Buying a camera on boxing day and starting a new blog as soon as I figure the thing out =P

Another list.

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark after the guys you've never heard of.
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. ADD THREE OF YOUR OWN AT THE END.


01. Stephen Dorff?
02. Wesley Snipes
03. Denzel Washington
04. Samuel L Jackson
05. Hayden Christensen
06. Ian Somerhaulder
07. James Van Der Beek
08. Ashton Kutcher
09. Sean William Scott
10. The Rock
11. Brendan Fraser
12. Oded Fehr?
13. John Hannah?
14. Hugh Grant
15. Colin Firth
16. Liam Neeson
17. Daniel Day-Lewis
18. Leonardo Di Caprio
19. Billy Zane
20. Harry Connick Jr.
21. Sean Astin
22. Dominic Monaghan
23. Karl Urban
24. Vin Diesel
25. Paul Walker
26. Joshua Jackson
27. James Marsden
28. Shawn Ashmore
29. Hugh Jackman
30. Will Kemp ?
31. David Wenham?
32. Viggo Mortensen
33. Elijah Wood
34. Tobey Maguire
35. James Franco
36. Alfred Molina
37. Harrison Ford
38. Sean Connery
39. Shane West
40. Stuart Townsend
41. Richard Roxburgh?
42. Ewan McGregor
43. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
44. Christian Bale
45. Jared Leto
46. Colin Farrell
47. Ben Affleck
48. Josh Hartnett
49. Bruce Willis
50. Billy Bob Thornton
51. Dennis Quaid
52. Jake Gyllenhaal
53. Patrick Swayze *
54. Keanu Reeves
55. Gary Oldman
56. Tim Roth
57. Steve Buscemi
58. Michael Madsen?
59. Rick Yune?
60. Pierce Brosnan
61. Robert Carlyle
62. Jonny Lee Miller?
63. Jude Law
64. Matt Damon
65. Clive Owen
66. Ryan Phillippe
67. Benicio Del Toro
68. Johnny Depp
69. Orlando Bloom
70. Sean Bean?
71. Eric Bana
72. Brad Pitt
73. George Clooney
74. Mark Wahlberg
75. Jason Statham
76. Edward Norton
77. Ben Stiller
70. Owen Wilson
79. Vince Vaughn
80. Joaquin Phoenix
81. Russell Crowe
82. Billy Boyd?
83. Paul Bettany?
84. Heath Ledger *
85. Mel Gibson
86. Jason Isaacs?
87. Alan Rickman
88. Kevin Costner
89. Christian Slater
90. Antonio Banderas
91. Tom Cruise
92. Ving Rhames?
93. John Cusack
94. John Malkovich
95. Charlie Sheen
96. Kiefer Sutherland
97. Emilio Estevez
98. Rob Lowe
99. Matt Dillon
100. Kevin Bacon
101. Adam Brody
102. Andy Serkis
103. Alan Cumming
104. Josh Groban
105. Sean Biggerstaff
106. Zach Braff
107. Harry Sinclair?
108. Gerard Butler
109. Marton Csokas?
110. Jeremy Sumpter?
111. Sean Patrick Flanery
112. Cillian Murphy
113. Hugh Dancy?
114. Ioan Gruffudd
115. Mads Mikkelsen?
116. Enrique Murciano?
117. Jamie Bamber?
118. Craig Parker?
119. Dean Cain
120. James Marsters
121. David Boreanaz
122. James Spader
123. Kevin Spacey
124. Al Pacino
125. Jim Caviezel
126. Josh Holloway
