in Finland the university students have to write a thesis of about 20 pages or more as part of their Bachelor&apos;s Degree. Usually this happens on the third year, but in my case it is happening now, technically on my fifth year, because I changed my major subject when I had been in the university for two years. But I have no regrets, and I&apos;m happy I changed my major. I feel that my employment possibilities are far better now than when I was studying English Language instead of English Translation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I am most interested in right now is my proseminar thesis, also known as &quot;kandi&quot;. We get to pick the subjects for the theses ourselves, as long as they have something to do with translation studies and/or linguistics. My subject is &quot;Translating the Lesbian Language from English to Finnish in Alison Bechdel&apos;s Comic &lt;i&gt;Dykes to Watch Out For&lt;/i&gt;&quot;. I&apos;m rather excited, more excited than on any other school-related thing right now. What makes it especially interesting is that, to my knowledge, there is no previous study conducted on Finnish lesbian language, and my English sources constantly disagree with each other :D If I ever get around to writing my Master&apos;s Thesis, I&apos;m so going to be writing about a similar subject. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heh. You know, this entire lj entry is complete and utter procrastination. I should be editing my Finnish-English translation on beer + tourist brochures. Oh well, I&apos;m allowed a break to, er, train my critical eye. Yes. As long as I get most of the editing done today, hopefully during the next half an hour or so. The deadline of the translation is tomorrow at noon, and I don&apos;t know how much work I can get done in the evening because the English and English translation students are going to have a pre-Christmas party, or &lt;i&gt;pikkujoulut&lt;/i&gt;. A traditional (Finnish?) party that&apos;s pretty much an excuse to get wasted and make an arse of yourself, but I&apos;ve discovered an absolutist can enjoy them too :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I suppose I should go back to my translation now and not ramble about my &quot;student career&quot; on the lj :P I can&apos;t promise any constant updates but it&apos;s not like everyone&apos;s holding their breath waiting for my journal entries :D Ta tah.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:27:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>STRESS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stress and I couldn&apos;t give a damn about anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, I&apos;ll take my laptop to the campus, hoping that I&apos;ll get something done. Will probably skip a writing class because it&apos;s not important and I have three deadlines to meet next week and they&apos;re sort of big-ish deadlines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God. Why do I have so little energy now that I have so much stuff to do?</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:44:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I don&apos;t know if it&apos;s the darkness or frustration or the tiredness or the thoughts that you know you&apos;ll never tell anyone (except maybe under hypnosis or torture, but right now neither of those seem very likely), but sometimes you just don&apos;t feel that you could bother with anything, really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that doesn&apos;t matter because no matter what you feel like doesn&apos;t matter because work and other things need to be done, damn it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And no, I won&apos;t say I&apos;m sorry for feeling emo sometimes. Sometimes I feel like I&apos;m apologizing for too many things, even if I shouldn&apos;t be doing that. Sometimes, you just need to post your feelings somewhere because otherwise they would just rot inside you for too long a time and make you feel miserable. I have the right to feel bad every now and then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever. To the shower now.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:59:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Pumpkins SCREAM in the dead of night :D</title>
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  <description>Oh my. We had a &lt;i&gt;magnificent&lt;/i&gt; Halloween party with other language and translation students yesterday. There was a little less people there than before but the villa where the party is always held was still full of people in most interesting outfits and the overall volume got eventually very high :P I swear my ears were ringing a bit when I left around midnight (a bit early maybe, but we did start around 7-8 pm).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the costumes were just &lt;i&gt;awesome&lt;/i&gt; :D I&apos;m not posting pics of other people now, though I might later on under a friends lock. But there was a very convincing red devil, Jesus, male Maleficent, a guestbook, the Crow, Rincewind, Harry Potter, a witch burning victim, rabid werewolf, Duff Man, bar wench and all sorts of other things :D &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My webcam doesn&apos;t do my make-up any justice :/ It was way better, all smudgy and pale and my lips looked chapped and stained with someone else&apos;s blood :P But, a word of advice: even if you&apos;re going as a zombie, think twice before painting you hands and arms with watercolours. It makes going to the bathroom needlessly difficult because the colours will run when you wash your hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Photo67.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Photo67.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; fetchpriority=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here&apos;s the very tired me after I got home :) The make-up looks way better now, and the rabid werewolf gave me one of her fake blood capsules :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Photo69.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/noirenails/Photo69.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&apos;cutid1-end&apos;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And today there&apos;s going to be a pub quiz in the evening :D</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:19:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Would anyone like to come to my house and cook me fried fish and mashed sweet potatoes and maybe corn?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could pay by drawings and translations.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:38:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>...what the hell, is that an actual art post?</title>
