restlessspirit

I went to New York to be a part of Occupy Wallstreet.
Since the raid, I’ve been the ODC and OCH.
During the spring, I’m going to keep on visiting occupies across the country.
I am participating in a protest. In a movement. And being apart of history(:

Last year, which seems like forever ago now, I took a year off from college. To be honest, I wasn’t ready for college.
I had dropped out in the middle of my junior year in high school and was in college when I should have been a senior.
But that very fall I started college, a story that had been processing in my head finally had to be let out. I guess it started in late October, early November 2008.
By the next year, I was having doubts of college. And I knew for sure that I wanted to dedicate my absolute time to writing that same story that had blown up into a very large plotline.
I had stayed with my grandma out of state for the three months. It was one of the best experiences of my life.
When I was home for Christmas, it was the strangest feeling ever.
I took the next level of English composition online while I continued to dedicate my time to my book.
I am such a young writer. I am still learning and improving my writing.
I miss writing full time so much. I’m in my 2nd semester of carrying a full load at college. I can’t help but miss living my fantasy world every single day.
I enjoyed the bizarre sleeping patterns I developed.
I decided after a while that it would be impossible for me to major and find a job in something else.
When you decide that you want to be a teacher or a lawyer or a doctor, you don’t have to decide on a 2nd major. You put all of your energy and effort towards that.
I have wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl. I used to skip school to stay home and write stories while in elementary school.
I don’t think that this isn’t just a dream of mine to do. I think it’s the one thing that will make me happy doing.
I hope at some point I will have the chance again to do this. Only this time have it be permanent.

I have been neglecting this goal for some time now. With working on one of the goals on my list, Spring Clean my Room, and one of my resolutions, Clean out my Room, Letting go of the Past, I have cleaned out books that I know that I will never read or have read already and will never pick up again. This is what brought me to this goal again. I want to work on it. I see now how many books I have wanted to read for some time but haven’t yet. Either I have never picked up the book or I have once picked it up but never finished it. I’m going to comb through my bookshelf and make a list of all the books with their authors.

I made a few mentions about how I stopped a book because I started writing again. I’ll just state up here what I mean. I have this thing about me where I can’t read and write at the same time. I’m in the middle of writing a book. Reading books distract me while in the middle of writing. But I have decided to put my book on temporary hiatus and let myself read. I think I really need the inspiration aneways.

My book list is a mix of my fascination of the supernatural and fantasy, some of the classics, and some childhood books that I have always wanted to get around to read.

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain—Started it and then stopped.

2. April Morning by Howard Fast—a school book I never finished

3. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

4. Cathy’s Key by Sean Stewart

5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis: The Magician’s Nephew,
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
7. The Horse and His boy, Prince Caspian,
8. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,
9. The Silver Chair, and
10. The Last Battle.

11. Darkness Everlasting; 1
12. Embrace the Darkness; 2
13. When Darkness Comes; 3 all three by Alexandra Ivy

14. Ever World Book I & II by Ka Applegate

15. The Great Gatsby by F. Scoot Fitzgerald—Was almost done with this book until someone told me the ending…I didn’t finish the book. I’d like to though.

16. Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke

17. How I live Now by Meg Rosoff—once started it

18. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

19. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

20. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte—once read it but didn’t understand it as well as I had liked too. I’ve always wanted to reread it.

21. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

22. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

23. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien: The Hobbit-which I once started but was young and grew bored quickly—,
24. The Fellowship of the Ring,
25. The Two Towers, and
26. The Return of the King.

27. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

28. Masquerade a Blue Bloods novel by Melissa De La Cruz—A book I once started. It even still has the book mark in it. Page 147.

29. Med Center: Fire;
30. Blast;
31. Blizzard; and
32. Poison. (started Fire and was really into the series, but started writing again.)

33. Midnighters The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld—Once started. Still doggy eared at page 174
34. Midnighters 2 Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld

35. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

36. The Red Badge of Courage—a school book I never finished

37. The Rouseabout Girl by Gloria Bevan

38. The Royal Diaries: Isabel: Jewel of Castilla by Carolyn Meyer—A childhood book I’d like to read

39. The Royal Diaries: Jahanara Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky—A childhood book I’d like to read

40. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41. Sunshine by Robin McKinley—a book I have started twice. Love the book. But my writing keeps my from stop reading and putting it down (a note about that as well).

42. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Unabridged)

43. Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

44. To Kills a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee—a school book I never finished

45. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit—started it, but never finished.

46. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

47. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

48. You don’t know me by David Klass—once started it