100th Post: Future Reading List

Hello!! I have much I want to read this summer. I figured this is great as the 100th post as many of my posts have been about my reading lists.

Books:
1. Les Mis
2. The Orchard Keeper
3. Outer Dark
4. Child of God 
5. Suttree 
6. Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West 
7. All the Pretty Horses 
8. The Crossing 
9. Cities of the Plain 
10. No Country for Old Men
11. The Road
12. Kentucky BBQ
13. Bailey's Cafe
14. The Hiding Place
15. Beautiful Creatures
16. Beautiful Darkness
17. Beautiful Redemption
18. Beautiful Chaos
19. The Bookman's Tale
20. The War of the Roses
21. The Children of Henry VIII

Suggest away!!!!

-I remember having more on this list....

TV Zombie List

1. Ghost Whisper (All)
2. Grey's Anatomy (Current)
3. Lie to Me (All)
4. Angel (All)
5. Eastwick (All)
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (All)
7. The Cosby Show (All)
8. Frasier (All)
9. Bones (Current)
10. Psych (Current)
11. Doctor Who(Current)
12. The Big Bang Theory (Five Seasons)
13. Hot in Cleveland (Current)
14. Happily Divorced (Current)
15. Crossing Jordan (All)
16. Glee (1st Season, part of 2nd)
17. How I Met Your Mother (Seven Seasons)
18. Reba (All)
19. Charmed (All)
20. Say Yes to the Dress (Five Seasons)
21. Melissa and Joey (two seasons)
22. Monk (All)
23. The Tudors (All)
24. Game of Thrones (Current)
25. Downton Abbey (All)
26. The Finder (All)
27. Hercules (All)
28. SVU (Working on it)
29. Xena (Most)
30. House (All)
31. Voyager (In second season)

Planning to Watch:
- NCIS
-The Sopranos
-Star Trek
-Firefly
-Torchwood
-Alias
-Xena

(Almost) Everything You Need To Know About Me...

Personal Introduction

First off, talking about myself is generally not my favorite thing to do. Or at least I think this, but then I have a Facebook, this blog and I tend to ramble about myself quite a bit so you’ll have to forgive me. Overall, I’m quirky, weird, loving, happy and generally a crazy person to be around. I smile so much that if I’m not people think something is instantly wrong.  I love to read and write. Fiction is my game, and I tried my hand at my first fantasy story and am now turning it into a novel. I have won a few awards in my time for creative writing as well as research writing.  I have four cats (three inside, one out) and three dogs (One is my husbands, and I got an Australian Shepherd this summer. Her name is Arwen! Then we have Deeogee, my hubby's min pin/yorkie) I want people to know that I’m here to help, and I love being able to help others. I try to not care what others think, but I would like to be thought of as organized, friendly and probably a nerd.  If you want to know anything else about me, details of everything and anything can be found on my blog, and a million pictures on Facebook.

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/fallon.willoughby

As to the most basic information, I am 23. I graduated in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and English. I was married for four years on September 13^th, and yes we were young but we have been together for seven years and we’ve done pretty great so far. High school sweethearts for the win! My husband and I live in our home town and are currently renovating our home – it was a tad bit of a fixer upper. I will be beginning my Student Affairs Masters in the Fall. I plan on working for WKU and continuing my education, getting another masters in history or English. I am determined to have a PhD one day or possibly an EDD. I finally figured out this summer that though History is my passion, I need a bit more security with something I’m going forty thousand dollars of debt for.  Currently I work at the LAC on South Campus for WKU as a tutor in English/Math and other random subjects. I love working with the other students, and it dawned on me it could be turned into a career and also get my other degrees paid for. VIOLA! I am a genius. I say it all the time, and it’s finally true (Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). I will begin a different job as a Graduate Assistant in the Fall.

I’m obsessed with the Lord of the Rings and I was at the Hobbit midnight premiere! Ren Faires are some of my favorite things and I recently went to a Jane Austen festival. Pretty much anything involving costumes will grab my attention. I love animals, hanging with my friends, riding horses, reading, and watching an entire series in a short span of time (I watched all seven seasons of Buffy last summer.)  I'm a bit of a TV Zombie. I love Doctor Who.  I'm working on a (too) long list of all the shows I've seen every episode of.  Oh, I LOVE The Big Bang Theory.

If you want to know anything else, see said blog and facebook!

Graduation!!!!

So this has been a pretty awesome weekend.  Friday I overslept. Luckily my hubby called me when he got off work at seven and woke me up. Yay for the hubby!!!! I got ready and left within ten minutes, made it to my final at 8, and was finished by 9.  Then my lovely friend Nikki let me go to her house and take a shower.  She had forgotten she had a lunch that day, so I took her some clothes for that.  It all worked out pretty well :) 

I worked that day, then had lunch with Charles and Cole.  Charles gave me the Atlas of Middle Earth, leather bound, which is one of the coolest presents I have EVER gotten!!!!!! It's beautiful.  While at the lunch, a friend also posted on my facebook about a site his professor runs which involves replicating the journeys from Lord of the Rings, as a way to exercise.  Which is ever so AWESOME!!!

After that, I met my sister, and we hung out at B&N.  Mom came and met us at Outback, where we also met my uncle and aunt from Florida.  It was so much fun to catch up with them and see my family.  I had a small debate rambling about politics, as well as just talking about general stuff. Oh, and I got an awesome drink. After that we went back to Becky's and hung out for a while.

Saturday we got ready and left from Becky's.  Graduation was tons of fun. They ran let getting us out of the side room and into Diddle.  I sat with Laura and TK.  We talked and laughed. I got my fake diploma.  The last lady to talk went on forever and not one single person was listening to her.  I GRADUATED!!!!  My uncle, aunt, mom, brother, brother-in-law, sister, niece, and hubby were all there.  Many of my professors were there too. 

After that we went to Ryan's.  My family was there, as well as my husbands, my bosses, and a few friends.  I had a great time, though I ate too fast and made myself a little sick.  After that my mom, me and my sister hung out at B&N and then went and had massages at Sun Suites.  It felt so incredible.  Mine was a present from my sister and brother-in-law for graduation.  Becky got hers for mother's day and we split mom's for the same reason.  Then we got some pizza and headed to Becky's for dinner.  We watched random youtube videos and talked. 

Then today we hung out, went to eat Greek food, and then shopped a bit. On the way there though my tire blew because apparently at some point I ran over something. There were two cuts in it.  My father-in-law came, sent me on my way with my mom, and got my tire fixed.  It's my happy graduation tire.  Yay!!! Sean and I went to his mom's after I got home and we played a game called Quelf which was .... weird but fun. Now I'm home watching SVU.

I have one grade finally - An A in Southern Literature. Yahoo!!!!

Well, I'm excited. Off to work tomorrow!

I got several presents:

Money: Uncle Butch & Aunt Kathy
Money & Pretty Stones: Mom and David
Diploma Frame: Cole
Money: Jan
Alumni Mug: Kacy
Alumni Shirt: Nikki
Charles: Atlas of Middle-Earth
Money: Tina
Angel for car window and Cool flip flops: Aunt Shawn and Momaw
Massage: Becky and Chris
Purse: Morgan
Her Presence: Heather and Kids

Cards:
David, Tonya, Mom, Momaw & Aunt Shawn, Tina, Charles, Cole, Butch & Kathy, Jan, Nikki Burgett

There's possibly more but my brain is fried.

Fancy Title Goes Here

I haven't blogged in awhile, but I had to tonight. Twas the last night of my Southern Literature class, a class that has inspired several blog posts and a very long list of books to read this summer.  I love this class for the material, the discussions, the new friends I made, and because Dr. Berry is just an awesome teacher.

<-- And this is Dr. Berry:
As you notice - he has food. He wrote a book on KY BBQ, which one of these days I really will buy. Hey, I'm a poor college student.  He said something about drinking beer after class today, and I said something I had been thinking for awhile.  Teachers always talk about how they used to go drinking with their professors (especially in the history department) but none of them do it now. So Dr. Berry invited us all to a drink. After class, me and three others met him at Hilligan's and it was pretty fun!  We discussed classes, writings, and told him how awesome his class was in general. After he left, we hung out talking about literature, school and other such random things. Sadly, this was my first time there.  Ah well. I'm all responsible and crap.

Southern Lit was  my favorite class this semester, so it makes it harder to care about the rest of the week. However, I have my paper in that class to write (10 pages), and I already have all the research and have it read.  I even have it outlined. And topic sentences. And everything. So, my goal tomorrow night is to write that.  As a preview my title is:  "Opposition to Tradition? Bridging History and Culture Differences in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day."

My Modern China class was pretty cool today. Five of us presented the outlines for our papers.  My teacher seemed to like mine. She asked if we liked doing the presentations and we all said we liked the feedback. One girl said she wished we had done it last week so we had more time to work on it. Dr. Du asked us if we would like more time, since more time meant more work.  We were afraid to answer and told her so. So she clarified with "No, no, I wouldn't give you more work! Just more time means you would work more on it." Ah. Then yes. Yes we would. And she extended it from Friday to Monday.  Which is awesomeness. I have 1/16 pages, though I have all my research read and studied.

Phi Alpha Theta's banquet went wonderful. We had a hitch with the food, but it was fixed and peoples got free drinks.  Plus my ex-vice president bought me a drink which was cool. Gotta love free alcohol. We surprised Dr. Sanderfer with flowers and chocolate to thank her for everything she had done. I also talked to Dr. Plummer, my major mentor in all things History. She's so awesome. I hung out with Rachel and Johnny, as I gave them a ride.  Afterwards, Rachel, Anna and I went to Sweet Cici's and got some frozen yogurt.  Friday we had the first annual baseball game, nthanging out more all semester.  Ah, well. 

