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Today I will be writing papers (1 down, 1.5 to go!) and baking a cake for my fiance's dad's birthday. Tomorrow we're going to visit.

For sci-fi, I recommend both Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Both are set in the future and they're about time travel, but Doomsday is much more serious than Dog. Both are great reads though and they stand alone.

Oo, yeah, totally agree with you on the twist. It'll be much more fair for everyone, and plus you get those lovely awkward moments where the team has to vote in the board room in front of The Donald on whether to extend this privilege or not. And probably some juicy conflict later. :D

Uh oh Ronny, looks like we're descending into the dark, dank, and mysterious swamps of copyright law. I think that with most images you can find on the internet, using them as avatars might be considered fair use and are therefore ok and legal to use. However, if it's an image that is usually...

YES! That's it! Thank you so much, guys. I went to Amazon.com and listened, and that's it. It's funny because I've never heard of Rupert Holmes before, I must have just picked up the song from somewhere and it stuck.

Motokid: Yay! I'm glad you can have your cake and eat it too like me :D Yeah I really really wanted Trump to boot Melissa out. My fiance was saying that he might not do it, because it's "good" TV to have her still there and causing conflict, but Trump did the right thing. What do you...

I hate it when you know barely ANY words to the song, but the 2 or 3 you actually know stay stuck running in circles in your head. The other night I was having a drink at a restaurant and "Do you like Pina Coladas..." was stuck in there. And that's STILL all I know from the song.

I got the book from the library and going into it I also thought it might be boring, but I ended up reading it in one sitting. I still can't put my finger on why I devoured it so quickly, I think it might have had something to do with Chevalier's writing and how she drew the reader in to...

I highly recommend Ordinary People by Judith Guest. It has all the elements you're looking for. It's about this guy in high school who tried to kill himself after the accidental death of his older brother. He survived his suicide attempt and had to spend a year in a mental institution, and...

This thread makes me wonder why we get so shocked and horrified when kids use swear words. (It's not that I don't! Just musing.) Usually the kids don't really know what they mean, but since adults DO know maybe it bothers us because we think kids are supposed to be innocent? Or is it just...

Another general difference between SciFi and fantasy is that in sci fi, there are very few black-and-white distinctions. Moral questions are wrestled with and often not resolved. Characters are very multifaceted too. And in fantasy, it's often a question of good vs. evil, where characters and...

I think Stephen King said/wrote something like, "Short stories are like a quick kiss from a stranger in the dark; novels are more like a long and satisfying affair." Both have their appeals. But I'm definitely a novel reader.