Quote of the day

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
Kin Hubbard

Mother stories

I'm currently trying to write a short story about a mother/daughter relationship for a short story contest. However, relations with my mother are currently not-so-good, so I don't want to write about myself. If anybody who happens to read this blog (I'm starting to wonder whether people actually do read this blog) has a fun anecdote they would like to share and don't mind me using it, please leave a comment!

Also, I noticed that many blogs poped up recetly about Katrina. I won't talk about Katrina here anymore, it's too de pressing, and there's nothing I can add to the subject that hasn't already been told a million times. If you want to hear more about what's going on, you can go here or here, they have frequent detailed reports.

Jealous of these authors

Outercast e-mailed me today asking me to answer some questions for the autumn issue in which I'll be published. One of the questions was "I'm jealous of these authors..."

The list could be very long. I'm pretty much jealous of any author that gets published and that people enjoy. However, I'm even more jealous of the authors I enjoy, because they are, of course, the best.

Unfortunately, I didn't dare putting all those authors in my list, because it would have been way too long. So, here, in exclusivity, you get the full list :

English language authors

1) JK Rowling (Harry Potter is still a strong number one on my favorite books list!)
2) Meg Cabot (she incidently has the coolest blog ever. Link is on your right)
3) John Grisham
4) Anne Perry
5) Lilian Jackson Braun (whose website I couldn't find. If there is one, please let me know!)
6) Jane Austen. She practically invented modern romance. She inspired about every single romance books out there. Need I say more?

French authors

1) Daniel Pennac (no website either...)
2) Catherine Missonier (her book "Le gout de la Mangue", in English "The taste of the Mango" is still number 2 in my favorite book list, it has been there ever since I read it. It's a beautiful love story)
3) Victor Hugo (he is the only one excused for not having a website since he died over a century ago).
I don't think I forgot any of my favorite authors. I have a very long list of favorite books, that also have great authors who didn't make the list. I'll tell you someday, but not today, since this is my forth post of the day and I think it's more than enough.

Looking for fun blogs

While going round the internet, I found this blog. It looks like anice one, so if you're bored of mine, you can go there. It's pretty much one person telling about her life, but in a way that makes it more interesting than blogs where you read a line a day, that is usually completely misspelled.
Update : This one also looks like fun, but I'll have to check whether it's actully serious or not.
Finally, if in the midst of Katrina and the anniversary of the Beslam tragedy, you're looking for a bit of fun, I would advice this one. It's not a blog, but unless you think you can't laugh a bit with religion, you'll like it (warning : if you're a strong creationist, you won't like it. You might want to try another website such as this one which is a bit more neutral, though obviously not completely since I like it). Make sure you do read the part about the pizza in the end.

Katrina

I may live pretty far away from the United States, but believe me, Katrina and the damages that she has done (I suppose it's a she, since her name is Katrina) are of concern to us as well. There isn't much I can do, though, besides linking to the Eye of the Storm and advice any of you who wants to help somehow to go to the Red Cross. I'm sure the people in New Orleans and Biloxi will take any help they can get.

Update : there is more you can do if you live in the US. You can offer housing to homeless people.

Doctors

I can't say I'm not happy to get comments. I'm glad to see that some people find their way to my blog, and even want to bookmark them. However, I don't know when I gave you all the impression that I am sick or poor.

Out of the four posts I got, I had to delete one because they didn't even bother to give me feed back such as "you rock" or "you suck".

One other was giving me advice on how to get money. That's nice of you, man, but I just got paid AND I'm going to be published, so finances are not that terrible right now.

The two last were nice, even saying that they would bookmark my blog. However, the effect was a bit ruined when they offered links to medical websites. guys, I'm not sick. Well, like everybody, I get the flu every other winter or so, and a headache about once a month, but really, that's it. And, the day I actually feel something is wrong, I promise, I'll go check with my doctor.

I know your websites are serious, diabet is not something fun, and such websites are probably useful for diabetic people. However, I am not diabetic. Last time I made a general check up, belive me, I was in perfect health (and I was really checked for EVERYTHING). So there. Don't bother with medical websites.

However, if you want to link to your blog, feel free to do so, I'll check it out, and maybe bookmark it if I like it.

All this, however made me find my theme for the quote of the day, which is :

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medecine.

Sir Willian Osler

If you have quotes that you think are cool enough to get on my blog (and I want really cool or fun quotes), feel free to tell me about them in a comment!

ETA : I have now turned on the word verification for comments. I know it's a bummer, but at least, it won't stupidly get my hopes up anytime I get a comment.

Great news

This is a time of celebration! Two things happened since my last post : first of all, I found out that my story Sanity will be published in the autumn issue of the magazine Outercast (link is on the right hand side of the screen). Second of all, I got my first comments, which means some people do read my blog. I feel a lot less lonely!
Tank you for taking time to read this!

Presidents

I was looking for a cool quote of the day for tomorrow, and I found this :
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams.

I love Douglas Adams, he has the funniest quotes out there. Anyway, I'm putting it up today even though I already have a quote for today, because this reminded me of a joke I found preety funny. Here's for your enjoyment :

Bill and Hillary Clinton (or any First Couple you can think of, this works for everybody) are in their car, going on vacation. They run out of gas, so they stop in the nearest gas station. As the get in, the pump attendant goes :
"Hillary! How are you? What have you been up to, I haven't seen you in ages!"
And so Hillary answers, because she seems to know the guy, and they start talking about old school days and old friends... you know how that is.
When they finally hit the road again, Bill asks, "Who was that guy?"
"Oh," Hillary answers, "He was an old school friend. We kind of dated for a while..."
So Bill goes, pretty proud, "Well, you see, if you had married him, you would be a pump attendant!"
Hillary looks at him and answers, "Now, Bill, you don't get it. If I had married him, he would be President."


Ain't that funny?

Quote of the day

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright

Quote of the day

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

Quote of the day

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install,
Alovely bookshelf on the wall."
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quote of the day

Good friends, good books and a sleppy conscience : this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain