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Favorite authorsYoshitaka Amano, Wilhelmina Baird, Nick Bantock, Alfred Bester, Jorge Luis Borges, Buddha, Nichiren Daishonin, Liza Crihfield Dalby, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Neil Gaiman, Aldous Huxley, Daisaku Ikeda, Franz Kafka, Eric A. Meyer, Rand Miller, Haruki Murakami, Jeff Noon, Philip Pullman, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Rudy Rucker, Carl Sagan, E. E. Smith, Dave Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, Burton Watson, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBlackwell Oxford, Blackwell University Bookshop Brookes, Dalton's Books, Dymocks Books, Electric Shadows Bookshop, Galaxy Bookshop, Gilbert\'s Books, Impact Comics!, Oxford University Press Bookshop, Powell's City of Books, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, Waterstone's Oxford

Favorite librariesAustralian National University (J.B. Chifley Library)

About meFor someone that loves rain and fog, I sure picked the wrong place to live. I was supposed to end up on the dreariest coast imaginable where no one comes to experience the biting cold and zero visibility. But no! I ended up not on a solitary soggy beach, but in a city in Australia. This is the opposite of rain and fog!

It's not quite exactly my fault though, you see. There was this mathematician... and well... he more than makes up for the craptacular sunny weather. I'll endure the endless bottles of spf 100+, the need for near-black sunglasses and sun hats for a while longer though. Hopefully not too much longer or else love really will make me BLIND. Too much sun! Hisssssss!

I'm a student in Psychology, so that occupies a lot of my time (wait for the groan from any other students nearby looking at their current work loads) preventing me from fully complaining about the bright orange pain orb in the sky (and to think, someday I'll be helping people with THEIR neuroses! HAHAHAHAHA!)

The other part of my time is devoted to stuffed animals. I have... a few... now... and I ravenously collect a specific brand of stuffed animals like a squirrel gathering nuts for winter. I also get a new animal whenever I go somewhere new. Appropriate, don't you think? New place, new animal... oh yeah, makes sense to me. I have favourites, but I can't say that too loudly, or else the rest of them will hear and then they'll feel bad, and I just can't afford group therapy for all of them. Have you seen the going rates nowadays?! Having even 1/4 of them hear me say that would break the bank in therapy costs...not that the financial crises need any help breaking the banks! One of my current favs is 'Huggy' the stuffed Koala backpack. Currently he's going out and about with me wherever I go.

The last part of my time is of course devoted to reading and writing. I think I'm getting pickier in the new books that I buy to read for fun though. I've noticed that I have next-to-no patience for a great many of the published science fiction books that I've been checking out lately. If I roll my eyes on the first page, it's not coming home with me. The amount of science fiction that has come home with me lately is nil. A simple google search would show some of these authors that their technological/scientific knowledge is *snirk* lacking *snirk*, to be polite.

Of course, there are always more fun morbid accounts of abnormal psychology to read, so honestly, is there anything that can really top gobsmacking human behaviour?

About my libraryWell, in an effort to simplify my life, my library is taking a beating. I have been dumping books that I can't stand, books I really don't ever want to read again, and books where I have just lost interest.

Let's see here, since I've gone to vegan / raw vegan... I've dumped most of my vegetarian cookbooks, and even some of the other regional cookbooks as well. What I have left (and it is growing by raw recipes heaps and bounds), can be found by clicking on the inappropriately named: Cooking Collection.

Also, since I'm no longer researching Pagan and Wiccan structures, all of those books have gone to my Wiccan aunt, who lost her library to a horde of mice during a cross-country move. That made her happy and I didn't feel too bad about giving them to someone I knew! So what I have left in this department are all my Buddhist books, which can be found under Buddhism.

And that brings me to my subject of study, psychology. I'm in the midst of redoing my personal reference and textbook library, so this is looking a bit pale and thin -- but nevertheless, here is my bookcase full of Psychology books.

As I was clearing out my storage unit, I discovered that I had book after book that I *truly* couldn't stand and possibly considered hating with a passion. Wouldn't you know it but all of these books were under Science Fiction. Seriously, there were enough in there that I debated just tossing the box onto the street, near a burning fire, or off the pier. But then I came to my senses and recognised that I still had books in there I didn't want smashed, burned, and/or waterlogged. This is what's left of the former shelf-eater: Science Fiction. Now, there are STILL some books in there that need to be flushed down the toi-I mean, given to charity, and I will deal with them once they're out of their new storage unit. *I'm looking at you GIBSON!* Honestly, I don't even know why they call it science fiction anymore, it's not like it has anything close to thoughtful science in it. Why not just call it Technofantasy?

Everything else is either boring, from my childhood, or I can't be bothered to remember right now. Eventually it will all be sorted and cleaned... but at the moment, doing everything a single book at a time, clicking, waiting for it to reload, rinsing, repeating is driving me into user interface design convulsions, and so it may not happen for a while.

One of these days though...

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