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  <description>Well, will you look at that? I drew and uploaded stuff for the first time in several months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=&apos;_blank&apos; href=&apos;http://cyllaniel.deviantart.com/art/Piu-Piu-Psssht-141127007&apos; rel=&apos;nofollow&apos;&gt;http://cyllaniel.deviantart.com/art/Piu-Piu-Psssht-141127007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just hadn&apos;t felt like uploading anything. Today was a boring evening. I was watching Dark Knight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I just discovered &quot;Reaper&quot; in on Finnish TV. After midnight, lol. Sure, it has the Devil but it&apos;s not like it&apos;s the most hardcore stuff TV has to offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got a package from Carmen&apos;s Mom today :) A late birthday present, made of awesome: rice crispie squares, cookies, candy, a coca cola bucket and a Canada T-shirt. I feel spoiled :) I gave Carmen&apos;s Mom a call and chatted for quite a bit, she&apos;s very nice to talk to and it was good to hear about goings-on.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:14:56 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Okay, this is really bothering me. It&apos;s such a trivial matter but I can&apos;t stop thinking about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember that some years ago, someone wrote... some fandom thing. It might have been a Harry Potter parody or something else, but I do remember that they used the Silence of the Lambs quote: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;It rubs the lotion on its skin.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I can&apos;t remember what the text was or who wrote it and it&apos;s driving me crazy D:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone have a magnificent photographic memory or something?</description>
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  <title>99 Books meme</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;- Bold the ones you’ve read&lt;br /&gt;- Italicize the ones you want to read&lt;br /&gt;- Leave unaltered the ones that you aren’t interested in or haven’t heard of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And away we go…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)&lt;br /&gt;3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (JRR Tolkien)&lt;br /&gt;6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)&lt;br /&gt;7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (JRR Tolkien)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)&lt;br /&gt;9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)&lt;br /&gt;10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (JK Rowling)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)&lt;br /&gt;18. The Stand (Stephen King)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling)&lt;br /&gt;20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)&lt;br /&gt;21. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)&lt;br /&gt;24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)&lt;br /&gt;25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)&lt;br /&gt;30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)&lt;br /&gt;31. Dune (Frank Herbert)&lt;br /&gt;32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)&lt;br /&gt;33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;34. 1984 (George Orwell)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)&lt;br /&gt;36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)&lt;br /&gt;37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)&lt;br /&gt;38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)&lt;br /&gt;39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)&lt;br /&gt;40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)&lt;br /&gt;41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)&lt;br /&gt;42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)&lt;br /&gt;43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;45. The Bible [not the whole Bible, no o_O]&lt;br /&gt;46. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)&lt;br /&gt;47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)&lt;br /&gt;48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)&lt;br /&gt;51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)&lt;br /&gt;52. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)&lt;br /&gt;53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)&lt;br /&gt;54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;55. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)&lt;br /&gt;59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)&lt;br /&gt;60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)&lt;br /&gt;63. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)&lt;br /&gt;67. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;68. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;69. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;70. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;71. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)&lt;br /&gt;72. Shogun (James Clavell)&lt;br /&gt;73. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)&lt;br /&gt;74. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)&lt;br /&gt;75. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)&lt;br /&gt;76. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)&lt;br /&gt;77. The World According to Garp (John Irving)&lt;br /&gt;78. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)&lt;br /&gt;79. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)&lt;br /&gt;80. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;81. Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;82. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)&lt;br /&gt;83. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)&lt;br /&gt;84. Emma (Jane Austen)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;85. Watership Down (Richard Adams)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;86. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)&lt;br /&gt;87. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)&lt;br /&gt;88. Blindness (Jose Saramago)&lt;br /&gt;89. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)&lt;br /&gt;90. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) [I started it. Does that count? I guess not :P]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;91. Lord of the Flies (Golding)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;92. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)&lt;br /&gt;93. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)&lt;br /&gt;94. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;95. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) &lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;96. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)&lt;br /&gt;97. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)&lt;br /&gt;98. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)&lt;br /&gt;99. Ulysses (James Joyce) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&apos;cutid1-end&apos;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really feel like cooking something vegetable-based, exotic, cheap and tasty. Possibly with avocado or peanut butter or curry. Mm.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:09 GMT</pubDate>
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