Tagged!

Tracey tagged me!

Choose seven random facts about yourself and post them on your blog. At the end, list seven people you are tagging.

1) My throat really really hurts.
2.) I love love love 70s British comedy (Monty Python, Are You Being Served, etc)
3.) My favorite musician of all time is Billy Joel.
4.) I'm currently blasting Everclear, therefore annoying my parents :)
5.) My cell phone is blue.
6.) The last book I finished reading is Such A Pretty Girl by Laura Weiss. OMG read it!!
7.) I haven't filled out my FAFSA for next school year yet and it's due soon. I should probably get on that.


I'll tag: Pat, Andrea, and Veronika. Because they're my only blogger friends besides Tracey and she obviously already did it :)

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Everclear - AM Radio

I remember being so obsessed with this song when it came out! Wow that was like 7 years ago, haha. I still have it on my mp3 player though. Yay for Everclear! This is one of the coolest music videos ever.

recent reads and other randomness

Hey :) Haven't updated in a while, because nothing has really gone on. The weather's been hot and nasty, though. Eww. I did some shopping yesterday, because Savers had a 50% off everything sale. I got a Billy Joel shirt (that brings my total of Billy shirts up to...25? hahaha), John Saul's most recent book, a Carl Hiaasen book, and a few other things I don't need.

Speaking of books, I've finished quite a few in the past week. The best/worst thing about working in a library is all of the books I find to read. I finished up the most recent in the Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison, they're quite funny.

I also finished Strip Tease and Basket Case, both by Carl Hiaasen. He's such an awesome author. His books are really funny but they totally suck you in! I discovered him through Warren Zevon, actually. They were close friends for years, and Hiaasen co-wrote some of Warren's songs, such as "Basket Case", which was used in the book as the biggest hit by the rock star character. I started out with Skinny Dip, the book dedicated to Warren after his death (he came up with the title). But I can't stop reading his books, they're addictive! I highly recommend anything by him.

Just today I finished Peter Abrahams's new novel Nerve Damage. Sooooo good. He was really nice when I met him earlier this month at the RILA conference, so I started reading his stuff and he's great. Stephen King (my second-favorite author) says Abrahams is his favorite American suspense novelist. So if King likes him, I had to check him out. And he really is an awesome writer. I'd recommend Nerve Damage to anyone like me who's a fan of King, Koontz, or Saul. Also check out Oblivion. I haven't finished it yet but I'm in the middle and it's pretty damn awesome!

Enough ranting about reading. I'm an immense nerd.

On the music side of things, I've been really into Everclear lately. I've always liked them but I got the urge to download more of their stuff and they're really awesome. Art Alexakis is gorgeous (I can't believe he's acting in a crappy Disney Channel show now). I think my favorite songs are still "AM Radio" and "Wonderful", but I'm really liking "Now That It's Over" and "Unemployed Boyfriend" too.

Off to update my GJ and LJ, so goodbye for now :)

<3 Eliza

Edit: I IMDB'd Art Alexakis and am relieved to find out that he was only in one episode of a crappy Disney Channel show, and it was a small part. But how weird is it that I happened to flip by the other day and he was on? Weirdness!

NOT in a good mood.

I'm hot, miserable, frustrated, exhausted, homicidal.

And not in the mood to be messed with.

I'm NOT a people person.

My experiences today summed up why I really truly cannot stand people.

Blatant stupidity, attitude problems, children in general, laziness.

And the disgustingly weather isn't helping my mood.

Blah...

Today was pretty good I guess. My cousin Tif came over for a while, I kicked her butt at Monopoly on my computer, then we played around on other games. My mom and I took her home around 6:30, then dropped her boyfriend off to his class. My mom & I went to a few stores, I didn't really get anything. There's a CD player at Wal-Mart I really want to get though, maybe when I get my check. It's SpongeBob! <3 It's so freaking cute.

I really do need it though, because I've had my current CD/cassette player since I was 5. I'm 18 now, do the math. The thing hardly even works anymore. Hmm, only need to save up $17. Not bad.

I'm not feeling so great,m y stomach's killing me. Let's hope it's not the stomach flu or something as icky. But you know lil' ol' susceptible me :( Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow?

