Monday update

[reymonkey]

Busy weekend... I feel like a regular socialite, with everyone calling me on the phone with sympathy. I got emls from some of my coworkers of OMG you're gone we'll miss you, and a coworker-turned-buddy called me and offered resume help and all. Thank you to everyone being supportive. I really am surprisingly okay. Just... moving on.
We finally got a new computer chair, that is to say an actual computer chair, with the swivelly and the going up and down bits and maybe certain people will stop complaining about being too tall for the chair when in front of the comp now.
Finished the commission for Mephron, of his fantastic character Azure Blade. You can find character info on his LJ here.
Lots of talking on the phone.

From dragonfare

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

And I liked the idea that you could strikethrough the books that you hated, so I did.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I always loved 'A Horse & His Boy')
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (In 6th grade...)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Loved it at the time...)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (Never got through it... Like the movie.)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Possibly not all of it.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

She and I got into talking over it, because we're not sure what the criteria are. There are so many classics and classic authors completely missing from the list, and then this clearly isn't the top most read or they wouldn't be complaining so many people haven't read them...

Anyway, today is for working on the resume, I'm too lazy to find the tilde for an LJ entry, and I have today left to finish my MGC entry, so we'll see if that happens.
The commission information is still all valid and go and feel free to keep pointing people to that! Thank you to everyone who has! It sounds like I've gotten more work in the 'other' field of commissions, and that's perfectly cool too. I've had jobhunts that lasted long enough to drain my savings before, and I'm remarkably low on savings this time, since the job ended unexpectedly. Income during this time will keep me from flailing at you all going OMG we can't pay the bills. You are all wonderful people for sympathy and art requests.
Have a good Monday!

Comments

[the-wugglyump.livejournal.com]

Of that list I have read:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Parts of the Bible, not the whole thing cover to cover.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
About half of Little Women---stopped when Beth died. :(
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams --has been read to me
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis--They have this AND The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe listed. Um.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

So, 24 and parts of three others. I didn't put Moby Dick down because I can't remember how far I got.

Hey Rey

[(Anonymous)]

This is Amy, Cheryl gave me your blog addy. I am another concerned co-worker. I loved working with you, you always made me laugh. Keep in touch. I'll keep your blog bookmarked so I can read it. Tell Jenny that I said Hi.

Re: Hey Rey

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! Sorry I didn't get to work with you much.
Jen and I are working on setting up an Etsy store for her dolls and my art, so there'll be a post on that soon.