5.

You know who the worst kind of people to have to endure a conversation with are? People who make bad jokes one after the other the entire time so that by the time you manage to get away, your cheeks ache from fake-laughing the entire time, and you're thinking the whole conversation 'Was that a joke again? Do I have to laugh? Am I being believeable so I don't hurt their feelings?' So painful!

4.

I find it sad how if you Google the name of a book that's been made into a movie, the majority of the time its IMDb page will be listed before its Amazon one. What irritates me most, though, is how people feel the need to cash in on practically EVERY popular book by making a movie out of it and thereby ruining its original form. So many people, especially children, will probably just see the movie and feel as if they shouldn't bother to read the book having done so. This stems from my irritation at the Harry Potter movies, which I feel are utter crap (I adore the books). I understand that it's difficult to make a movie exactly the same as a book or to include all its facets and plot points, but FOR GOD'S SAKE,
Daniel Radcliffe could at least dye his goddamn hair BLACK. They ensure that all the Griffindors' classes are with the Slytherins', don't bother to have the wizarding population dressed in robes and it's apparantly perfectly acceptable for the movie's namesake to look nothing like he's meant to. The films should have a disclaimer reading: 'inspired by the books'. But I digress into geekdom.
I just think that this is a sad reflection upon society that novels are being simplified into movies constantly and as such develop the potential of losing their initial entertainment value. People are just getting fucking stupider. I've made it my goal to at least try to read the book before I see the movie, unless I'm completely uninterested.
/rant

3.

My favourite book sites:

• Amazon.com - because after you've checked 'I own it' on books & rated them or added books to your wishlist (which is also handy for keeping track of what you want to read), it recommends books to you based on what you've shown interest in.
• BookMooch - I've sent two or three of my books away so far and have gotten one - I'm also waiting on one. All you have to do is pay for the postage of yours, and the further away you send, the more points you receive to 'mooch' books from others.
• Shelfari - lets you keep lists of what you've read, are reading and plan to read. You can also read others' reviews or rate and review yourself. I'm a bit obsessive with list-keeping, I've noticed in writing this post, but as I hate to be without a book, having a list of books I've already given the nod to is really useful.
• What Should I Read Next - can do the same kind of thing as Amazon's 'recommended for you' except instead of basing they recommendations of a wide and somewhat inspecific range of products, you enter the name of a book you've liked and it gives you a list of other books you might enjoy, as well as the links to their pages on Amazon.
• Whichbook - lets you choose what kind of 'mood' of book you're looking for (e.g. 'happy' or more 'sad? 'no sex' or 'sex'?) and then gives you a list based on your choices. You can also choose based on location, main character or plot.

Also, the library service in my city has a database of its books online - I'm able to search for them and request them to be transferred to my local library for me to pick it up. It makes borrowing so much easier - they shelve them in a special area with my name on a slip inside :3. Definitely check out if your library service does likewise. I use the above lists to find what I want to request!

2.

If I could have a superpower, I would want invisibility. And to be able to have the things I touch when I'm invisible become invisible also, and then I would steal so many things. I'd also sneak into people's houses and watch them; listen to their conversations and study their relationships and habits. It would make everything so easy. What I'd really want is to be able to stop time, but that would make things too easy and I think I'd go insane eventually. I hate time enough as it is; I don't think I'd really want it to go for any longer at all.

I'm looking at books on Amazon and some are about the psychology or the 'science' of love and all to do with chemicals and hormones. I don't like love being seen that way, it ruins the beauty and mystery of it.

1.

What I wish, is that I had the opportunity to make some number of foods calorie-free. I like to play this game with myself when I'm trying to get to sleep: if I could make ten foods calorie-free, what would I choose? Of course, there is confusion: can I choose only specific foods, such as caramel slices, or can I choose 'caramel'? In any case, disregarding any such rules, I think they might be:

1. Caramel
2. Chocolate cake
3. Cheesecake
4. Chocolate (one I think is too general - so perhaps Snickers?)
5. Milk
   
6. Cheese
7. Fudge
8. Potatoes
9. Ice cream and frozen yoghurt (perhaps cheating)
10. Pizza
11. Hamburgers
12. Bread
13. Biscuits
    

Yes, I went to thirteen. Which is a slightly depressing outlook on my life, really. I just wish everything were free of calories. It would make me a hermit, though. All I would do would be to sit at home eating.

I began reading 'Girl, Interrupted' today. It makes me want to go and live in a mental institution. I don't know what that means.