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Nerdy, Social Butterfly Pioneer Discovers Top 30 Novels in History

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First and foremost, thank you to everyone who left comments on my last post and for the emails and IMs!!! Everything said was soooo helpful!!  This is a BIG decision and I only have 6 days to decide so it was nice to get input.  THANK YOU!!!  :) One particular thing said by Emily really touched home with me, “Crying doesn’t make you weak; it makes you human.”  That’s something I need to remember.

Today, in an attempt to figure things out, I met with the Director of the Dig. Comm Dept.  It was encouraging AND discouraging all rolled up into one!  Oh boy – what a trip.  Ok so the bad news is apparently this is a brand new program and as such they have no support staff, no internships, and no clue. :) The good news is that BECAUSE this is a brand new program I can turn it into whatever I would like.  CC+4′s encouraging words were, “Sounds like you’re going to have to be your own Pioneer.  All the great ones are.  No worries.  You are the one who is going to make your career not the classes at school.” He’s right.  And I guess great minds think alike because I had already discussed with the Director which classes outside of the department I would like to take AND the possibility of my heading up a committee or club for the department.  lol.  A nerdy, social butterfly pioneer. Hmm … I guess it could be worse.

In social butterfly news – Captain Charisma wants to catch-up tomorrow.  And then I’m supposed to catch-up with the Ultimate D.B. on Friday (though FM says it doesn’t matter how much UDB tries – he shouldn’t get another chance – we’ll see…)  Sunday I’ve been invited to a couple parties.  Oh and today, besides playing Dr. Phil to some girl he had a crush on during a short cruise over a month ago, (poor CC+4 – he can’t seem to get rid of me)  CC+4 put me on to the song “Hot Thing” by Talib Kweli – it’s hot.

In nerdy news - tonight – instead of watching TV like normal people do – I took Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels in History and cross referenced it with Radcliffe’s Top 100 Novels in History.  By assigning numerical values to each list I discovered the Top 30 Great Novels in History (the lists only had 44 in common and the last 14 weren’t ranked particularly high.) SO – yeah – fascinating isn’t it?  Oh wait …

FYI – I plan on reading all 30 – or re-reading as the case will be with a few of them.  :) Here’s the list for my fellow readers – ordered  according to ranking:

  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Ulysses by James Joyce
  3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  4. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
  5. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  10. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  11. Native Son by Richard Wright
  12. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  14. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  15. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  16. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  17. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  18. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  19. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  20. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  21. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  22. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  24. Howards End by E.M. Forster
  25. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  26. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  27. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  28. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  29. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  30. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Have a happy day!  I haven’t forgotten about pics for SYTYCD – I’ll try and get to that tomorrow.  :)

I need more in life than parties and pretty faces

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My favorite part of SYTYCD was the song below. I’ll post pics from it tomorrow.  :)

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Today I went to a killer ABSOLUT party in Bondi (though in order to get in I had to change my name to “Adrea.”)  It was worth it!  SO FUN!  But now I’m beat!!!  According to the people I was with there were “heaps” of up and coming stars at the party plus a couple full blown celebs (umm … I think that’s supposed to be cool? refer to title of post) and then Of COURSE Captain Charisma was there (but of course HE didn’t have to change his name to get in like I did – because OF COURSE it was already on the list. roll my eyes.  He’s on every list to every exclusive party EVERYWHERE!)

He stopped and said “hi” and then sent me a text later – and then called me too. LOL!  I declined his offer to play tonight. As I’ve said before, Captain Charisma is ridicously good looking but not relationship material and tries to kiss me every time we “catch up” – which is flattering – and he is a good kisser – but … well … I’m over the part of my life where pretty faces are all that matters.  Now I’m looking for a little more substance.  It also wouldn’t hurt if his initials had a “+4″ on the end of them … then he’d have substance AND be hot.  :)

Hey but remember the snowman video I posted? (click here to view it) Apparently the good old Captain stepped outside of his usual self-absorbtion and watched it on my FB page.  And now takes delight in teasing me for it.  Roll my eyes.  I think I liked it better when he was completely self-absorbed. He even asked how my test on Saturday went!!! Say what??  CC+4 hasn’t even asked me that.  Hmm … the Captain really MUST be keen on catching up.  LOL!

Oh I ALMOST FORGOT!!!  I met some dude who used to host a show on TV a few years ago – but who cares.  Anyway – Mr. A list (roll my eyes) asked me for my number.  Then sent me a text later saying, “Admittedly, the process of getting your number didn’t go as smoothly as I’d liked!  That aside, it was still very nice meeting you and hope to be in touch soon.”  HAHA!  I guess even attractive actors who have had moderate success still get nervous around girls. lol.  Kinda cute.

