Vol 56

Nice view. Horrible smell.
I'm working at the warehouse today. I love the warehouse. Just me and one other person. No children. No animals. No gift shop. And tons of places to eat.

Vol 55

I have a Biology final in less than 11 hours, and I don't think it'll surprise anyone that I haven't studied.
Also, I have a Linguistic final paper due at the same time, and I've only wrote 2 out of 10 pages so far.
I'm so confused. (Not by the paper)
Yesterday around this time I was completely energized and zipping around with loads of unwanted energy. It was four AM and I was still wide awake, but today I've been a tired as a dead mouse since ten PM.
BAH!

I'm going to bed now, and I'll wake up at seven AM to finish my paper. I have the outline and powerpoint so it shouldn't take more than an hour and an half to review all my sources and case-studies, and finish the paper. I don't have to leave until 11:30 am, so that gives me 4 1/2 hours. Then I'll get to school, submit my paper, take my Bio final, and come home where I need to write a 15 page paper that's due by midnight. FUNNNNN! Not!



But today I gave myself a new goal. It's a short term goal.
Not really a career choice, but something I want to try.
I think I mentioned it before, but now I'm aiming with a little more resolution.

Oh yeah, there was this paper I submitted for my Interdisciplinary class a few weeks back, a personal essay about my talents and hobbies.
My talents and hobbies all lie in the arts: Dance, Drama, Photography and Film, Creative Writing, Foreign language, etc...
But my career goal is to become a Neurosurgeon.
Kind of not in the same fields at all.
So my Professor made a comment that I should check out UNESCO, which is a branch in the United Nations that deals with education, science, and culture worldwide.
My advisor laughed at this because when we were trying to create my major a few months ago we came up with something like that: International and Cultural Health....or something along that line.

Vol 54

Just knowing that the ever-so-mean author who I adore, Nalini Singh, is starting on the tenth book of her Psy-Changeling series, Hawke's book, is enough to elicit a howl of my own to the moon.

Vol 53

I blame you, Trice, for this current Miyazaki craze of mine.
I don't have time for this.
I have two final papers due on Wednesday and a Biology final exam, also, on wednesday.
You disappeared for two-three days, not updating Afternoon Tea, and come back with Miyazaki.
Sooooo not cool.
You know how addictive Miyazaki films are.
This is not what I need right now.
Instead of starting one of my papers or even studying for Biology, I'm sitting here waiting for my hair to dry and watching Howl's Moving Castle.
Worst thing of all is that this is English dubbed.
Yuck!
Need to find a copy with Japanese audio.
And I think I'll watch Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) next, or either Spirited Away.
It's been a while since I've watched Tokyo Godfathers and Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro).
Thanks Trice.
This is just fan-fucking-tastic.


Well, I won't complain to much.
It's not like I have anything to read.
Finished all the current books, and novellas, for the Lords of the Underworld series.
And I only have three Westmoreland's left.
I'm procrastinating.


I think I'll start that paper soon.

Vol 52

Now isn't this IRONIC!!!!

I'm excitedly typing this entry right now because, as of 10 minutes ago, I've successfully completed my New Years Resolution to read 52 books.
YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the ironic part is that my goal was to read 52 books.
This just so happens to be Vol 52.
And to top it off, if you look at the month and date for today, it is 05-02 aka 52.
Ho Ho Hahaha!!!

Now I remember the titles of the other books I forgot.

Pleasure Seekers by Rochelle Alers. (I would have been happier with this book if Alana didn't get pregnant by her lame ass ex-boyfriend.)

Lessons from a Younger Lover by Zuri Day. (OH I ADOREDDDD Ransom. Just because because his name was Ransom. And i kinda have a thing for kougar stories. Gwen was 15 years older than Ransom. Ransom was a single dad. His baby mother was insane. His neighbor chick/friend was too desperate. And Adam, Ransom's older brother and Gwen's former classmate, was a has-been who got what he deserved. Ransom should have whipped his butt, again. Ransom's daughter was cute but since I don't like sassy little girls, she was only cute. She was no Justin from Choices, or Keenan, the cubs or Ben from the Psy-Changeling series. She wasn't even a Noor from the Psy-Changeling series. Not that his daughter was bad, but bah!!!)

Crossing the Line by Bernice Layton. (This was an Indigo Love Spectrum book, and if you've read my previous entries, especially the earlier ones from this year, you'd know that ILS is a interracial publisher. So this was Black girl, white guy. The reason I read this book was because the author is from my City **BALTIMORE!!!** and I hoped that the story would be entertaining. It was. I liked it. My coworker loved it, but she tends to love anything from ILS. She loved it so much, that she bought the book from me, now she owes me another book. HA! I always find these books unrealistic with their one week loves, but I liked how the two character felt so miserable while separated.)


I've mentioned Brenda Jackson's series The Westmoreland's in my previous two-three posts.
I'm still working on it.
So far I've managed to read:
1. Dulaney's Desert Sheikh (Jamal...*smh* no way you could think Dulaney would follow certain customs that belittled women. She is definitely a handful.)

2. Seduced By a Stranger (Who wasn't really a stranger since it was Johari's fiance. This story and Dulaney's story was interesting because it had a portrayal of how someone of Middle Eastern Culture is expected to act. Not that it was an accurate portrayal, but I liked talking to my middle eastern friends about it.)

3. The Chase is On. (Of course Chase would fall for Jessica...or in this case, Jessica would fall for Chase, when their families were once friends now Sworn enemies.)

