Firefly & Serenity, baby! Why? Within the first 10 minutes of Firefly, we had Wash on the bridge playing with dinosaurs!
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Yes...yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it...this land.
Wash: (as Allosaur) I think we should call it...your grave!
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Wash: (as Allosaur) Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now DIE!
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Oh no, God, oh dear God in heaven...

I really need to get the t-shirt.

Not to mention there was a large amount of ass-kickery in the show and the movie. Crazy chick putting the smackdown on? Yes, please!

The premise;
See if you can read 50 books in the next year. (2008)

Start Date: 01.01.2008
Date Updated: 08.17.2008
Books Completed: 14
Pages Read: 5922

Currently Reading:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (453 pages)

Books Read:
01. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (358 pages)
02. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (629 pages)
03. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi (670 pages)
04. Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2008 (263 pages)
05. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (296 pages)
06. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor (371 pages)
07. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (242 pages)
08. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (393 pages)
09. Duma Key by Stephen King (611 pages)
10. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (300 pages)
11. Without You: A Memoir of Loss, Love, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp (320 pages)
12. Wicked: The Grimmerie by David Cote, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Joan Marcus (192 pages)
13. The Ruins by Scott Smith (509 pages)
14. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (768 pages)

I'm tired of dealing wih a bunch of irresponsible douchebags.

Matt, Jill, & I were supposed to be going on vacation Friday. Portland. So we could go to the beach. Jill was given the dates we had off a month and a half ago; I, stupidly, waited on booking the room because she wasn't sure she could get it off. I've been harassing Matt for 3 effin weeks to call her and see if she got the days off; Walmart does their schedules a month in advance, she should know if she has the damn days off. So he called Thursday, finally, after much nagging, and no, she had no idea if she had the days off. He called again today, and she still has absolutely no idea if she has them off, because, you know, it's so goddamned hard to look at the motherfucking bigass schedule they have on the wall out back.

So I went to book a room anyway, and guess what...The only rooms available are either at Bates motel or are $170+ a night. Which doesn't surprise me, but it completely flabbergasts the irresponsible idiots I was supposed to be going with.

I'm not paying $170/night, and I'm not staying somewhere where I'll have to go down to the free clinic every day for a tetanus shot either.

I'm tired of this shit. I'm tired of being the only responsible person around here. I'm tired of having to shell out extra cash for hotel rooms because the jackasses I travel with are too stupid to do what I ask them to do the first 12 times I ask them to do it.

I'm going on vacations by myself from now on. Screw this.

The premise;
See if you can read 50 books in the next year. (2006)

Start Date: 01.1.2006
Date Updated: 11.27.2006
Books Completed: 21
Pages Read: 10744

Currently Reading:

It by Stephen King (1090 pages)

Books Read:
01. Desperation by Stephen King (547 pages)
02. Bag of Bones by Stephen King (732 pages)
03. Everything's Eventual by Stephen King (583 pages)
04. Beneath A Blood Red Moon by Shannon Drake (366 pages)
05. Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (659 pages)
06. Cell by Stephen King (350 pages)
07. Forever Odd by Dean Koontz (334 pages)
08. True Speed by Tony Stewart with Bones Bourcier (395 pages)
09. 1984 by George Orwell (326 pages)
10. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (183 pages)
11. Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson (311 pages)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (458 pages)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (398 pages)
14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (309 Pages)
15. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (341 pages)
16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (435 pages)
17. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (734 pages)
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (870 pages)
19. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (652 pages)
20. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (620 pages)
21. The Stand by Stephen King (1141 pages)

1. What's your favorite line from a movie, and why? "I'm takin' the day off. Now get dressed and come on over." - Ferris Bueller
2. Who's your favorite villain from a movie, and why? Jack Torrance, as played by Jack Nicholson. The first time I saw the movie was when I was four, and Jack's battle cry of, "HEEEERE'S JOHNNNNNY!" nearly made me piss myself.
3. Name one movie everyone else loves that you hate. Star Wars. All of them.
4. Name one movie everyone else hates that you love. Identity.
5. What's your favorite Pixar film, and why? Monster's Inc. "KITTY!"

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1. What is (or would be) your dream vacation? A month or two traveling aimlessly through Asia.
2. What's one thing no vacation can do without? A map and a cell phone. You can't get lost as long as you have a map and a cell phone.
3. What has been the best trip of your life so far? The road trip to see the Noise to the World tour on my birthday. It was right before graduation and we hadn't really had much time to just be crazy teenagers; it was just what we needed.
4. Who was with you on that trip and what is the role of that person in your life? Jessi, Moose, and Clarky; they're my best "here" friends.
5. What's the worst thing that can happen during a vacation? Someone gets hurt or sick...Which happens on all of my trips; when it's a family vacation, someone usually gets sick, and when it's just a road trip with my friends, someone, if not all of us, end up with minor injuries.