63 posts tagged “qotd”

How are you celebrating St. Patrick's Day?

I am surrounding myself with all things celtic!!! My new faves, Celtic Thunder, are going to be on the Today Show and then they open the St. Patrick's Day parade in NY. So, I am watching those. I am also cooking our St. Pat's dinner corned beef and cabbage,but it's a WW recipe, so I can fit the points! I get to go to choir rehearsal and then school, and end my day with a small glass of Bailey's!

 

How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision?
Submitted by Strive2Be.

I figured I could answer this one and show you all how totally weird and nerdy I really am. (You know, in case you didn't already know...)

 

My username is princessteynrodae. I think the Princess bit is pretty easy to understand. My name is Sarah. Sarah is Hebrew for princess. Yada Yada.

Now, I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan and when the movies were first coming out, there was this lady (I wish I could remember her website) who would ask you some simple questions about your personality and come up with an elf name for you. The name she gave me was Teynrodae (t-n-road-ā), which means "mother of laughter". It was perfect, since I seem to laugh a lot.

Anyway, there you go... princessteynrodae.

What's the biggest leap of faith you've ever had to take?

I think the biggest leap of faith I took was when I went on my YWAM DTS. I had to trust God for a lot of stuff. I had to trust that he would provide the money to fund the trip. Because I signed up fairly last minute, I had to trust that he would speedily guide my enrollment process. I had to trust him for safe travel during my whole six month journey and I had to trust him to bring ne friendships into my life.

I am so glad that I did trust him. I have so many wonderful memories, experiences, and friends because of that adventure!

When was the last time you surprised someone else?

We (my parents & I) are actually surprising my brother tonight. His 24th birthday was on Tuesday and it happened that Third Day was playing at the House of Blues Anaheim tonight. So, Mom bought tickets for the whole fam to go and all Andrew knows is that we are going to meet him after work for dinner at Brennan's at Downtown Disney!!! He has been asking for a month (since Mom and I counseled him to make sure he had Friday off to sleep in) and still doesn't know what we're doing...

Tell us the story behind one of the text messages or voicemails you have saved in your phone.

I know it's kind of funny, but I have the text my brother sent me telling me he had finally passed his driving test and gotten his license. It took him a long time to get it. So, I've kept the message. All it says is "I passed."

 

I also have a message sent to me by my Heather friend on Apr 16th, 2007. It says "Thanks for intorducing me to Christian yesterday. He is a very sweet guy!" Heather and Christian are getting married on August 23rd, 2008 and I am one of the bridesmaids!!

Are you watching the Super Bowl today?  Who are you watching it with, and which team do you want to win?

I am watching the Super Bowl with a bunch of awesome people from church. And we're having an appetizer competition, too.  I hope I win!

Anyway, I think I'm rooting for the Giants, cause my dad doesn't want the Patriots to win and he'll be bummed if they do. I'd rather not see him bummed. Otherwise, I wouldn't really care at all.

The seventh season of "American Idol" premieres tonight.  Will you be watching, or are you over it?

I always think I'm over it until it starts...and then I get wrapped up in the "Idol fever" again.

I am sooooooo watching it!

What are you saving up for? 
Submitted by Star. 

Well, not really saving up right now... more like trying to pay off debt within the next two months (which is why I really need a job). But after that, I am saving what I can to go to school in New Zealand next year (if I get accepted).

What's the best book you read this year?

Well, it's not just one book, it's a series... and I'm not really done with it all, but I think I can be finished by New Years Day (it's my goal). My buddy Jeremy lent them to me just after we returned from Samoa (since I had finished Harry Potter and had nothing else to read but school books) and I've been hooked ever since!

It's a series of novels by Jasper Fforde about a detective named Thursday Next. At the moment, there are five books (with a sixth on the way) and I am currently reading the fourth installment. It's really quite a fun read. Anyway, here are pics of each of the books,plus a brief introduction to the story... I think you should get addicted to Thursday Next, too!

