It was raining all day and my backpack leaked…now my autographed, personalized advanced copy of The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer is ruined and the copy of The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller, which SQT sent me is almost in little pieces from the water damage. I’m absolutely livid…literally, my entire week has just gone to crap…I’d curse right now, but this isn’t that kind of blog…
GAH!
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Sometime near the end of the Spring semester, I decided it was time to take another crack and reorganizing my life. I’ve gone through years of on again / off again burnout, some of it my own fault (I’m disorganized and try to do too much) and some of it a consequence of things about which I have no control (my former university essentially bankrupted itself, forcing me to find a new job in my field, and I’ve since moved twice — the short version). All that burnout and overfilled plate-ism has made it harder to keep up with grading and find the energy to complete tasks on time. So it seemed only logical to use my university library privileges to borrow a variety of recommend productivity and project management books to see what advice, systems, etc. are out there.
Why would someone make a list of important and interesting works of dystopian fiction? Or a suggested reading list of works that are relevant to those dystopian works? There is absolutely no reason other than raw interest. There’s nothing going on to compel this. There is nothing in particular one making such a list would hope you’d learn. The lists below are not an exhaustive list. There are bound to be texts I have forgotten or texts you think folks should read that are not listed. Feel free to make your own list and tell me about it OR leave a comment. I’ll add things I’ve missed! Anywhoodles. Here goes:
And so it came to pass that I finished up my annual Best of EDM [Insert Year Here] lists. I used to do these on Spotify before switching to Tidal, and I continued doing them on Tidal because I listen to an absurd amount of EDM and like keeping track of the tunes I love the most. Below, you will find a Tidal playlist that should be public. You can listen to the first 50 tracks right here, but the full playlist is available on Tidal proper (which has a free version just like Spotify does). For whatever reason, the embedded playlist breaks the page, and so I’ve opted to link to it here and at the bottom of this post. Embeds are weird. Or you can pull songs into your preferred listening app. It’s up to you. Some caveats before we begin:
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BUT You also got into the Sci Fi class today! 🙂
Yeah, but that signed book was really important to me :(. She personalized it for me! it’s not like a “oh hey, thanks for reading, signed me”, it was a real little note in it and now the book is ruined :(. I’m so upset. It’s not just the whole book is ruined, it’s partly because they are important books…I hate ruining books to begin with…
Sweet on on Sci-fi class! Sad on the book …
Hmm … I believe I mentioned my brother is a huger reader. He recently sent my mom & I “The Secret” which is about The Law of Attraction. You’ll find lots on it when ya google it … anyhow, however crazy or cheesy it sounds I’ve seen it work in my life before I even heard about.
Be passionate that you’ll receive another signed copy in time. It’ll happen.
K- there’s my over the top faith but it doesn’t hurt anything to remain positive *Smiles*
Well, I’m always passionate about reading and writing :P. Which is exactly why I’m going to go do some writing.