Facebook

I really don't like Facebook. Yet now I'm a part of it. Urgh. But it's valuable enough for communication purposes that I suppose I will keep it.

I hate how every little change you make instantly shows up on your profile page! Is there no privacy? I mean, it's not like I'm taking part in unspeakable atrocities through facebook that need to be hidden from the world, I'm just a private person who doesn't really want people to be able to monitor everything she does on facebook. For example, I removed my relationship status in order to avoid the possible uncomfortable situations which some of my friends have encountered, and people instantly make assumptions. Incorrect assumptions, I may add. I suppose they've now learned what happens when you make assumptions. Do people really have nothing better to do with their time than to check everyone's mini-feeds to see what they've changed?

I do like the pieces of flair though. It's like a virtual version of the front of my purse!

Adventures in Driving II

It's the second adventure I've typed anyway. Driving mishaps happen pretty much whenever I go somewhere new.

This one actually came to pass on Monday, and I started writing about it on Monday, but then I forgot about it. I was trying to reach the not-so-distant land of Colerain, where Chuck E. Cheese, Half Price Books, and Ihop live so I could visit Home Depot to find some lovely flowers to plant in Ronda, Michael, and Kate Corbin's yard. I knew I had to get on Ronald Reagan, but for some reason it never occurred to me to ask my mom which direction I should be going. I chose east Ronald Reagan. I chose incorrectly. We had passed Blue Ash, narrowly (and an eensy bit illegally) escaped an entrance ramp onto the dreaded valley of horrors know as I-71 (or something-else-71), and come to the end of the Ronald Reagan freeway by the time we were positive that we weren't in the right place. A phone call verified that we had gone the wrong direction. Fortunately, the exit we took landed us in Montgomery, the least shady place you could ask for when trying to turn around in an unfamiliar place.

Eventually, we reached the Colerain Home Depot. We left that place to seek out Ronda's Fairfield home. The directions I wrote from what my mom dictated to me told me to turn on "Reysor". We drove all the way through Fairfield (crossing my old enemy, Dixie Highway, in the process) before realizing that we were once again lost. I turned around. Again. As we headed back, a song began to play on my iPod. This same song played in the last Driving Adventure I chronicled on this blog. It seems to choose the perfect moments to come up in the shuffle. The chorus of this song goes like this: "Maria, Maria, Maria, where did you go?". My brother about killed himself laughing. On the way back through Fairfield, I saw a street that I was pretty sure would take me to the Corbin house by a back route. For some odd reason, Jonathon was against that. I can't imagine why (I checked with Ronda later, and the street actually would have gotten me there just as I had thought it would). As we drove, it occurred to my brother and sister that they could help look for the street if they knew what it was called. I told them its name, and they spotted it shortly thereafter. Apparently, it was spelled "Resor" rather than "Reysor", but sometimes I only see the exact thing that I'm looking for.

Summer Reading

So today I succumbed to my summer addiction and read a book completely unrelated to any current responsibilities.

I received Twilight by Stephanie Meyer at a surprise birthday party yesterday and read it today. I've been hearing good things about it for a while now, and it was better than I expected. Yes, it's a love story, but it's about a vampire and a human (which makes it so much more interesting), and most of it moves at a fairly fast pace. The book contained a suspenseful preview of the second book. Now I really want to read the second book, then I'll want to read the third, and then I'll be stuck waiting for the fourth (and final, I believe) installment. I personally think the main guy should just turn the main girl into a vampire. It would solve so many problems.

During the summer, I normally end up doing pretty much nothing but reading with a hint of gardening and a dash of artwork. Although I have a lot more to do this summer, I still plan on doing a lot of reading. There are two books that all of us AP students are required to read, and we also get to pick one off of a long list from the teacher. I couldn't decide, so I'm reading three of them. At least. Plus there's all the other books I want to read.

In all, I have quite the comprehensive list of books I plan(ned) on reading this summer. The starred ones are required (at least to some degree), and I've already read the top two. The first definitely could have been better.

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling (I couldn't not finish the series)
-Twilight by Meyer
-New Moon by Meyer
-Eclipse by Meyer
-Breaking Dawn by Meyer (once again, I can't bear to let a series go unfinished, plus this one will hopefully remain enthralling all the way through)
-The Battle of Evernight by Dart-Thornton (the final book of a trilogy that really annoyed me, but I can't leave a story unfinished)
-Heart of Darkness* by Conrad
-The Bean Trees* by Kingslover
-The Road* by McCarthy
-The Time Traveler's Wife* by Niffenegger
-Beloved* by Morrison
-Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson and Relin
-The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by Barrow and Tipler
-The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle (it's going to be my school's fall play, so I want to review the tale)
-Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony by Tchaikovsky

I'm probably forgetting at least a couple. Perhaps I'll post reviews of them all. Perhaps not. I haven't decided.