50 Book Challenge-2012

Because I never got around to posting my last book for last year, I'll do it now.

40. Skateboarding to the Extreme! by Bill Gutman

He goes over the basics, like how to stop when you've finally got enough skill to go fast enough that you just can't step-off the board and be ok. He also seems to have this thing about missing salaam skateboarding. There's a few times he says things like, you can salaam if you want to, just because it isn't popular doesn't mean you can't! Or, you watch salaam skiing so why not salaam skate? Except I don't watch salaam skiing and I doubt everyone who doesn't do it doesn't do it because they see it as not cool. I'm pretty sure there are others like me who just don't find it interesting.

50 Book Challenge-2013

1. I got a copy of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring because I was in Landmark College's production as Abby Brewster. Just gotta love old ladies doing charitable acts. But can someone who knows more science than me help me figure out what would really happen if you mixed arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine in elderberry wine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN2XVnc2SAk

2. My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan

This was in the library discards at the school book sale. She may have been at a large, public university and writing about freshman class of 2003, but some of it is still relevant to, say, my small, private college class. For example, analyzing the messages really under dorm room door decorations of trying to portray fun, spontaneity (and no family photos) still stands. One of my friends was interested in the book, so I'm letting her borrow it before I ask all my teachers if they want to borrow it. (And maybe her remarks about why people don't speak out in class (it's a conformity thing) might ease some of my teachers' frustrations.)

23

So there are specific demarcations that I remember other events in relationship to, but I don't necessarily remember which year is which within certain bounds. So I remember wandering into Harvard Square's Pit at 22 and remember going to Job Corps at the end of 24, but I don't always remember what happened at 22, 23, or 24.

Relationship: With ex-bf 1, who I met in the Pit.

Living in: Childhood room in my "home"town.

Work/school: Deli clerk at a chain owned by a Dutch mother company.

Fear: How to move out of my parents' house and onto my own and away from their hoarding.

Best memory: Learning how to have an offline social life. That was starting to be combination of the Pit and Poly Boston.

Comment me if you want me to give you a year.