Till then,

Eliza

nothing matters much but love and money

Hey :) I'm listening to Warren Zevon, as usual. Right now it's the new collection of rare/unreleased recordings. So so good.

Also ripping Jackson Browne CDs to my computer. Much love <3 He really has a lot of better songs than "Running On Empty" and "The Pretender". Stuff like "For A Dancer", and "Looking East". He's so underrated, much like Warren was, but at least Jackson's had more commercial success than Warren ever did.

I'm so glad I invested in the 160gb hard drive a few months ago :) I have so much music on here, it's nuts. 16 hours of it is just Warren Zevon, and I have 160 hours of music total!

The weather sucked today :( I hate rain! I hope tomorrow is better!

Oh well, off to bed for now, I want to get some reading done.

<3 Eliza

RILA Conference 2007

So...the conference was pretty fun! I went with my co-worker Veronika, we took the bus together and got to the JWU library kinda early. There were breakfast-y snacks and whatnot. There were sponsors who had free pens and rulers, so I loaded up on free stuff XD The first program I went to as about blogging. We were taught how to create a blog and stuff...using Blogger! Too bad I didn't wait a few more days to get one of these things! So I helped Veronika with hers. We had a half-hour break after that, then went to the next program, which was about the RI Historical Society. It was pretty interesting, I didn't know it was free to get in. So now I really want to go!

When that was over there was some sort of meeting but I skipped that and had a muffin and read for a while. Then I went to the presentation room to see the speaker, (awesome) author Peter Abrahams! He's really cool. When he was done there was a book signing, so I bought a copy of End Of Story and he signed it for me :) Then came lunch! I love going to school at JWU, because we're known for the amazing food. Which is what we got for lunch! I sat with some people I didn't know, I'm trying to get over my social anxiety disorder so stuff like that helps. They were really nice. I met back up with Veronika and we went to the presentation about foreign films. I got a lot of links to cool video and archiving sites that I'll have to check out.

All in all, it was a fun day, and I'd love to go again next year!

conference tomorrow

So...the RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) conference is tomorrow. I'm kinda excited. It's a day full of various lectures and programs about library-type things. But the thing I'm most excited about is meeting Peter Abrahams! He's Stephen King's favorite suspense novelist. I started one of his books today, and he's quite good! He will be speaking at the luncheon, fabbity-fab-fab!

The conference is being held at my college's library, Johnson & Wales, and all of the food-y snacks are being provided by the JWU culinary department (JWU is most famous for the culinary part of the school). Sooooooooooo tomorrow should hopefully be good.

Though 8am-6pm is a very, very long day.

I'm taking the bus downtown with my super nice co-worker, Veronika, so we'll get there nice and early for registration and whatnot.

Whee!

Top 5 reasons I love Monty Python

One~I'm a sucker for 70s British comedy. I grew up with it because my dad loves it, so I've been inundated with Python since I was little.
Two~The Bruces' Philosopher Song is brilliant. I don't think I'd know who half of those philosophers were if not for the song. Of course, all during my Critical Thinking class last trimester, when we learned about Immanuel Kant, the song got stuck in my head XD "Immanuel Kant was a real piss ant..." Haha. I can't look at a Heidegger book in the library because I start laughing like a loon.
Three~Michael Palin was adorable. Well, he's still cute, for a 60-something year old guy. Haha.
Four~They pretty much changed the face of comedy in general. Because they were so...out there. Very different, stream-of-consciousness, and Gilliam's animations added so much to the material.
Five~.....................Noooooooooooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

bored

I am up far too early. I'd usually go back to sleep but I want to get to work at a decent hour. Occasionally I'll drag myself in there around noon, but then I don't get out till 3, therefore missing Passions. So I like to get there earlier :)

So what shall I do to keep myself awake for another 3 hours???

Hmm. Maybe a game of virtual Monopoly, or I could watch one of the trillion movies I have downloaded on my computer that I haven't watched yet...

Blah.

first post

Hi! First post in my new blog! :)

I have a trillion bloggy-things, but I mainly only use the ones listed on the side of this page. Though I'll try to use this one too!

There's not much to say about me that hasn't already been said in the little sidebar-thingy there, sooooo...yeah.

Guess that's it for now!

<3 Eliza