The Plaid Pladd

The blog-worthy thing I was planning on doing today kind of fell through when, among other things, I had to spend way longer than expected at the post office. And not the fun Carrboro post office where everyone loves Mark Twain and teaches you dance moves while you wait in line. The Cary post office, where everyone’s annoyed and won’t stop talking about rising crime rates. But our new place isn’t all bad! Here are some good things about it! Or, at least, new things!

1. This park

Not pictured: the pedal boats

There’s this park near my house with lots of hiking trails that are really pretty!

In Carrboro this would have been a frisbee golf course, but whatever

2. Fireplace!

Complete with fun wedding pictures on the mantel!

3. Display Case!

So far I’m using it to keep my tea sets and other cool things

4. Bluebell!

Okay, this is more of a recent development for all of North Carolina, but still

Still don’t have them at either Harris Teeter or Food Lion. We finally found these at Walgreens.

5. New Book Case!

It was too small for any one section, so we decided to stock it with everything we had to read for school at some point

Mine is the top shelf and Steven has the other two. He’s a hoarder. I arranged my shelf in chronological order. Here are the titles if you’re curious:

High School
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Othello by Shakespeare
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Miss Julie and Other Plays by August Strindberg
Four major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt

College
Contemporary Creative Nonficiton: I & Eye by B Minh Nguyen and Porter Shreve
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A. L. Kennedy
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

Grad School
The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Mortified: Love is a Battlefield by David Nadelberg

I only kept ones that I actually liked or felt I needed to own for some reason. Like Twilight. Of course I hate it (and love to hate it), but how will I cite quotes illustrating my hate unless I own a copy?