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salixbabylon) wrote2008-11-25 03:20 pm
salixbabylon) wrote2008-11-25 03:20 pm
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snapshot of youth
So I was answering the question about books and I remembered that decades ago I had a long list of "favorite books" posted to my user profile at school.
Guess what I found lurking on my hard drive? It's that special kind of embarrassing/amusing youthful pretentiousness:
% finger willow@ucscb.ucsc.edu
[ucscb.ucsc.edu]
Login name: willow
In real life: julianne
Directory: /b/e/willow Shell: /bin/csh
Last login Tue Nov 21 13:37 on ttyp2
Uses and interests:
Many Many Lists
Things I Hate
doing laundry
trying to second guess people's desires
pretending to be something i'm not
bra straps that fall down
scary thunder when i'm all alone
my shitty printer
phone bills
living with slobs
sexism (and most other -isms)
my lack of vision (as in, i'm blind)
8ams
being behind in reading
seriously fighting/disagreeing with friends
being sickly
pms
street people making me feel guilty for not having "extra" money
being scared of being alone
Things I Like
candles
incense (yes, worship me)
flowers
flannel sheets
converse
curls
the watch i "borrowed" from dad
Waterhouse women
Rossetti women
all the delicious women in Romantic paintings
cutoffs
Merchant-Ivory films
the idea of Taoism
anything chocolate
B&J Chocolate Fudge Brownie
the cliffs and beaches of SC
yummy men
yummy women
playing dress-up
backrubs (getting & giving, admittedly mostly getting)
lust
love
all things concerning the above except the confusion
my plants, Nickodemus and Ferdinand
Some of the Best Books in the World
Maurice--E.M. Forster
The Vampire Chronicles--Anne Rice
The Stranger--Albert Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
Hamlet
Twilight of the Idols--Nietzsche
Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand
the 28 Barbary Lane series--Armistead Maupin
"Torch Song Trilogy"--Harvey Fierstein
Cry to Heaven--Anne Rice
Candide--Voltaire
"No Exit"--Sartre
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
All Creatures Great and Small--James Herriot
The Phantom of the Opera--Gaston Leroux
The Charioteer--Mary Renault
The Last of the Wine--Mary Renault
Touching Our Strength--Carter Heywood
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You--Dorthy Bryant
The Petit Prince--Antoine de Saint Exupery
Nora Maeve and Sebi--Andrew Greeley
the Narnia books--C.S. Lewis
The Front Runner--Patricia Nell Warrenn
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...--Hannah Greene
last updated April 1992
Guess what I found lurking on my hard drive? It's that special kind of embarrassing/amusing youthful pretentiousness:
% finger willow@ucscb.ucsc.edu
[ucscb.ucsc.edu]
Login name: willow
In real life: julianne
Directory: /b/e/willow Shell: /bin/csh
Last login Tue Nov 21 13:37 on ttyp2
Uses and interests:
Many Many Lists
Things I Hate
doing laundry
trying to second guess people's desires
pretending to be something i'm not
bra straps that fall down
scary thunder when i'm all alone
my shitty printer
phone bills
living with slobs
sexism (and most other -isms)
my lack of vision (as in, i'm blind)
8ams
being behind in reading
seriously fighting/disagreeing with friends
being sickly
pms
street people making me feel guilty for not having "extra" money
being scared of being alone
Things I Like
candles
incense (yes, worship me)
flowers
flannel sheets
converse
curls
the watch i "borrowed" from dad
Waterhouse women
Rossetti women
all the delicious women in Romantic paintings
cutoffs
Merchant-Ivory films
the idea of Taoism
anything chocolate
B&J Chocolate Fudge Brownie
the cliffs and beaches of SC
yummy men
yummy women
playing dress-up
backrubs (getting & giving, admittedly mostly getting)
lust
love
all things concerning the above except the confusion
my plants, Nickodemus and Ferdinand
Some of the Best Books in the World
Maurice--E.M. Forster
The Vampire Chronicles--Anne Rice
The Stranger--Albert Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
Hamlet
Twilight of the Idols--Nietzsche
Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand
the 28 Barbary Lane series--Armistead Maupin
"Torch Song Trilogy"--Harvey Fierstein
Cry to Heaven--Anne Rice
Candide--Voltaire
"No Exit"--Sartre
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
All Creatures Great and Small--James Herriot
The Phantom of the Opera--Gaston Leroux
The Charioteer--Mary Renault
The Last of the Wine--Mary Renault
Touching Our Strength--Carter Heywood
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You--Dorthy Bryant
The Petit Prince--Antoine de Saint Exupery
Nora Maeve and Sebi--Andrew Greeley
the Narnia books--C.S. Lewis
The Front Runner--Patricia Nell Warrenn
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...--Hannah Greene
last updated April 1992