127. Will Smith
128. Matthew McConaughey
129. Patrick Wilson?
130. Milo Ventimiglia
131. Jason Dohring?
132. Brandon Boyd?
133. Tom Welling
134. Sean Maher
135. Tré Cool
136. Billie Joe Armstrong
137. Mike Dirnt
138. Adrienne Armstrong?
139. Jason White?
140. Matthew Fox
141. Peter Sarsgaard
142. Derek Jeter
143. Travis Fimmel?
144. Michael Vartan
145. Rob Thomas
146. James Purefoy?
147. Michael Rosenbaum?
148. Jensen Ackles?
149. William Fichtner?
150. Patrick Dempsey
151. Ace Young?
152. Francis Capra
153. Ryan Hansen
154. Robert Pattinson
155. William Moseley?
156. Ryan Gosling
157. Nicolas Cage
158. Leigh Whannell?
159. Wentworth Miller
160. Jack Davenport?
161. Michael J. Fox
162. Kevin Federline
163. Liam Cunningham?
164. John Barrowman
165. John Rzeznik?
166. Sendhil Ramamurthy
167. Stephen Colbert
168. Jon Stewart
169. Brandon Flowers
170. Henry Ian Cusick
171. John Krasinski?
172. Michael Trucco?
173. Benjamin McKenzie
174. Adrian Pasdar
175. Jeremy Piven
176. Justin Timberlake **
177. Naveen Andrews
178. Vincent Cassel?
179. Adrian Paul?
180. Gabriel Byrne?
181. Adrian Grenier?
182. Daniel Craig
183. Nathan Fillion
184. Adam Baldwin
185. Ed Quinn?
186. Eric Szmanda ***
187. George Eads
188. Omar Epps
189. Jared Padalecki
190. Christian Kane?
191. Jeffrey Dean Morgan?
192. Geoffrey Rush?
193. Brandon Routh?
194. Chris Lowell?
195. James Callis?
196. Justin Chambers
197. Michael Muhney?
198. Matthew Goode
199. Bradley Cooper?
200. Burn Gorman?
201. Christopher Eccleston
202. David Tennant
203. Tom Felton?
204. Daniel Radcliffe
205. Rupert Grint
206. Kevin McKidd?
207. Gaspard Ulliel?
208. James McAvoy
209. Zac Efron
210. Jonas Armstrong?
211. Ed Speelers?
212. Penn Badgley?
213. James Lafferty
214. Bryan Greenberg?
215. Chace Crawford?
216. Joe Jonas
217. Toby Hemingway?
218. Dane Cook
219. Travis Wall?
220. Brad Paisley?
221. John Mayer
222. Blake Lewis ?
223. TR Knight
224. Hugh Laurie
225. David Duchovny
226. Damien Rice?
227. Ozzy Osbourne
228. Tim Daly?
229. Matthew Rhys ?
230. Robert Downey Jr.
231. Goran Visnjic?
232. John Corbett?
233. Michael Emerson ****
234. David Hewlett?
235. Robert Knepper
236. Nestor Carbonell
237. Robert Sean Leonard?
238. Zach Gilford?
239. Zachery Levi
240. Ryan McPartlin?
241. Penn Badgley? repeat
242. Zachary Quinto
243. Robbie Williams
244. Declan Donnelly ?
245. John Simm ?
246. Steven Strait?
247. Taylor Kitsch
248. Lee Pace?
249. Rufus Wainwright
250. Justin Chatwin
251. Chris Noth
252. Jack White
253. Matthew McFadyen?
254. Seth Green
255. Seth Rogan
256. Josh Beckett?
257. Damon Lindelof
258. JJ Abrams
259. Chris Pine


