Hello everyone!!

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Man this site in inactive. So yeah, i decided to post this in the hope to get things a little riled up!!

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Jokes jokes hehe.

Sooo, what's everyone doing anyway?
I got like TOONNSSS of study at school. So been focusing on that. What have you guys been UP TO?!

You seem so full of energy, it's awesome. I'm a rather toned down person (at least most of the time, in the beginning... hehe) so I find it interesting to see someone the complete opposite.

I just got finished standing by the highway with a friend and two signs to see off our other friend that is moving away. It was great! Waking up early, on the other hand, I could live without. Later today I'll be celebrating the birthday of the friend that didn't move.

In general I'm just waiting for my job, which I have second interview for this Monday!

What are you majoring in, Amanda? Or... what are you focusing your studies on, career wise? I know not all places call it a "major" like America does.

I'm just doing the same old- going to work for 7.5hrs then hiding somewhere for an hour or two to read and rest my weary legs and head.

I have FINALLY gotten around to reading the Tolkein series. I tried many times in the past but I got impatient with his long-winded descriptions of a Hobbit's feet that the story seemed to be second to his painting pictures with words. Yes that's what made him special but it's like someone whose lecture COULD be interesting but ends up just talking about his college history. While the movies aren't really like the books, at least the story is more familiar to me and I can see things more clearly.

Walked with a church group in the Pride parade on Sunday and got more sunburned than I expected to! After the long, snowy winter that we had, it feels good!

The Tolkien series eh?
I'm actually reading "The Lovely Bones" at the moment. It's actually a really depressing and sad book, but oh-so touching, I can't put it down hahaha.
I don't know if you ever watched the movie, it was pretty good.
In the part I'm up to, Susie is watching all the people she loved on Earth grow up, and she can't do like, anything up in heaven, only watch. Cept Holiday, her dog just died and so he keeps Susie company hahaha.

The Lovely Bones was really profound in its own way. I think once I finally picked it up I didn't put it down much either.

Haha! I had the same exact problem when I picked up The Fellowship of the Ring. I remember my dad reading me the Hobbit when I was little and I re-read that and went to tackle the trilogy. It took two tries, because I couldn't get past the first few pages about the Shire. But I'm glad I did, LotR was an incredible read. Gandalf :wub: "A wizard is never late nor early, he arrives precisely when he means to."

Unfortunately I'm not reading anything right now. Any recommendations? I like all sorts of books, usually fantasy/fiction but I'm very open to literature. Not a fan of mushy romances, though.

I'll have to look for Lovely Bones after I'm done with the trilogy and then I have another one to read written by a teenage 'rebel soldier' in Africa. I like biographies, esp. by people OTHER than celebs. There was another incredible one I read a few months back called "Left To Tell" - a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Kind of an Anne Frank version, she and ten other women hid in this little tiny bathroom for weeks.

I've realised now another problem with LOTR (just about finished "Fellowship") is that he created all the names for these places but it's just places they pass through and you'll never see again. All the histories of people and beings with these long names that you'll never hear again. That WAS the one thing the movie did was simplfy so that the story became the object, not just seeing how many words we can form using every letter of the alphabet. Even though they changed the story a bit, at least it was understandible.

Well its graduation time so I was attending my niece's graduation last weekend. It was at Evergreen college in Olympia, Washington. It was a fun graduation and I got to hear Angela Davis speak. The speech was OK but a little disjointed for me and I have already mostly forgotten what she said so it didn't make a big impact on me I guess. The graduation was rather long and tedious as they called out all 1000+ names of the folks who were graduating as they made their way across the stage. Phew. We left shortly after my niece got her place in the spot light.

Outside of graduation we had lots of family visiting time. My niece's 2 sisters, Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa (my parents), a good childhood friend, and 3 Aunts were in attendance. We had a nice dinner out one night and a picnic in the park another. I spent lots of time on the road as I drove from the San Francisco Bay area to Olympia. I drove 7 hours one day and 7 hours the next. Then I repeated the trip back. So I spent lots of time on my butt in the car but the scenery was excellent. The drive through northern California and Oregon was awesome.