 

Masterpiece Theatre meets James Bond in The Eyre Affair, the first novel in Jasper Fforde's cheeky sleuth series featuring a book-loving, gun-toting, wit-slinging heroine named Thursday Next. In Thursday's world, an alternate version of 1985 London, literature rules popular culture—audiences enact and participate in Richard III for Friday-night fun, thousands of visitors make literary pilgrimages to gawk at original manuscripts, and missionaries travel door-to-door heralding Francis Bacon as the true Bard. The mysterious theft of the Martin Chuzzlewit original manuscript from the Dickens Museum catalyzes Thursday's transformation from humble library cop into intrepid literature savior. When Thursday's eccentric uncle Mycroft and aunt Polly are kidnapped along with their Prose Portal, an ingenious device that allows readers to physically enter the world of any book, the SpecOps literary division uncovers a dastardly plot to kidnap and murder characters from everyone's favorite novels. The criminal operation is helmed by Acheron Hades, the third most evil man in the world, a supreme villain who bends minds, shifts shapes, and remains impervious to most mortal weapons. Thursday and her SpecOps cohorts' mission to capture their slippery adversary is further complicated by the meddling of the pointedly named Jack Schitt, the despotic head of security at the hegemonic Goliath Corporation, whose investment in Hades' capture seems suspect. And when the perpetrators dare to steal the original Jane Eyre, Thursday must race to save one of the most beloved characters in English literature—and Brontë's classic love story itself—from eradication.

 

Thursday's hopes for a quiet life with her new husband, Landen, are dashed when a seemingly impossible string of coincidences involving a falling car, a disgruntled Neanderthal, and a mysterious young woman leads to some extremely close brushes with death. Her jumpy ChronoGuard father rescues her just in time, only to reveal to her that the world is destined to become one big, pink blob of Dream Topping in a matter of days unless they can figure out how and why it happens. And just when Thursday discovers that she is pregnant with Landen's child, the Goliath goons eradicate Landen from existence, threatening to make it permanent unless Thursday retrieves her nemesis Jack Schitt from his imprisonment in a copy of "The Raven"—this time without the help of her now retired uncle Mycroft's mad machinery. Thursday's loved ones are disappearing, while her list of enemies appears to be growing steadily. Luckily, Thursday's fictional colleagues in an internal book-policing squad called Jurisfiction have eagerly anticipated her return to the book world, assigning her to apprentice under the tutelage of one of their greatest agents, the abrasive Miss Havisham of Great Expectations. Thursday discovers that the sudden materialization of Shakespeare's long-lost play Cardenio, which she had been investigating for SpecOps 27, was indeed too good to be true—it has evidently been stolen from the Great Library by a rogue character from the book world. With Miss Havisham and Jurisfiction's help, Thursday must find the perpetrator and return Cardenio to its proper home in the Well of Lost Plots—the home of all unpublished works—before the thief can gain all the power and money that goes with its release in the real world.

 

Thursday and her pet dodo, Pickwick, have taken up temporary residency in a run-of-the-mill unpublished crime novel called Caversham Heights through the book world's Character Exchange Program—at least for the duration of her pregnancy. While the pages of an obscure, unpublished novel seem like a safe harbor, Thursday's enemy stalks her in her sleep. Aornis uses her skills as a mnemonomorph to alter and destroy Thursday's memories, which are all she has left of her eradicated husband. Granny Next, apparently an ex-Jurisfiction operative herself, unexpectedly appears on Thursday's doorstep to try to help her battle the mindworm, but Thursday must face off with Aornis, and her darkest nightmares, alone. It seems that no one in the book world is safe anymore. Thursday reports for duty with her Jurisfiction colleagues at their headquarters in the Dashwoods' ballroom in Sense and Sensibility to discuss UltraWord™, the Book Operating System upgrade that has the entire fiction world buzzing with anticipation. But when the squad heads out to chase down the escaped Minotaur, Agent Perkins's body is found mangled at the Minotaur's vault, and Agent Snell dies from contact with the deadly "mispeling vyrus." While Snell's and Perkins's deaths in the line of duty at first seem legitimate, a missing vault key, a damaged Eject-o-Hat, and Snell's horribly misspelled final words point to sabotage. But at the 923rd annual BookWorld Awards, Thursday alone can stop a conversion of power that will shake the world of fiction to its very core.