The only problem?  He’s one of Captain Charisma’s friends…  (Roll my eyes.  It seems my friend Captain Charisma knows everybody who’s anybody – which is why I call him Captain Charisma.)  Oh the life I lead … I love it – but with my solid family values upbringing – well – I can’t help noticing how entirely empty the lives of these people are.  Sure I was at the party too – but this is their life day-after-day.  Just one party after another.  With lots and lots of alcohol.  It’s fun for me in doses – but I’m looking for a bit more …

Facebook pictures mean “Call me”

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The pictures below (the Sculptures by the Sea ones) made their debut on my Facebook page yesterday – approx the same time they made their debut here.

I don’t post pictures very often on Facebook  (I used to be a Facebook maniac but then I deleted like ALL of my pictures because I was so “over it” – I know – I’m cool like that.  ;)) Ok – so I decided to post the Sculpture ones because they’re purrty and then I threw in the one of ME (see below) for good measure because it was time to post a “I still look about the same-just fatter” picture in case people were wondering if I disappeared to the other side of the planet and turned into a gorilla (because that’s totally rational.)

So completely out of the blue I got a call from an old “friend” today.  He wanted to catch up for coffee (except I don’t even drink coffee.)  I found it a bit unusual that he called because I haven’t talked to this old “friend” in a REALLY long time.

But then whadayaknow?  I got a call from him TODAY!! Apparently he saw the new picture on Facebook and wanted to call me and tell me how much he liked it.  It WAS very nice for him to call.  But I have trouble not being a tiny bothered that this “friend” completely ignored me for like EVER until suddenly, because of a Facebook picture, he remembered he’s still attracted to me.  Is that what it takes now in today’s society to rekindle interest?  We now have to post Facebook pictures??

Anyway, I did catch up with this “friend” for old time’s sake and we snuck away from a party to talk for a bit.  But when I got back to the party Davide had already left ( and that sucked big time because without Davide there I got cornered by some other people who remembered my name but I couldn’t remember their names and they were drunk AND offended but seriously how hard is it to remember one girl’s name that is DAISY which isn’t common and who is AMERICAN and a REDHEAD – and then how hard is it for ME to remember 40 people’s names at a party where it’s dark and I am meeting all them for the first time?  Oh and THEN some other guy kept trying to hold my hand WHAT? Where did that come from?  Why in the world did he think that was acceptable?  But he was a friend of a friend so I couldn’t be too rude  – AGH!!  Tonight!!  as soon as I felt I could leave without being rude – I left.  Alone. YAY!

Hope you all have fabulous weekends!  Mine has been peachy.

Oh and one last thing (as if this post weren’t long enough already) I broke a cardinal rule today.  I checked out someone’s Facebook page.  A someone in whom I have been interested.  WHY DAISY?  Why did you do it?  That’s a super big NO-NO!!! I HAVE checked his page before and it didn’t phase me.

But THIS time – like a month after the last time I checked it – I felt something I haven’t felt for a long time and it’s very unhealthy.  I actually almost sorta kinda in a way may have been like “ugh! stupid skanks!” in MY HEAD and in the most juvenile immature way possible.

But for real – stupid skanks.  It’s not HIM – no no no – it’s THEM.  ;) Because that’s totally rational too. I shouldn’t even CARE!!!  He lives back HOME!  I live in Bondi!  Why do I care? I shouldn’t.  And I don’t.  It’s just that TODAY there happens to be a lot of stupid girls back home who are skanks.  ;) Tomorrow I’m sure I’ll think they’re all peachy too.

p.s. thanks to an anonymous comment from “Voice” I’ve decided I was being a brat and I should focus more on the fact that at least he CALLED.  It was nice and much nicer than if he had just sent a Facebook message.  So thanks “Voice” – you are right. Except for the unicorn vomit part. 

Important Updates :)

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Ok so quick boy updates – and then I have to do TONS of homework before class and try and get a quick work-out in because I’m still as big as a whale.

1. BFA has nominated himself to be my new motivational Lose-Fat trainer. Should I take offense to this? I’ve decided no. I may be a whale but I’m not like a FAT whale. I think he just wants to see me at my best – which means WORK OUT, WORK OUT! Hence my decision to go jogging in a couple minutes.

2. Scary Scary Freaky Boy sent me ANOTHER message. Last night it was simply, “I still don’t understand why you don’t want to go for a walk with me.” Hmm … a walk in a foreign country alone with a psychotic man … yeah I don’t understand why I don’t want to either …

3. Captain Charisma. Didn’t think I’d ever be mentioning him again in this blog. With the one exception of Most Important Utah Boy, I don’t chase boys. I don’t call. I don’t make online social network friend requests.

So when CC told me he never makes social network friend requests himself, because he doesn’t have to (roll my eyes!!!) I assumed we would never really hear from each other again because… ya know … I wasn’t going to make the request… he wasn’t going to make the request… and he’s now in a foreign country where we can’t have a chance meeting.

