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Went to see Hellboy II on Wednesday, it was ok. Didn't quite live up to what I was expecting though the art in it was very pretty. 

Last night I was pleasantly surprised as my boy had won free movie passes so had picked up tickets to the midnight screening of Batman: The Dark Night. All I can say is WOW!!!!!!! It is freakin' amazing! Only warning I have to say is that it is most definately not a child friendly movie...hell probably shouldn't even be PG rated but beyond that it was awesome!

 
"The Big Read (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/) reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - ok only 1/2 the series as I can't seem to ever get my ha
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Have read parts; also plan on reading other major religious texts someday
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - 
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -I might have read it I don't remember
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - 
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - 
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- read this one way back when I was still a wee young innocent thing in gr. 3.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - I wore this book out.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

Today's my last day at NAIT and I'm conflicted about how I feel. A part of me is thrilled to be finally done, graduating and able to get out in the real world...especially since I have an interview in my field Monday as well as a part time position lined up already. A large part of me though is really going to miss NAIT... the last two years have been kind of my own bubble world that's been surrounded by a large safety net of school. I'm going to miss the instructiors and staff,as zanny as they all are, the program itself as much stressed as it caused me it was still amazing and oddly enough I'm going to miss the people too even though I couldn't wait to not deal with them anymore I'm going to miss them. The atmosphere here most of the time was great. 

I'm finishing up my last project and it's sad... I really am going to miss all of this. A part of me isn't sure I'm ready to 'grow-up' and rejoin the working world... it's the same part of me that's not sure that I have the skills and knowledge and talent required to be successful in photography despite the last two years of training. Work experience kinda of made that hit home for me, that despite the two years here at NAIT, I'm still not that great... I'm still not there technically... *shrugs* I don't know.

On the other hand though, I know I've got the skills ingrained into me and that I'll do fine. Just grad jitters I guess.

Anyways I'm off to write my last final. 

More updates after I find out about the job(s).

Crystal

The most important lesson I learned at NAIT was not through my instructors, my classes or even my assignments. No it was tonight while shooting for a potentially repeat high paying client....


Always make sure your batteries are charged BEFORE shooting for a client. 

So anyways I learned this the hard way when my batteries both died 10 minutes into a 3 hr photoshoot for this client. On the plus side he's pretty laid back and understanding so he hasn't fired me yet...