 

With her Lorem Ipsum-spouting son, Friday, in tow, Thursday returns to her Swindon home to resume her quest to reactualize her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. As a final favor to her Jurisfiction colleagues, Thursday also escorts Shakespeare's Hamlet on a public relations field trip to the real world so he can ponder why he has been misrepresented as a "ditherer." Much has changed in Swindon since she left—the Goliath Corporation has branched out from corporate domination into religious domination, rogue book character Yorrick Kaine has mysteriously risen to power as right-wing chancellor of England, and thirteenth-century saints are resurrecting themselves all over the country. Swindon's very own patron saint, the foulmouthed St. Zvlkx, returns to Swindon in front of a shopping center just as he predicted in his Book of Revealments. St. Zvlkx's uncannily precise Revealments also predict that the downfall of the mighty Goliath corporation is inextricably linked to a seemingly impossible Swindon Mallets win at the upcoming SuperHoop championship. Upon her return, Thursday finds herself at the wrong end of a sniper's rifle. Her would-be assassin turns out to be a deadly hitwoman who goes by the name the Windowmaker and also happens to be her good friend Spike's wife. Thursday suspects that Yorrick Kaine has contracted for the Windowmaker's services, because Thursday is one of the few people in the real world who can reveal his true identity and deport him back to the BookWorld. Kaine seems to have the entire country under his spell, and even Thursday finds herself being charmed into confusion by his unnatural charisma. Kaine and his conniving pals at Goliath will stop at nothing to make sure St. Zvlkx's prediction doesn't come true. As the octogenarian President of England's death draws near, Thursday must find a way to take Yorrick Kaine back to fiction before the Windowmaker takes her out of action.

 

It’s 2002, fourteen years after Thursday’s last adventure battling a rogue book character in the Outland. Swindon seems to have quieted down since the excitement of the 1988 SuperHoop. The politicians’ biggest concern these days is which act of idiocy would be the best way to spend the growing, unwieldy stupidity surplus. Thursday and her husband, Landen Parke-Laine, now have three children. Thursday has settled into a quiet, normal life, dropping out of the SpecOps and Jurisfiction games completely. Or has she? The SpecOps units, formed to police the stranger crime elements such as supernatural and literary offenses, have officially disbanded; unofficially, however, they have gone underground, working quietly behind a business front that installs carpets across town. Despite her promises to Landen, Thursday has also been secretly policing the BookWorld with her Jurisfiction colleagues, and the death of Sherlock Holmes, the discovery of book probes, and falling Outland reading rates have put the BookWorld on edge. In an effort to fill out the dwindling Jurisfiction forces, Thursday must mentor two apprentices—two very different doppelgängers born in the books written about her own life. One of them, Thursday5, is a hippie-dippy do-gooder from the fifth feel-good novel of Thursday’s adventures. The other, Thursday1–4, is an uncensored, oversexed gunslinger from the first four unauthorized novels. Thursday1–4 finally finds an opportunity to exact revenge on Thursday for her neglect of the factually challenged unauthorized series. As her first order of havoc-wreaking business, Thursday1–4, posing as the real Thursday, jumps into the Outland and into Thursday’s home. Before Thursday can reduce the rogue to text, Thursday1–4 steals her TravelBook, effectively locking her mentor out of the BookWorld completely. Meanwhile, Thursday’s eldest child, Friday Next, is now a “grunty and unintelligible” sixteen-year-old. Friday is destined to become one of the ChronoGuard’s most respected and influential leaders—if Thursday can convince him to join in time to help invent time travel. Everyone in the Chronoguard, including a clean-cut overachieving alternate Friday, is campaigning to help her force Friday into the service of time. But if the real Friday knows his role in the invention of time travel, he’s refusing to give it up, despite threats to his existence. While Thursday tries to find a way back into the BookWorld, her evil impostor gives the green light to a project that will rewrite the English classics, complete with audience call-in votes directing the story, starting with Pride and Prejudice. To save books from being turned into reality television shows, Thursday must turn to her sworn enemy, the Goliath Corporation. It has made progress on the Austen Rover, the first interliterary tour bus ever created. Goliath has solicited Thursday’s help to map the Rover’s entry into the BookWorld since, without it, they could easily wind up lost in the Nothing—vast, treacherous areas of abandoned Dark Reading Matter. But Goliath has ulterior motives in trying to jump into the BookWorld, and Thursday won’t find out until she’s trapped at sea in an excruciating moral dilemma. Can Thursday save the literary canon from decimation by creative democracy?

What was your major or field of study in college? Did you wind up working in that field or using that degree? If not, what field have you wound up in? 
Submitted by sneuf. 

I am still unfortunate enough to be in school... but my is travel & tourism and I am hoping to finish my bachelors at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

I have already worked in the field a bit and I absolutely love it!!!