MARCH 12, 2002

Today is the day to work on your free throw.

I have received some criticism lately from people who think I cop out by using quotes and ideas of others for this diary page, and to them I say: you try doing it, jerk. Anyway...don't let that deter you for sending me stuff (hint hint.) Sometimes the thoughts in this head here are just too dark and tormented to share with mere mortals.

One thing I like in life are schedules and patterns. I always hated the first few days of college because you couldn't tell what was going on. "Can I shower now or do we have to go register?" "Can I go to the gym now or are we going to a party?" "Can I put my stuff here or are we switching rooms?" And so on. And so today I deem Tuesdays to be List Days. Original? No. Easy? Yes. It's a pattern and I'm going to stick to it with extreme stick-to-it-ive-ness.

Unlike some other sites that will not accept your lists, or tell you that the list format is 'played,' I won't. Unless your list is "Reasons Why Claire Bites the Big One," I'll take it.

That's ok. I know you won't give me any anyway.

So here's today's list:

"Books on My Shelf I Have Not Yet Read"

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls ("For God's Sake, Do Something!"): Ernest A. Ball, circa 1910
Dear Writer, Dear Actress-Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper: Jean Benedetti, ed.
Pindeldyboz Vol. 1: Jeff Boison and Whitney Pastorek, ed.
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine: Laurinda S. Dixon
Crescendo!: Francesco Italiano
Aspects of the Novel: E.M. Forster
The Longest Journey: E.M. Forster
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
The Dream Book: Gillian Kemp
The Armada: Garett Mattingly
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Christiane Northrup, M.D.
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: Neal Pollack
The Joy of Cooking: Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker
Day & Night at Second City: Bernard Sahlins
The Pilates Body: Brooke Siler
Galileo's Daughter: Dava Sobel
The Agony and the Ecstacy: Irving Stone

So what has this taught you? That I'm not so good on reading historical-type books, that I haven't read some of the classics, that my lesser-known works of E.M. Forster are also lesser-known by me, and that some hobbies, like dream interpretation, cooking, Italian, and physical fitness have fallen by the wayside. Oh well.