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Books I
really enjoyed:
Science Fiction
- Dune Series, obviously
- Ender's Game
Series
- Cross-Time Engineer Series
- Lucifer's Hammer
- A Fire Upon the Deep/A Deepness in the
Sky
- Eon/Eternity
- The Anne McCaffrey Pern Series
- The Mercedes Lackey Valdemar Series
- Elizabeth
Moon's Deed of Paksennarion
- Julian May's Surveillance/Metaconcert/Pliocene Exile
- Firestar, but the sequels
were sloooooow
Children's Books
- Homecoming/Dicey's Song
- The Narnia Chronicles
- Harry Potter Series, of course
- The Once and Future King
Mystery Authors worth reading
even though they often don't write about spaceships
- Elizabeth George
- Patricia Cornwell
- Dean
Koontz
SciFivision Shows I Have Obsessed Over: - Doctor Who -- Tom Baker, then John
Pertwee, of course. Not that interested in Docs post-T. Baker, but the new series is growing on me.
- Blake's
7--loved it, and by total coincidence I have ex-step-cousins named "Blake" and "Jenna".
- Babylon
5, especially once Delenn got hair
- Loved the Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in 25th Century, both bionic people
(and dog)
- Can't warm up to the new Battlestar Galactica, sorry! Nor the Stargate series.
- Will watch
(and likely have already seen) almost any silly sci-fi movie that's on except for true horror flicks
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STREAMS
of CONSCIOUSNESS
- Going Bananas
I like 'em at the point most people start thinking about
making banana bread--lovely dark brown leopard spots all over. The only person I know who'll eat a banana I think is overripe
is my Dad. The thing about bananas is, everybody likes them at different ripenesses. (is that a word?) And they're only at
the perfect ripeness for about 1 day, plus or minus a day. So you have three days to eat all 8 bananas in your bunch, and
then you're done.
I like them very ripe, so I can't eat the bananas I bought TODAY, they're not ready! I have
to PLAN your bananas a few days in advance.
It's a good idea not to leave the peel in the car too long, either.
- Mercy Rules
Know what happens when a soccer team that hasn't played Indoor before plays one that
has? We lose, 14-2, and I end up gasping like a fish out of water after 4 minutes in.
- CHARGE!
I'm sorry, I can't talk to you without a charge number.
- Foreign Hands
You can SO ring B and
middle C four-in-hand. It just hurts.
I have accepted Sugar-Free Jell-O as my personal savior
Why doesn't somebody ... oh, wait, that's supposed to be me.
- Better Living through Chemistry
Living with Generalized
Social Anxiety feels like I'm waiting to hear the results of some all-important test, all the time. With medication,
overnight every single stress-management technique started working. Even the most difficult day now is no harder than
a "normal" day was pre-2002.
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