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Nicotine Posted: Nov 30, 2008, 11:44 pm

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I like your new avatar, just noticed it. :D

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Until-time-ends Posted: Nov 30, 2008, 12:03 pm

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Oh, I'm sorry.
*huggles*

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SasuNaruJunkie Posted: Nov 29, 2008, 4:50 pm

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No. Some unfortunate things happened to me on Thanksgiving, so no pie for me.

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  • Nicotine
  • Posted: Nov 30, 2008, 11:24 pm
  • Book List of Doooom

I decided to make a list of books that I have read in school :D. When I was shelving books at the community college library where I work, I was thinking about all the books I've read. So I decided to make this list and see if I could remember everything my English teachers made me read XD.

I think the high school list shows progression of the difficulty of what I read (if I can remember all the books I had to read!), As my memory unfogs, I should be able to add more books. XD

Yeah, this might be completely pointless, but if any of you guys are bored during the holidays, maybe this will give you an idea of what you can read! :D

Key:
*= loooved that book
x = haaaated that book
;_; = that book made me cry
:D = that book made me laugh a lot
o_o = that book really made me think
*_* = this book is a must, must read
+ = there was an option to pick what you wanted to read, and I picked that book from a list
nothing means I was totally indifferent XD

***Note: the grade level I read the book doesn't reflect the level of the book
High School/College List
9th Grade
+Death be Not Proud by John Gunther [link] - * ;_; o_o
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [link] - * :D
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [link] - * ;_;
+Tinker by Wen Spencer - * :D
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin [link] - x
Romeo and Juliet (play, duh!) by Shakespeare [link]
Antigone by Sophocles [link]

10th Grade
+China Boy by Gus Lee - * :D *_*
+Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [link] - * o_o *_*
The Once and Future King by T. H. White [link] - * :D ;_; o_o *_*
Night by Elie Wiesel [link] - o_o ;_;
The Chosen by Chaim Potok [link] - x
A Raisin in the Sun (play) by Lorraine Hansberry [link]
Julius Caesar (play) by Shakespeare [link] - *
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [link] - * ;_; o_o

11th Grade
+East of Eden by John Steinbeck [link] - * o_o ;_; *_*
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [link]
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [link] - * ;_; o_o *_*
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck [link] - * o_o
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston [link]
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck [link] - * :D ;_; o_o
The Crucible (play) by Arthur Miller [link]
Huck Finn by Mark Twain [link]

12th Grade
+The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand [link] - * o_o *_*
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë [link] - * ;_;
Othello (play) by Shakespeare [link]
Hamlet (play) by Shakespeare [link]
Antigone (play; different translation than 9th grade)
Candide by Voltaire [link] - * :D *_*
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad [link]
+Equus (play) by Peter Shaffer [link] - * o_o *_*
+Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger [link] - * :D
Tartuffe (play) by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) [link] - :D
The Wasteland (epic/modern poetry) T. S. Eliot [link] - x (okay, maybe the Burial of the Dead part is not so bad...>_>)

Freshman Year of College
Iliad (Greek epic poetry) by Homer [link]
Aeneid (Roman epic poetry) by Virgil [link]
The Clouds (play) by Aristophanes [link] - * :D
Medea (play) by Euripides [link]
Antigone (play...yes, again =_=)
The Apology by Plato [link]
The Bible (books Mark and Revelation, some)

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  • hina88
  • Posted: Nov 30, 2008, 11:05 am
  • NaNo WriMo 2008 WINNER!!!!

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LOL! -_- this is an incredible relief -_-;;; seriously I will think twice about signing up for this again (I''ll probably do it again anyway XD).

SO! I got it done :D and I'm pretty happy about it XD REYNDOR was the first person to say congratulations and when she did this huge grin completely split my face :D

SO-- wordcounts anyone?

MS Word tells me I have - 50,395
NaNoWriMo bots tell me I have - 50,053

MEH! EITHER WAY I'M OVER THE 50,000 in 30 days and yeah, that's good enough right? Have to say novel will probably longer but it's 50,000 done and out of the way for me to work with :D

Thanks everyone who gave me the scene suggestions because they gave me around 15,000 at the least :D so it helped a lot when I was stuck!!!

WOO! I'M OFF TO READ SOME FANFICTION CAUSE IT WAS WELL DESERVED DAMN IT! (oh and post about this all over the place >.>)

XD

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  • BittenKitten
  • Posted: Nov 16, 2008, 5:56 am
  • My Ochi-versarry!

On Thursday it was my one year Ochi birthday. A year ago Ochi found one of my posted stories on a competition site and invited me on here and for the first few months I HAD NO CLUE WHAT THE HELL I WAS DOING! I didn't know what uke meant, or RL, or brb, or LOL. I was SUCH a spaz! And I had only been writing for six months so I HAD NO CLUE about that either.

So I wanted to thank all of you guys for your patience as I asked about a million really stupid questions and for all the reviews and all the corrupting influence. I've written things I would never have written, read things I would never have read, seen beautiful art I would never have seen, if it wasn't for being on this site.

And I have laughed, and laughed, and laughed!

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  • Serenade
  • Posted: Nov 30, 2008, 12:35 pm
  • I did it

So, I finally changed my avatar. Now this may not seem like a big deal, but I've been hiding safely behind my stability of one single avatar for a while....

For you see, I have a deep dark secret, if unchecked I become that person who changes their avatar at any provocation... I'm a little addicted to finding ones I like. I hope I will not sink back into my bad habit again...

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  • questofdreams
  • Posted: Aug 22, 2008, 2:47 pm
  • THE GREAT OCHIBAU TREASURE HUNT!

http://www.ochiba.net/forums/posts/6/102/

GO GO GO! (I POSTED A HINT FOR THOSE PARTICIPATING AND WONDERING HOW MANY CLUES IN TOTAL THERE ARE) :3

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