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Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Skip the instrumental-only pieces (non-English too if you want).
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and title correctly. (If it's a cover, the original artist is okay, and vice-versa.)
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like this game, post your own!

1. One day you'll see her and you'll know what I mean. Take her or leave her, she'll still be the same.
2. Now I left her in the mountains in the golden summer time and I told her not to worry little darlin' girl of mine.
3. In the twilight lo I see (song title).
4. Oh it's no nae never, no nae never no more will I play the (song title), no nae never no more.book_worm5 
5. Hey kids, shake it loose together the spotlight's hitting something that's been known to change the weather
6. They came from near, they came from far, following a distant star to where he lay
7. There's something happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear.  by brighteyed_jill 
8. I skipped this one because the lyrics were basically the song title, aside from the doo wahs. (It was It don't mean a thing sung by Nina Simone)
9. Like wild geese we all have flown those ancient lands we once called home. by brighteyed_jill 
10. Listen to me I have beautiful dreams I can spin you, dreams to linger within you. by brighteyed_jill 
11. (Song title) your heart and see where it might take you.
12. You can go a lifetime without finding any words.
13. Tell you little story and it won't take long about a lazy farmer who wouldn't hoe his corn
14. Gone, it's hard for me to see when I'm wrong
15. Got a (title) when it blew a kiss across my face
16. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust that's what has become of our love and trust
17. Sad sad sad (song title) Sad sad sad (song title). What breaks your heart?
18. Sitting here out in the boring room, it's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
19. How long have I waited for this moment that comes and it can't last long enough?
20. I ain't go no home, ain't got no shoes, ain't got no money, ain't got no class
21. One, two princes kneel before you... by brighteyed_jill 
22. I remember days full of restlessness and fury, I remember nights that were drunk on dreams. by brighteyed_jill 
23. I won't run when the sky turns to flame and I sure won't budge when the earth does shake
24. Come with me, my love, to the sea, the (song title), I wanna tell you how much I love you by brighteyed_jill 
25. It ain't no joke I'd like to buy the world a toke by brighteyed_jill 
26. Rain rain on my face, hasn't stopped raining for days by brighteyed_jill 
27. (Title) negli occhi suoi spuntò... quelle festose giovani invidiar sembrò..
28. (Song title) Down at the mardi gras (song title) in your daddy's car. You were the missing link, I had a little too much to drink
29. When you think you've got so far to go, you know you're facing all alone, when you wonder if you'll ever see what's good again...
30. An empty cup of coffee, no cigarettes to smoke, a dirty two room walk in flat a long way from my home.

One of my favorite things to do in a bookshop while browsing is to silently revel whenever I encounter a book that I've read. So when I saw this meme...

Bold the ones you’ve read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you’ve read part of, and no cheating. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn’t count. Abridged versions don’t count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you’ve read 7 of these, you are above the average.

Total Completely Read:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I've only read the "And Zombies" version)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (and I read it while working on a ship - maybe not a good idea)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante (Although I really don't remember much from 10th grade lit class)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I'm going to go ahead and count this, even though it was an abridged version)

Hmm... not as good as I thought.  I'm going to have to get cracking.  And why is my space bar not working very well?

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Bill Walsh's charmingly titled book Lapsing into a Coma (Walsh is a copy desk chief at The Washington Post) explains that while many American newspapers prefer "Connors' forehand", his own preference is for "Connor's forehand"- "and I'm happy to be working for a newspaper that feels the same way I do."

Well, is anyone really surprised that the closest book at hand is a book about punctuation?  I am an English teacher, after all.

You know - that almost didn't work.  There were only four-and-a-half sentences on page 56.

So I've been thinking...

When I was really active in the HP fandom, one of my favorite ways of finding fic was through a theme list, namely the ones by painless_j. They were great - if I read a fic that I loved, I could find one with a similar theme/plot device. Every other list that I had read prior to that listed fic by pairings. Since I love most pairings, this didn't really help much.

So, I was wondering... does such a thing exist in the TOS/AOS/nu!trek fandom? If so, where can I find it? If not, who is willing to help me figure out how to do it? I'd love to find a list of Tarsus fics, fatherly!Pike and/or mentor!Pike fics, de-aging fics, childhood of a character fics, nu!Trek Sarek/Amanda novels, and lots more.

As for the figuring out how to do it, there are two problems. 1) Technology hates me and (I hate to admit it)g 2) I am lazy. Anyone want to help with tech support and motivation?

I used to work on a ship. Obviously it wasn't a starship, it was just a cruise line. But you know, we had at least one evacuation drill every cruise. The different departments (bridge, engineering, medical, security, etc.) also had at least one specialized drill every cruise. Crew was exercised for fire, medical emergencies, listing (when the ship tilts unexepectedly), man overboard, piracy, and a huge number of other things. It is was done every couple of weeks. Even the passengers had an orientation that detailed how they would evacuate in the case of an emergency.

With that in mind, I wonder how on earth, or rather in the universe, anyone on a starship could ever get bored while on duty. I see many writers talking about all the sitting around the crew has to do. I worked on a CRUISE Ship and a TEACHER, and I had to do crew training all the time. My ex was an engineer and he worked 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week - and was constantly busy fixing things. And this was in a department of 300. Do you see what I'm getting at? On a military/exploratory ship like the Enterprise that is constantly being attacked, there would be no boredom on the bridge, in sick bay, or in engineering. Granted, when people were off shift, they were really OFF. But when on duty, everyone stays busy. There would be drills for any number of scenarios to practice (and create). There would always be something to fix. There would always be a change of schedule to fix, personnel problems to manage, supplies to order, load, unload, evaluate. Experiments running constantly, mapping to do, mapping to correct. On and on.

And now I'm finished.

I recently found a SpockPrime/T'Pol fic. While I didn't really enjoy the fic that much (just not in the mood at the time, not because of the style), I thought it was a great idea for a nu!Trek het pairing. Anyone know of any?

Does anyone post ST:Reboot fic outside of LJ and DW? It occured to me today that there might be some fic on skyehawke (there is, but only a little). I've looked at ff.net - but that site is blocked at work and really has a lot of bad fic to wade through. I've tried doing google searches, but that results in insane amounts of fic, some good, much bad, some Reboot, a lot of TOS (not really my bag, unless I can mentally insert the reboot cast) as well as the random link to completely unrelated crap. I just suspect that this fandom is bigger than I"m seeing and I'd like to know where I can get more.

So. Star Truck. Hmm...

1. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name) Marie Daehyun (Not my street name - my apartment name, because Korea doesn't do street names)

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy) Betty Twizzlers

3. YOUR RAP NAME: (first initial of first name, first three or four letters of your last name):J. McC

4. YOUR GAMER TAG: (a favorite color, a favorite animal) Grassy Knoll Tarsir (Target has the greatest names for colors)

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Marie Butler

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name) McC'Sch'Mol (Yikes)

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards) Eiram Renffahcs

8. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet's name, the street you grew up on)? Goldie Shannon (Guess what my first pet was)

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile your mom drives) The Green Caravan (Bleurgh)

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME: (first name of a main character in the last movie you watched, last food you ate) Coraline Pesto