My Little Corner

So I haven’t posted in a while. Not much exciting in my life. Lots of school stuff. Went to the ‘rents’ for Thanksgiving. Had a final. Supposed to be studying for another one now. Saw Harry Potter (twice) and got to hang out with Jamie. Okay so those were exciting. I think I need some famous friends. I only have regular friends and "famous people are just more interesting." Okay I really need to study and clearly I have nothing to post about. Perhaps when I’m freeeeeeee (last final tomorrow, then 2 more days of work, then freeeeeee) I’ll have something interesting to post about. And won’t be worried about RMS values and fundamental frequencies and such. Out.

p.s. I think I finally learned how to set up links! I rule!

Okay, I admit it. I’m a Kitchen Nazi. I have aknowledged this and have accepted this.
Let me explain…(no there is too much, let me sum up—–name the movie!)
My kitchen has to be clean. If there are bits of food stuck to the sink, no matter what, I will scrub until the sink is spotless. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the middle of the night or if I have just walked in the door and am still in my clinic clothes. Bits of food stuck to the sink: not acceptable. When the bananas that have been in the fridge for as long as I can remember turn black, I throw them in the trash. When the coffee pot has been rinsed but was set up-right to dry, I will rewash the coffee pot and put it back in the draining rack, upside down so all of the water drains out of it. When there is a coffee mug sitting on the counter, I rinse it and put it in the dishwasher.
Now, you might say that some of these things are not bad and not Kitchen Nazi-esque (the bananas–gross). But I must confess more. I have, next to the coffee pot, a very cute, red, Fiesta Ware cream and sugar set. The sugar container has a little top while the creamer does not. If I walk in to the kitchen and the top is on the creamer instead of the sugar, I have to put it back on the sugar. Every time. Freakish and not normal. And I’m okay with that because in my mind, the top goes on the sugar and not on the creamer. If dishes are put into the dishwasher without having been rinsed, I will take them out of the dishwasher, rinse them, and put them back in the dishwasher. If the arrangement of the dishes is not logical to me, I will rearrange all of them. (you load from the back to the front, and you do not put all of the silverware in one compartment of the basket). I clean the counters, sink, and stove top probably every third time that I go in to the kitchen. I am a Kitchen Nazi.
These are just a few examples (and granted they have all happened, some more frequently than others). The ironic thing about this is: I hate to cook. I get no joy from cooking a meal. I love to eat but don’t like to cook it. If I could marry someone who loved to cook, I would clean the kitchen every single night after dinner.
I’m not sure how many people actually read this but a warning to any future roommates: keep the kitchen clean and tidy and I will not secretly hate you each time I wipe up peanut butter off of the floor.

or book store. I was talking with my cool cousin Jamie about our favorite books of all time (keep an eye out for her Top Ten List on her blog). I love to read. There are books that I read growing up that I think really had an impact on me. “When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.” My bedtime stories were The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit. I loved to play Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn with my best friend Jennifer because of my kid’s versions of the books. Then school made me read great things like Fahrenheit 451, Sherlock Holmes, and Much Ado About Nothing. And some “classics” that I thought weren’t so great. I was able to explore authors that I still enjoy: Michael Crichton, Amy Tan, Agatha Christie (Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None, was my first and is still favorite) and yes J.K. Rowling (no joke, in my senior AP English class we read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”). In college, I discovered the world of Bridget Jones–and how everything in life can relate back to Bridget Jones!–and “chick lit.” Recently I finished Pride and Prejudice and LOVED IT! Adventure books are great too; I remember reading a book called “Death Watch” and thinking about it for days and days after. I finished my first Clive Cussler and want more Kurt Austin adventures!
oh, I love books. I love finding new books and I love rereading old ones.

p.s. name the two movie quotes!