Leaving in 3 days, counting today.

I had everything staged to pack in one carry-on suitcase, then my MIL came over with a big Macy's bag of CANDY.  She claims that her family loves chocolate, and that I have to take a huge bag for each of them.  So I now have to:

1. check a full-size suitcase
2. risk having my luggage lost
3. try to explain the presence 10 lb. of candy to customs officials in Vietnamese
4. look like a fat American that lives on peanutbutter bonbons

Why me?

And Jessica says that her aunt told her they don't even really like the candy.

Um, stuff.

I have photos from my trip but it's going to be a couple of days before I can post them.

Parking at school sucks, and I'm going to start taking the bus again.  It took me TWO HOURS to find a space yesterday.
 

I hate the trend of replacing books and study space in the library with computers dedicated to public internet access.  They take up as much as half of the building in some of the local libraries, and the people waiting in line to use them take up most of the rest of it.  There's nowhere to sit down and read or study; for the 10% of patrons who are actually there for the books, the library has become just another place to get in and out of as quickly as possible.  Like Walmart, it's crowded and noisy and there's nowhere to park.

I realize that some people have a legitimate need for free internet access, but there's got to be a better way to do this.  I shouldn't have to give up my enjoyment of the library so some homeless guy can get on myspace.

Ugh!  I'm so bored.  The library is closed and I'm out of books, and I've already been to the pool, and I have nothing to do.
 

Last night at about 11 we were waiting in traffic on 61st and this drunk guy stumbled out in the street and fell over in front of my car.  When I got out to see if he was ok, he got up and stumbled off again, then wandered into the Little Caesar's parking lot and fell over again!  There were some people standing in the parking lot over there, so I didn't give up my space in traffic to see what would happen next.

So much for natural selection.

Since HEB removed their recycling bins, there are only TWO places in the entire city of Houston when you can drop off plastics.  TWO!  The nearest one is about 15 miles away, and not in a direction that I ever go, so I'm going to have to make a special trip later.  It's just stupid.
 

I had a strange dream, really strange.  There was a big ship, but it was also an aquarium store and everywhere I went there were tons of aquariums full of fish.  Then the ship started pitching around a lot, and the water was sloshing out of the aquariums, but nobody else seemed concerned about it.  Then I woke up thinking that I had a chemistry final today and that I needed to be cramming.

A girl at my old job said that when you dream about fish, it means you're pregnant.  That's obviously not the case, so I guess it doesn't mean anything at all, other than perhaps that I ate too many cookies before bed and I have to go to Petco today.

I have to go to the financial aid office today to find out where my summer Stafford loans are.  I hate going over there, because the line is always long and the solutions are complicated.  I was looking forward to being lazy all day.

So for the past month I've been trying to compile a list of books that I frequently recommend, and it's slow going simply because I've read so many books over my lifetime.  I went through several per day as a child (I was sick a lot and didn't have many friends), and still go through several per week.  It's hard to narrow it down to a few favorites.

So my question is, what books do you frequently recommend?