ladyjulianne

I’m on 28, so I’m going better than the books. It seems like lately all the films shown on TV don’t appeal to me though. I hope they show some interesting stuff soon.

I really need to step this up. I’m only on 23 when I should be in the thirties by now. Gotta read 6 books a month from now on.

I am never going to manage this, so I might as well give up now.

This thing must have been on my list for YEARS, but finally I have done it :D I now practice piano AT LEAST three times a week, I have been keeping practicing every other day up for over three weeks now, I’m so happy :)

But I wrote and posted two today, so I’m not getting any more of a post debt. I’ll get that extra owed one in once I’ve done all the work I need to do for uni, or enough to get by and be on top of it.

Argh! I have two days at home alone each week, and by the time I’ve enjoyed a lie-in in a nice quiet house, had breakfast on my own (bliss! I agree with Sartre), and done some writing and surfed the internet a bit with no one to interrupt me, I don’t have anytime left in which to play the piano. I dislike practicing when there are other people in the room, and my keyboard’s in the living room! Again, argh!

Maybe on Wednesday, but I really should be working on my writing portfolio, and the house is too noisy on the other days of the week for really quality writing time.

I haven’t made ANYTHING yet! I need to make some new bookmarks for all the books I keep reading. I have plenty of bookmarks already but the more the merrier.

I was doing so well on this since the start of the year, but last week I only managed one post. Argh! I have decided to post three times this week to make up for it, otherwise I will get even more of a backlog than I already have. I hope this is not an impossible goal, I do have a terrible habit of setting myself goals that are just a little bit impossible and then repeatedly disappointing myself because of this small impossibility.

Usually one of my parents do it, but today it was me :)

SIXTY IN 2008! Here I come!

I counted fiction and non-fiction in this list, but not books I had already read before. This is vaguely in order, some books were put in when I realised them. I may have reached or gotten close to this goal if I forgot somethings!

1. May Sinclair – The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
2. D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3. Andre Breton – Nadja
4. Angela Carter – Fireworks
5. (eds.) John Fowles and A.L. Kennedy – New Writing 9
6. Peter Ho Davies – The Ugliest House In The World
7. Samuel Beckett – Murphy
8. Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
9. Dorothy L. Sayers – Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
10. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
11. Bertolt Brecht – Saint Joan of the Stockyards
12. Angela Carter – Love
13. Harold Pinter – The Caretaker
14. Winifred Holtby – South Riding
15. Lavinia Greenlaw – Mary George of Allnorthover
16. Samuel Beckett – Endgame
17. Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own
18. (eds.) Carole Buchan and Kate Pullinger – Harlot Red
19. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
20. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
21. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
22. Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
23. Julia Darling – Crocodile Soup
24. Marita Conlon-McKenna – The Hatshop on the Corner
25. Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop
26. Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
27. Virginia Woolf – Orlando
28. Bram Stoker – Dracula
29. Arthur Schnitzler – Dream Story
30. Angela Carter – Wise Children
31. Inga Muscio – Cunt
32. Kira Jolliffe and Bay Garnett – The Cheap Date Guide to Style
33. Angela McRobbie – The Uses of Cultural Studies
34. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
35. Various – The Remarkable Everyday
36. (ed.) Maggie Hamard – Underwords: The Hidden City
37. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
38. Jane Juska – A Round-Heeled Woman
39. We Are What We Do – Change the World 9 to 5: 50 Actions to Change the World at Work
40. Funmi Odulate – Shopping For Vintage
41. Margaret Atwood – Negotiating With The Dead
42. Sarra Manning – Fashionistas: Laura
43. (ed.) Ziggy Hanaor – Making Stuff
44. A novel about a psychiatrist and his patients and staff, he’s skeptical about the “talking cure” but then it works. Can’t remember what it was called! Read it just after Crocodile Soup, I think.

I counted feature-length tv movies and documentary films in this list, but not films I had already seen before. This count is slightly inaccurate as I decided to do this once the year had already begun. Therefore, I may have actually reached this goal. This isn’t in order either. Parts of it are, but sometimes I remembered that I watched a film ages ago but hadn’t written it down so put it down then. e.g. “Princess Mononoke” I watched earlier in the year, but only remembered it yesterday when reading the tv guide and seeing it mentioned.

1. Kill Bill 2
2. Vera Drake
3. Spiderman 3
4. Pitch Black (although I was reading at the same time…erm…)
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Go
7. Y tu mama tambien
8. Somersault
9. The Magdalene Sisters
10. Garden State
11. I Heart Huckabees
12. Forest Gump
13. The Dreamers
14. Bowling for Columbine
15. Girl, Interrupted
16. Adaptation
17. Nosferatu
18. Kan shang qu hen mei/Little Red Flowers
19. The Trial
20. The Handmaid’s Tale
21. Blow-up
22. Alice in Wonderland (1966)
23. Alice in Wonderland (1906) (eight minutes long, but whatever!)
24. The Company of Wolves
25. The Birds
26. Shrek The Third
27. Eyes Wide Shut
28. Sleepy Hollow
29. Vanity Fair
30. A Series of Unfortunate Events
31. The Terminal
32. Ballet Shoes
33. In America
34. The History Boys
35. Amelie
36. Orlando
37. The Virgin Suicides
38. Elizabethtown
39. The Shadow in the North
40. Princess Mononoke
41. The Royal Tenembaums
42. Marie Antoinette

I haven’t done this for too long. Life is to short to not include more kisses.

I really want to do this. I sometimes tell random women when I’m in a queue with them what things about their outfits I love, but lots of times I see really striking people just walking down the street and I want to go tell them how stunning they look but I don’t because I still think it would be too weird.

I think I’ll start with girls. I’m used to complimenting girls. Complimenting boys is much more of a scary idea. I think I’ll have to dress in really kooky outfits the first few times, so that if they want they can just think I’m a crazy goth-hippie rather than be creeped out by an incredibly foward girl.

I really want to be able to cycle around my town. Riding a bike is one of those things that you never forget how to do, but I was so afraid of a) falling off b) crashing into cars parked on the side of the road that I stopped practicing years ago.

Now I don’t even know if my bike still fits anymore. It’s an adult ladies bike, but I think I might be too tall for it now. In which case, hopefully I can use my Dad’s. He never uses it either.

I’m up to 34! Still got a way to go, but even if I don’t achieve it, hopefully I can get closer than I am now.

I’m up to 28. I think I can get closer to the goal, although I may not make it all the way.

I did read most of them, last year, but there were some I just didn’t want to finish or didn’t have time to read. This year I have been doing really well but I don’t think I need to keep this as a goal anymore.

List coming soon!

I’ve worn them for three days straight

and then I made a hole in them

but I fixed it, yay.