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[luciab]

I've had a migraine all day, though it's been at least partly subdued by meds. I was so crosseyed this morning that I didn't go to work, and I think that was a good decision. I had a paper due in class tonight, though, so I took it and went. Another student was in the throes of a bad migraine and sat shading his eyes from the flourescent lights the whole time he was there, which was only half the class. I was glad the meds- and a Pepsi- knocked mine back enough to go to class and even be coherent enough to ask questions. Now I need to work on Saturday to make my hours this week. Whee.

I'm watching The Shield now. Forrest Whitaker has a recurring role this season as an IAD cop who is trying to nail Mackie. While his character has the moral high ground, Whitaker still manages to imbue the role with menace, smiling all the while. *Shudder.* He says "It's good to meet you" to Vic and it's scary as hell. This guy's a pretty damn good actor, I think.

And now for the book list. Bold the ones you've read, Italicize ones you're likely to read, leave alone ones you have no interest in.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

Some of those I've never heard of, some I had no idea were any kind of big deal, and some just bore me to even think about. And the way homework reading is shaping up, I might be doing well to read one non-required book per semester. Holy cow.

Oh, and for god's sake, buy stock in a copy paper company. None of the copiers at the library print on both sides, nor does my poor little printer on which I'm printing everything I can download. Geez. I'm going to be buying paper at an alarming rate. Two of my three teachers use pwer point presentations, and one them only prints out one slide per page, so there might only be a dozen or so words on a page. Talk about wasting paper. At least the other guy prints 3 slides per page with lines for notes beside each one. I need to figure out how to do that.

Hope I can sleep, what with the Pepsi. Right now I feel like I might never sleep again.

Comments

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

The powerpoint printing thing? If you go to File: Print, on that dialog box you should see a spot where it says "Print What:" and you have a pull-down menu to choose slides, handouts, notes pages, or outline view. If you tell it handouts, some grayed-out options to the right (on my version) become active and you can choose how many slides you want to print per page - 1,2,3,4,6, or 9. Only 3 has the space for notes to each side, the others have their own uses.
Notes pages, btw, is handy if you're *giving* the presentation. While you're creating the presentation, you can go to View: Notes View and you'll see a page with a pic of the slide at the top and room to put your speaking notes below. Then you print it by going to Print What: Notes Pages. I suppose, if you could get a copy of the presentations before class, you could also take your laptop in and take notes directly in this view, depending on how fast you type. (I tend to prefer typing notes, but that's just me.)

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was hoping someone could tell me that. I can't type real fast, and I make a fair number of mistakes but if I could force myself not to worry about spelling etc until I get home, I'd like to try that. When I was IMing with my daughter I got so I could go for speed instead of perfection (not easy for an English teacher's kid!) The one teacher does post her presentations before class, so I could do that.

[zihuatanejo.livejournal.com]

The migraines have been INSANE this weekend. Just about everyone has had them real bad. For the past five days I've woken up with one. Thank GOD I'm almost to the end of my current scrip and can get a refill today.

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Is it some kind of barometric pressure thing or something? I felt so sorry for that poor guy in class. I could practically see pain radiating off him in waves. Mine is better today; I took a pill and was able to go to work, at least.