In other news, I'm pretty sure I announced that I WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE STUDENT AFFAIRS GRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!  How awesome is that?  I also have an interview tomorrow for a GA Position with the Alumni, and then an interview Thursday for another position with South Campus. Yep, it's a busy week.

I hung out with my friend Morgan today and we had fun.  I sometimes wish I had done more than my college career, or finished quicker, or whatever, but then I wouldn't have had the past two semesters, which have been amazing. And I may never have started my novel.  Or met the people I have.  So no matter regrets or wonders I may ever have, I am thankful for every decision that I have made because it's led me to this amazing future I am looking at.  I graduate in less than two weeks.  I have a party I'm looking forward to with friends.  I have family coming down for the day.  I'm getting a massage, I already got fifty dollars, and a frame for my diploma and who knows what else I may get (money, money, money!). This summer we are doing tons to the house, and I'm creating our gaming room to have friends over (as my house is just really tiny).  I just can't wait.  Oh, and I'm joining a gym with my sister.  My hubby and I have started walking together, since with his new promotion (more money!) we are getting to spend more time together. Yep.  Life is great.

Happily Ever After, The End?

Well, I'm hoping my interview went well. I think it did. I'm a terrible judge at these things.  Lord, I want in this master's program so badly that it will kill a part of me if I don't get in.  Wish me luck, please!

I did a silly thing. I wore open toed heels down the hill at WKU.  I killed my big toes. Got two giant blisters, and a cut on another toe, and my feet hated me.  I had to pop them... eeeeehhhh.  I hate doing that. Then I wore closed shoes on Friday, and my one toe royally hates me. So I haven't been able to go walking in a few days because it hurts to wear tennis shoes. I tried. -sighs-  I've done some other stuff to work out though, so that helps.  I could do more.  One step at a time I guess.

I worked on my novel tonight. Wrote about ten pages.  I'm proud of that.  I have around sixty (depending on the font).  I love this story.  I hope I can finish this novel. I want to. So badly. Today I woke up with my ear draining, my back and head hurting, and I wasted the whole day. Last night I actually made two presentations, read 1 article and four short stories.  Ups and doooowns.

Onto my tv zombieness - I finished Private Practice today.  It was a great show.  The end is beautiful.  Actually, the whole last season is. The main characters all get their own episode where it is from their point of view. There is one character who is reading a fairy tale book and it ends with a happily ever after.  She says that it isn't real life and we shouldn't read them to kids. It makes sense, and what she says is truthful, painful, poignant, and real. And the last episode gives everyone a happy ending. Do you know how awesome that is? Pretty dadgum awesome.  I really enjoyed it.  You should watch this show. Really.  It's great :)

Well, I just don't have much tonight.  Laters!

Excitement!!!!!

I know it's been a while since I have blogged, but life has been chaotic. And for once, it's been a happy chaos!  It's Spring!!! How awesome is that?  I'm so excited to be wearing flip flops, tank tops, and capris. It's pretty great.

I got an A on my midterm in Brit Lit, and an A on my midterm in Mythology.  Classes are going great, I have A's in all of them, so school is awesome.  Chaotic, stressed, way too much homework/reading, but it's going pretty well. My last semester. Wow.

I bought red heels and a graduation dress.  I bought a wonderful dress for my banquet and my interview.   We had a family bonfire that was tons of fun. I got to watch the first two episodes of Game of Thrones. My hubby got a promotion at work - he is now full time and a CSM on the third shift.  We'll have evening together, and he is going to exercise with me.

I've been exercising. Walking both dogs.  I want to start yoga in the mornings too.  I want to be healthier - and a tad skinnier.  And toned. Maybe eventually.

Yep. Life is pretty awesome. And it gooooes on :P

My interview is tomorrow at 1:00 pm for admission into the Student Affairs graduate program. I am so nervous excited that it is insane.  Wish me lots of luck.

We read Bitter in the Mouth for class yesterday. It was an wonderful book.  It is a very true growing up story.  Spoilers ahead, but I was looking for something that someone mentioned in class, that I noticed the first part was named "Confessions" and was dated August 3rd 1998, and the second part was "Revelations" and dated August 4th 1998.  Then, in one part she says that they are realized at the end of a journey.  And when she finds out about the death of her uncle in February, she leaves six months later to go home. Which would be in August. So it's her journey. Her journey back home. I know it's crazy but it just seemed really important to me, that I figured that out. I have no idea if its really that big of a deal, but it felt like it at the moment. Dr. Berry pointed out my Historian tendencies about dates. Haha.... it's true.  Darn it.

Anyways, it's a very good book, and you should read it!

I don't have much tonight, and I have a lot more to do. Laters,

Fallon