Stolen from luxlunae and guinevere33 :

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

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Finally back in town and ready for third year...orientation started this morning, surgery starts on Thursday.

If anyone's interested:

• Alaska Pictures


• Shenandoah Pictures

There seems to be a problem with sending mail using g-mail from a SMTP client.  The mail lists as sent and appears in the sent items folder in the web interface but does not reach the recipient.  Several other people have mentioned similar problems today (and there are probably a lot more since there are no error messages associated with the bug), so if you have any important mail that needs to get through, use the web interface.

Edit: Overnight, they apparently fixed the problem. Back to normal.

Why am I not surprised that this story was focused around Pomona?

(Can you tell I'm done with finals--now if it weren't for those pesky boards...)

I apparently don't visit the big cities and sites in Europe since I've been pretty much everywhere in western Europe, but it all tends to be rural.  Hrmm...

1. Times Square, New York City, NY: 35 million visitors every year
2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. (Washington Monument, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the war memorials): About 25 million
3. Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.: 16.6 million
4. Trafalgar Square, London, England: 15 million
5. Disneyland Park, Anaheim, Calif.: 14.7 million
6. Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York: 14 million
7. Fisherman’s Wharf/Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.: 13 million
8. Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea, Tokyo, Japan: 12.9 million
9. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France: 12 million
10. Disneyland Paris, Marne-La-Vallee, France: 10.6 million
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If one more person tells me that the shooting at V-Tech today proves why we need more guns, I think I'm going to lose it.  The 2nd amendment freaks are saying that college campuses are gun free zones so that's why they're targeted and if more students had guns fewer people would have died.  Of course that makes sense.  Having 25,000 students shooting with guns is much better than having one person shooting with guns.  Silly me.

Guns are bad.  Period.  The end.

I finally got around to posting some pictures from Burkina.  You can check them out here if you're interested!

Hehe--my mom figured out I'm famous.  Or something.  Check out the AllRecipes homepage.  And there I am.  Weird.

This. Is. Insane. Because god forbid that anyone threaten our god-given right to hunt prairie dogs with an Uzi.

'Terrorist' Remark Puts Outdoorsman's Career in Jeopardy

That was a weird mass.  We go to the monthly young adult mass at Holy Trinity, which is small and relatively informal.  The priests make an effort to give homilies on topics that we can relate to, which is nice.  We especially like the newest priest at Trinity, Fr. Kevin, who is a lawyer who decided to become a priest, and is smart and engaging, and a lot of fun.  Anyway, we get to the homily, and Fr. Kevin starts to make a big point, and right in the middle of it, *BRING, FLASH, DING DING DING*.  The fire alarm goes off.  Everyone kind of looks around.  Fr. Kevin says that he needs a key to turn it off and runs to go get it.  He comes back a couple minutes later, and says, "Well, we don't SEE a fire, so, um, if you want to go outside I guess you can, or you can stay here.  I need to go figure out what's going on."  Everyone looks around again.  Shrugs.  Start conversing.  The choir/musicians decide they want to play a song.  I suggested "Send Down the Fires."  That was shot down in favor of "Be Not Afraid."  Go figure.  Fr. Kevin comes back with another key which still won't turn the fire alarm off.  Julia walks up to me, "Am I the only person who actually worries that when a fire alarm goes off, there might actually be a fire?"  I look around.  "Yup, looks like it."  Eventually, when no one could figure out how to turn the alarm off, we moved from the chapel to the main church and finished mass there (Fr. Kevin offered to skip over his homily, but it continued by popular acclamation).  To the sound of fire trucks rushing to the scene and the fire alarm turning off and on in the building next door.  Anyway, a very strange mass.