Notes:

* - I'm not into necro.
** - Pretty sure he's hit Britney Spears, so that would be a lot of persuasion.
*** - Good chunk of my teen years were spent drooling over him every Thursday night.
**** - I respect him way too much. He's a brilliant man, and I adore him.

Hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan♥;;

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I got half way through the 2nd book and couldnt go on .. ugghhh torture
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - a good chunk of it for university lit. anyway
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - I was actually thinking about this today. Maybe I'll go pick up a copy or .. go to a library? .. eek.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - sounds depressing. lol
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - i have hate for talking animals. thank you, disney.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - I can't remember if I've actually read this one or not
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - another one, I think I may have read parts of it when I was 8 but obviously too young to understand it all
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - there aren't enough underlines for this!!
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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So this obviously isn't LJ. I think I'm gonna use this as a base or starting point for my reading list. Which I haven't made. But will.

Blog Challenge: Stories of Unrequited Love./Breaking Hearts and Making Boys Cry

There's only one time in my life when I (admittedly half-heartedly) threw myself at someone and didn't receive open affection in return. A little rejection is good for the ego.

But we're not going to delve into that one tonight...

More than once, however, I've been on the other side of unrequited love - the unrequitor, I suppose (as my spell-check informs me that is in fact, not a word.) I could name names and point fingers, but I think I'll refrain. Most people who read this will already have some idea as to whom the individuals were. Twice I was pressured into so-called 'going out' with someone when I did not feel the same way they did about me.

Unfortunately both their names start with the same initial, so I'm going to have to get creative with the aliases ... T - wrote me love letters for a year (or more, I can't remember). I moved away, he cried. We lost touch for a bit, and then spent a few days together one summer, which re-opened his can of Justinelove (that's what I'm calling it. lol), and hardly a day went by that we did not IM or email each other. Then he got a girlfriend.
Notoriously, girlfriends do not like me. As Sarah and I used to say, we form the Whores Who Everyone Hates Club, we don't steal boyfriends, we just give them something better to choose from.
This girlfriend read his IM's and emails. Oh joy. Needless to say, he had to stop talking to me if he wanted to keep getting laid. The last time we 'talked', and I say that lightly, it was because the girlfriend messaged me over facebook to stop requesting to be his friend. I messaged him, told him to get his bitch a muzzle. We amicably agreed that what she was so upset about wasn't a big deal to either of us, and that she really just needed to move on. But we still don't talk. He says it's because of my 'shenanigans' - drinking, having fun ... yeah. Those shenanigans. (He was probably referencing the night I found out my unrequited love was dating another girl, and I got drunk and made out with Red Shirt Guy [still don't know his name]. But he wouldn't admit to it, because it overlapped with when he was dating the girlfriend, and it would mean admitting he had feelings for me at the time.)

G's story took place over a much shorter period of time. I was dating his best friend, J, and everyday he would walk home with us. He saw how badly I was being treated by J, but stood by and watched, and when J and I finally broke up (after I had cheated on him with W - God rest his soul - and avoided him for half a summer), he saw it as his opportunity. He was a great friend, and I never wanted anything more than that from him. It was very picturesque - perfect setting for a scene in a movie - when I made him cry.
He asked me out. I said no.
I felt really, really, really bad about it too so when he got teary eyed I caved and said fine. It lasted about 12 hours, until the next morning, when I - having gone home knowing what I'd done was wrong (I didn't like him! Why should I play with his feelings like this?), and thinking about it all night - told him I couldn't go out with him. I don't remember the exact details but our friendship didn't recover from that. Last thing I heard was his brother (whom I adored) went crazy and tried to kill his family by unhooking the gas. But it was probably just a rumour.

There are others - ones I don't have defining moments of and I'm still friends with - so writing about it would be kind of, maybe, very, very awkward at this time. One day their stories will see the light of day. But they're not over yet.

;)

A note/QOTB on making people cry: One time in 12th grade, I made a list of all the people I could remember that I had made cry. It wasn't a short list, and it was depressing. Does that make me a bad person?

Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie.

How is a person supposed to even afford to go to school when tuition goes up nearly $1,000 from one year to the next?

Niagara College Board of Governors voted an increase to tuition fees in February of this year, despite Student Governor Dan Tweyman's objections - he tried to declare it a conflict of interest, and was overruled by the Board's Chair, Michael Scott. Here's a link to the meeting's minutes, and the Board's website.

Plainly, this is outrageous. They have, of course, raised them well below the percentage caps set by the province, and that will be their selling point. That does not make it any less unreasonable, especially with the economy in its current situation. If anything, fees should be brought down as much as reasonably possible.

I was inadvertently tagged to do a six word memoir blog, but I really don't think I could ever sum up anything in my life in just six words.

In case anyone wants to do it ....

Here are the rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible, so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere

4. Tag five more blogs with links

5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

Because I tag anyone who reads this. =)

We got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

I think I'm done dicking around. I wouldn't say that I've wasted the past two years since graduation, but I sure haven't done a lot. Didn't like Brock, didn't have money for term 2 at Niagara, I've had 4 different jobs, and then there's all that invaluable personal growth and development in between.


As soon as my account with Ontario Colleges is reset, I'm applying to Print Journalism at Niagara. I'm done applying and trying to do things because other people think I would be good at it or it will get me a good job. I don't care how much money I make. Life is about more than the paycheck every two weeks.


I want to enjoy what I do for a living.