First and foremost, thank you to everyone who left comments on my last post and for the emails and IMs!!! Everything said was soooo helpful!! This is a BIG decision and I only have 6 days to decide so it was nice to get input. THANK YOU!!! 
One particular thing said by Emily really touched home with me, “Crying doesn’t make you weak; it makes you human.” That’s something I need to remember.
Today, in an attempt to figure things out, I met with the Director of the Dig. Comm Dept. It was encouraging AND discouraging all rolled up into one! Oh boy – what a trip. Ok so the bad news is apparently this is a brand new program and as such they have no support staff, no internships, and no clue. The good news is that BECAUSE this is a brand new program I can turn it into whatever I would like. CC+4’s encouraging words were, “Sounds like you’re going to have to be your own Pioneer. All the great ones are. No worries. You are the one who is going to make your career not the classes at school.” He’s right. And I guess great minds think alike because I had already discussed with the Director which classes outside of the department I would like to take AND the possibility of my heading up a committee or club for the department. lol. A nerdy, social butterfly pioneer. Hmm … I guess it could be worse.
In social butterfly news – Captain Charisma wants to catch-up tomorrow. And then I’m supposed to catch-up with the Ultimate D.B. on Friday (though FM says it doesn’t matter how much UDB tries – he shouldn’t get another chance – we’ll see…) Sunday I’ve been invited to a couple parties. Oh and today, besides playing Dr. Phil to some girl he had a crush on during a short cruise over a month ago, (poor CC+4 – he can’t seem to get rid of me) CC+4 put me on to the song “Hot Thing” by Talib Kweli – it’s hot.
In nerdy news - tonight – instead of watching TV like normal people do – I took Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels in History and cross referenced it with Radcliffe’s Top 100 Novels in History. By assigning numerical values to each list I discovered the Top 30 Great Novels in History (the lists only had 44 in common and the last 14 weren’t ranked particularly high.) SO – yeah – fascinating isn’t it? Oh wait …
FYI – I plan on reading all 30 – or re-reading as the case will be with a few of them. Here’s the list for my fellow readers – ordered according to ranking:
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Have a happy day! I haven’t forgotten about pics for SYTYCD – I’ll try and get to that tomorrow.
2 Comments
February 25, 2009 at 1:14 am
Awesome list. I’m currently reading To the Lighthouse by Woolf. It’s a pretty good book once you get past the weirdness of stream of consciousness.
February 27, 2009 at 11:13 am
I’m reading #12 right now and so far…not impressed – not to mention that I hate #13 – Maybe we should consult and make our own top 30