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Jul. 18th, 2005 04:52 pmCurrently Reading:
Harry Potter #6 – The Half-Blood Prince
Collapse, by Jared Diamond
Recent books:
Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt: Loved it!
The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card: BLECH. Terrible, terrible terrible.
Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella: When oh when will I learn not to read these books. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t read them ever again and yet I did read this one again. GAH!
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding: Surprise! I loved this! My favorite things are the Rules for Living, especially number 2
1. Never panic. Stop, breathe, think.
2. No one is thinking about you. They’re thinking about themselves, just like you.
3. Never change haircut or colour before an important event.
4. Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems.
5. Do as you would be done by, e.g., thou shalt not kill.
6. It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like.
7. Hardly anything matters: if you get upset, ask yourself, ‘Does it really matter?’
8. The key to success lies in how you pick yourself up from failure.
9. Be honest and kind.
10. Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance.
11. Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination.
12. When overwhelmed by disaster, check if it’s really a disaster by doing the following: a) think, ‘Oh, Fuck it,’ b) look on the bright side and, if that doesn’t work, look on the funny side. If neither of the above works then maybe it is a disaster so turn to items 1 and 5.
13. Don’t expect the world to be safe or life to be fair.
14. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
15. Any time you make a decision, there wasn’t anything else you could have done because it were who you were, and it was all the things that had happened up to then that made you decide that. So there’s no point regretting anything:’
16. If you do start regretting something and thinking, “I should have done…” always add, “but then I might have been run over by a lorry or blown up by a Japanese-manned torpedo.
Harry Potter #6 – The Half-Blood Prince
Collapse, by Jared Diamond
Recent books:
Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt: Loved it!
The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card: BLECH. Terrible, terrible terrible.
Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella: When oh when will I learn not to read these books. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t read them ever again and yet I did read this one again. GAH!
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding: Surprise! I loved this! My favorite things are the Rules for Living, especially number 2
1. Never panic. Stop, breathe, think.
2. No one is thinking about you. They’re thinking about themselves, just like you.
3. Never change haircut or colour before an important event.
4. Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems.
5. Do as you would be done by, e.g., thou shalt not kill.
6. It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like.
7. Hardly anything matters: if you get upset, ask yourself, ‘Does it really matter?’
8. The key to success lies in how you pick yourself up from failure.
9. Be honest and kind.
10. Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance.
11. Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination.
12. When overwhelmed by disaster, check if it’s really a disaster by doing the following: a) think, ‘Oh, Fuck it,’ b) look on the bright side and, if that doesn’t work, look on the funny side. If neither of the above works then maybe it is a disaster so turn to items 1 and 5.
13. Don’t expect the world to be safe or life to be fair.
14. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
15. Any time you make a decision, there wasn’t anything else you could have done because it were who you were, and it was all the things that had happened up to then that made you decide that. So there’s no point regretting anything:’
16. If you do start regretting something and thinking, “I should have done…” always add, “but then I might have been run over by a lorry or blown up by a Japanese-manned torpedo.