4. Seduction, Westmoreland Style (Although it's called Seduction, Westmoreland Style, I think McKinnon Quinn had a larger role. The story was told through his eyes more. But now that I think about it, the story is always told by the person who is NOT Westmoreland. Shelly, Jessica, McKinnon. I think Dulaney and Durango's stories were told more through there view...or evenly)

5. The Durango Affair (They met in "The Chase is On" at Chase and Jessica's wedding. Apparently they got busssyyyy that night, and well into the morning. Two months later, Savannah, Jessica's sister, shows up at Durango Westmoreland's home in Montana to tell him that she is pregnant. She didn't want anything from him, but she felt that he should know and it would have been wrong to tell him via phone. But the two end up marrying for the baby's sake. A Marriage in name only...or so they thought! HA!)


If you can count, you can see that this makes 52.
Pleasure Seekers is the book that I FORGOT, in my previous post, so So pleasure seekers through Crossing the Line are books 45-47. (Which I mentioned in my last post).
Now the Westmoreland series makes it 52.


FIFTY-TWO BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
This is really a big accomplishment for me.
From 2005-2008, My book total was less than 5.
5 books in 3 years.
I started reading last summer and read a good number, more than 20 for sure.
So in a way my count is in the 70's if you think July 2009-July 2010.


G2G. Thorn Westmoreland is calling me!

Vol 51

I was asked a simple question: Why do I buy my books and not borrow them from the library?

I gave a simple answer: Library's disgust me.

They really do! Do you have any idea how many people borrowed that book before you? NO! And if you look at some of the conditions those books be in, and all the crap on the pages: grease stains, food spills, BOOGERS!
*shudder*
I do borrow some books occasionally.
There are four books in this picture that are from the library. (Middle shelf, top four books laying flat)
And all the books on top (Brenda Jackson's Westmoreland series) are borrowed from a coworker (she introduced me to that ever so loved Psy-Changeling series), but I often switch books with this coworker. Besides a bigillion folded corners, her books are always in great condition. CLEAN condition.


Anyway, I'll try to list some of the other books I read recently.
Some titles I forgot, and my coworker currently has them. She borrows from me, sometimes.

1. Oak Bluffs by Joan Early (3 out of 5 stars. The mother was annoying, good thing she wasn't around often, and hated how mother Pearl just died like that. But it was well written)

2. I'm your Girl by J.J Murray (5 out of 5. Now the mother is this was really hypocritical. Couldn' stand her. It was a interracial couple book. Dear gods, how I felt so bad for Jack. And this book was written by a white man. Never thought I'd see the day where I'd read a book about a Black women and white men, written by a white man. 本当にすごい！今年の一番好きな本！ハハハ！日本語覚えているよ！久しぶりだね！！！)

*I'm going to skip three books because I forgot the names and I my coworker has them*

3. The Darkest Angel/Night/Kiss (This is a novella and the first two books of Gena Showalter's 'Lords of the Underworld' series. It would have been pointless to write out the title of all three books separately when the only world to change for each book title is the last world. I'll give this one a 3 out of 5, but note that I've only read three parts too it. I have the next two book **the two in the picture, first shelf** and another books comes out in May. I'm not a religious person at all but I've always found Greek and Roman mythology fascinating ***I even wrote a fiction that involved my own fictional Greek and Roman characters***, so when I read this book and saw how it's kind of a spin-off about the Greeks, not so much about the Gods themselves, but about their warriors, found myself enthralled. I'll only give it three stars because not finished and some parts are rather tedious, like book two (Kiss), Lacien continued to push Anya away although she all but literally handed herself to him on a platter. It was annoying. 230 pages before he acted. Foolish man!)

4. A Little Dare by Brenda Jackson (3 out of 5. A lot better than that last Brenda Jackson book. I was afraid to read this, but it was in another book I borrowed that had a Rochelle Alers story. LOVED THIS, but not enough to give it 5 stars. Loved it because his name was Dare. Loved it because unlike the other book I read, this one had a plot. Loved it because Shelly was a lovely woman. Loved it because Little Dare was exactly like I would picture a 10 year old. And sorry, Anyone series that has leads with names like Dare, Thorn, Stone, Storm and Chase (last two are twins) deserves some loving.)

5. Stone Cold Surrender by Brenda Jackson (Currently reading it so no rating yet. But I would like to read one of those mystery's Rock Mason...Sorry, I mean Stone Westmoreland writes.)



*goes to look at a friends blog who I spam with books to see if she skipped one*
CRAP! I'm forgetting a few of them. I just know it.

Anyway, this is 47, even though I know I'm missing some. At this rate, I'll be finish my goal by the end of May.

I'm signing off now.

P.S
Does original fictions count?? Not my own, but my friend is writing one (kinda forced her to). I read that. Actually, she wrote two I read, but since it's not published I won't add them into my list. So still 47 until I find the one's I'm missing. I bet my coworker has them.

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Today I am reading this book.
It's going to piss me off. It's about the intra-racial issues within the black community amongst females. Skin tone. Hair texture. Things like that.
I'm 4 pages into it and already I have a problem with it.

Carmella, an advertiser, is pissed that Halene, a black cosmetic line creator, wants to use a light-skinned model inside of the dark-skinned model that they choose. She's going on about how white people can piss you off many ways, but it's a black person who breaks your heart when they diss their own kind.

Now there is this guy, Shane, who likes Carmella, and she knows it. She talks about how fine he is, but she wouldn't date him because he's light-skinned. Not here flava, as she so kindly said. She even goes on to say that he might be high maintence and stares in the mirror a lot, all because he's light-skinned.

What the hell kind of shit is that? Now isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.