Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

So my amazing and wonderfully awesome professor, affectionately (and sometimes by some not so affectionately) known as Dr. T. gave me her copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PPZ). She informed after I read I can keep it, and encouraged me to pass it on. Which I plan to do, but only after making her sign it. After I read it I will sign it and pass it on, asking the person I give it to to pass it on and sign it and so on. I wrote the link to my blog in it and I encourage people to get on and post about it. I'm actually very curious to see were the book ends up.

Any way, class is getting ready to start and I have to go, but I'll write more later, probably. :D

The New Mystery Science Theatre 3000

I love Twitter. I loved it even more on the opening night of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

It was just so much fun sitting there watching the Opening Ceremonies all by myself (ok the BF was there...) and yet at the same time watching it with a roomful of other people.

I thought the opening ceremonies was actually quiet good in my opinion. I throughly enjoyed it. But with all things, there is always a few kinks that happen. And watching other people make fun of the same things that you were just thinking is slightly surreal but highly entertaining..

There is definitely a sense of community that comes from "talking" about a common event with people, even if I've never met them.

Which is something so unique about all forms of social media. It is what makes things like Twitter and Facebook work. We are social creatures. We crave connections with other human beings. And in a world that we increasingly don't know who is next door to us, we make those connections with the person around the world from us.

Reading

Sometimes I think i like to read to much. I am currently working my way through..... 4-5 books simultaneously. One is for pleasure only. The rest are for school with varying degrees of pleasure involved.

Freakonomics- easy read, relatively pleasurable, but nothing extremely "OH! that makes sense or is new to me." about it. Actually a little disappointed in it the more I read. I mean is this the state of our society that such basic truths seem revolutionary to the populace?

Medea/One hundred years of solitude- Medea= KILL ME NOW! how many times must i read this during the course of my education? One hundred years of solitude = jury is out.

Tipping point- Definitely much more interesting and insightful than Freakonomics there is actually some really cool info that I will more than likely end up using in y future career so that assuredly adds to the enjoyment value.

I fee that there is another book that i am supposed to be reading for school (that is you know, not a text book, I don't count those) but the sound of the coffee grinder in the background completely made me lose my train of thought.