The thing I’m curious about? Which questions did I *miss*?

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 83% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Test statistics:
- Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
- 100% had lower Beginner scores.
- 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
- 100% had lower Advanced scores.
- 100% had lower Expert scores.

The Commonly Confused Words Test.

(taken from cmw-brigid-5501

Meh. How to knock someone out for a full day and make them miss everything on Sunday– really bad Chinese food. I’m not sure if it was purring or not– per the song– but it’s definitely angry with me.

(sorry, Sisters– I was completely out for the count and barely able to get off the couch, let alone drive to Boston).

Apparently I wasn’t the only one affected by it, either. Meh.

In any case, due to the Chinese food, it wasn’t too productive of a weekend. I’ve knocked a couple things off my list so far. New webset is in the works for my website and journal. Did a ton of backstitching on my dragon this weekend (scans coming this week… probably Wednesday). Attempted and failed miserably to get the laundry done. That will continue tonight as we get yet another 10 inches or so of snow. Whee!

I wouldn’t mind the snow so much if the old stuff could melt off first. But it’s getting VERY disgusting out there. Erich commented this weekend that he can’t wait until the spring rains wash it all away. I’m seconding his assessment. The grimy roads come late February are tiresome. I honestly don’t mind the snow. It’s just the grime that comes with it.

April showers– come early. Please.

I received a phone call from my boss yesterday– but didn’t recognize the name immediately because she didn’t change her last name when she married. So for about a half-hour after the call (where she didn’t leave a message), I was trying to figure out WHY the caller ID name was so familiar. When I realized it was Linda, I immediately assumed that if it were something she needed me to call her back on, she would have left a message.

Turns out, as I found out today when I came in– Linda broke her wrist on Saturday. She went to the ER. They gave her painkillers, but she has to go to her doctor today to get a go-ahead for possible surgery on it (depending on whether it’s shattered or not, I guess). Either way, painkillers aren’t working. Hopefully she’ll be okay. The good thing is that it’s not her dominant hand. The bad thing is that many of us are wondering why the hell she would have gone rollerblading at the age fo 50, kids or no kids.

So, it looks to be a weird week. Hopefully productive. Hopefully a bit relaxing at times. But it’s going to be weird, regardless.

Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you’ve read part of.
Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of).
Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible (I’ve read it cover to cover five times in my life)
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (ugh.)
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (in French)
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (I want to read this completely… never have)
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith I know I’ve read part of this, can’t remember if I finished it…
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder I’m a girl who grew up in the 70′s in Montana. Duh.
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner I. Am. A. Fish.
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood What bothers me is how today’s society is starting to echo parts of this…
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein I think.
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I’ve come to realize that playing The Sims (in any form) is therapy. I get to run the lives of the poor sims and determine exactly which route they’re going to take.

Of course, every once in a while, I download a house or an object that has a crack attached. Last night, I discovered a rather amusing one had come into play… and one that brings a whole new level of sadistic player behavior to the world of the Sims.

Someone cracked the “teens can’t have sex” code and happened to attach it to a house download. My teen sims now have had sex. And unbeknownst to me, the computer randomized some things while I was focusing on another sim in the house… and the sim daughter got pregnant. The thing is that I didn’t KNOW she was pregnant, because unlike adult sim women, they don’t get the stereotyped maternity clothing or have growing tummies. On further inspection, though, they do waddle.

So what did I do? I made the teenager get married, of course. Her husband moved into the house, and we now have three generations living under one roof. And both mom and dad are days away from becoming adults.

Oh yeah– that’s allowed now, too. Teens can get engaged. And married.

But the teenagers are still going to school. And working their part-time evening jobs. And their parents don’t seem to mind this.

It’s very amusing. And entirely too perfect.

I can only imagine the insanity when the University expansion pack comes out next week.

*snerk*

I need to start showing screen shots.

Poor little Fizzy’s pissed off at me right now. I had to give her an emergency wipe-down bath around 9 a.m., and she’s HIGHLY offended at me.

Mind you– it’s her own damn fault. But of course, being that she is a cat and all, such details don’t matter. What matters is that I had the audacity to bring her into the bathroom and wipe through her fur with a soaking wet washcloth. And not just a spot cleaning. Oh, no– Every inch of her. Oh, the horror!

The reason for this travesty? Miss Fizz was insanely curious about a green bottle of Gold Bond powder this morning and tipped it over. As it hit the floor (next to her), the cap popped off, and talcum powder went

POOF

All over her.

Now– I heard this commotion and immediately assumed it was The Other Black Cat ™, aka Augustus Mousedeath, Researcher of Gravity, and went into the bedroom to find him.

At which time a tiny little five pound black cat comes tearing out of the bedroom, well dusted.

She was about to start grooming herself when I scooped her up and rushed to the bathroom, keeping her at a full extended reach from myself (both because of the powder and because she’s very pointy and hates being picked up).

So… how was everyone else’s mornings?

Everyone’s doing it… why not me, eh?

Bolds are true…

I’ve Never Smoked Pot
I’ve Never Kissed A Member Of The Opposite Sex
I’ve Never Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
I’ve Never Crashed A Friend’s Car
I’ve Never Been To Japan
I’ve Never Been In A Taxi
I’ve Never Been In Love
I’ve Never Had Sex In Public
I’ve Never Been Dumped
I’ve Never Done Cocaine
I’ve Never Shoplifted
I’ve Never Been Fired
I’ve Never Been In A Fist Fight
I’ve Never Had Group Intercourse
I’ve Never Snuck Out Of My Parent’s House
I’ve Never Been Tied Up
I’ve Never Regretted Having Sex With Someone
I’ve Never Been Arrested
I’ve Never Made Out With A Stranger
I’ve Never Stolen Something From My Job (well, not my current one. Burgers when I worked at Wendy’s… yes.)
I’ve Never Celebrated New Years In Time Square
I’ve Never Gone On A Blind Date
I’ve Never Lied To A Friend
I’ve Never Had A Crush On A Teacher
I’ve Never Celebrated Mardi Gras In New Orleans
I’ve Never Been To Europe
I’ve Never Skipped School
I’ve Never Slept With A Co-Worker
I’ve Never Cut Myself On Purpose
I’ve Never Had Sex At The Office
I’ve Never Been Married (heh… this is about to change!)
I’ve Never Been Divorced
I’ve Never Had Sex With More Than One Person Within The Same Week
I’ve Never Posed Nude
I’ve Never Gotten Someone Drunk Just To Have Sex With Them
I’ve Never Killed Anyone
I’ve Never Received Scars From My Sex Partner
I’ve Never Thrown Up In A Bar
I’ve Never Purposely Set A Part Of Myself On Fire
I’ve Never Eaten Sushi
I’ve Never Been Snowboarding
I’ve Never Had Sex At A Friend’s House While They Were Throwing A Party
I’ve Never Had Sex In A Dressing Room
I’ve Never Flashed Anyone