Ok – so long story short – Guess who broke their rule? Not me! Aww – I still don’t think we’ll ever see each other again but it means I actually crossed his mind even a half a world away …

4. Most Important Utah Boy – last and most certainly making a slow progression to least :( is MIUB. Ah so sad … I still like him. We IMed this morning and he complained that he was logged onto skype this weekend and I never did. Huh – that’s weird. Why didn’t he just send an email telling me to log on? Hmm …

Then he suggested that we skype TODAY. And when I explained I couldn’t skype today (too much homework, I have class and need to work out,) he told me that today is really the only day he can because he has dates every other night.

huh. So am I supposed to cater to his dating schedule?

Then he said, “I am only suggesting a skype tonight because I’m sure you’re getting pretty boy lonely in Australia. Thought you’d want a fix.”

Boy lonely? HA! Oh MIUB you surprise me. Thank goodness you don’t read this blog!!! :) No sweetie – I haven’t been boy lonely and if you were really interested in making sure I’m not homesick you would bother to contact me more than once or twice a week.

Tuesday – oh wait – it’s Wednesday

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I went and saw “Mamma Mia!” last night with My Flattie and Dr. Sarcastic. After the movie Dr. Sarcastic and I talked for a long time. He gave me some advice with regard to boys (e.g. that I should avoid all men like Captain Charisma [even though he doesn't know a single thing about CC] and that I should confess stupid stuff to Most Important Utah Boy.) I’m think I’m going to go ahead and ignore all of his advice because 1 – I’m too scared of rejection and 2 – he is unfairly judging CC based on CC‘s amazing good looks. :)

After the movie I met up with Captain Charisma (much to Dr. Sarcastic’s dismay) and lucky me, CC thankfully chose not to make another comparison between my appearance last night and the previous nights. YAY!


Class went much better yesterday and I’m starting to make more friends. YAY! Today I bought the last book I need and did more grocery shopping. I think I’m getting the hang of Australian grocery shopping – except for the crazy run-away grocery carts that are absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to control.

I’m serious. You THINK I’m full of it. How could a grocery cart be impossible to control? Well, you try pushing around a cart that has four, extremely well greased 360 degree swivel wheels. You can’t make the cart turn – why? Because the wheels are independent of the cart. Turning the cart does not necessarily make the wheels move in the right direction. You could go in 43 circles before you can get that blasted thing to turn a corner down an aisle. And you can forget trying to push that thing around on slanted ground. I looked like I was dancing a ballet when I tried to push and pull the cart to the car. The concrete was slippery smooth and with no traction I swear that thing came alive and had a mind of it’s own.


I’m currently in love with the song “American Boy” by Estelle. Oh – I LOVE it, however I must bitterly admit that the song reminds me of MY American Boy (MIUB). :( No worries though … it’s like Captain Charisma’s favorite song right now too and so it’s slowly starting to remind me of him. Especially because he says to me “Will you be my American Girl?” to the tune of the song. At least CC doesn’t have a problem with American girls!!!!

The only other little issue to note is Scary Scary Freaky Boy. Most Important Utah Boy warned me that hanging out with Scary Scary Freaky Boy may have given him the wrong impression but I was like “Nah!” thinking that because I told Scary Scary Freaky Boy that I like Most Important Utah Boy from back home that he would get the hint!!! I was soooooo wrong.

So wrong.

SSFB and I went to Centennial Park together and I didn’t flirt with him even one bit! You may find that difficult to believe but look – I fess up to my flirtations. This wasn’t one of them!!! I prattled on and on about MIUB and about Utah and blah blah blah – I didn’t walk next to him – I didn’t bat my eyes at him – I didn’t give him one of my looks. AWKWARD was written all over my body language and my face the entire time because I’m not attracted to him and because he’s not social or engaging. Plus he kept complaining about this girl from our church who wasn’t interested in him and then he started saying that though he didn’t know for SURE – he could guess that her moral character was shady. HOLD UP!!! Umm … hello? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU SCARY SCARY FREAKY BOY? That’s really bad gossip – and you shouldn’t be telling me things like that about a mutual acquaintance.

Anyway – again – I was distant and non-engaging myself. You would THINK that he would just leave me alone right?

Wrong.

So wrong.

He asked me to hang out with him the next day. I ignored the text. He sent me a frowny face because I didn’t reply and that one text was what solidified I would never see him again. Oh no you don’t! Not on me. I will not tolerate someone trying to make me feel guilty. Uh uh – no way. I had a 4 year relationship with a guy who controlled me by using my guilt against me. I felt guilty for EVERYTHING – including the way I loaded the dishwasher because ya know – I SHOULD have known how to load it correctly. (roll my eyes) So yeah – I don’t put up with that now. And I will not see him again – period. full stop.

Even though I have ignored him for 8 solid days in a row – he texts or calls me every single day. I never reply – I never answer. He started calling from mystery numbers in the hope that I would be tricked into answering. NOPE!!! And then last night – even though we haven’t talked for over a WEEK he asked me to please send him pictures of me.

PSYCHO.

I think that about updates my blog. Have a great day!!