gauloises in 2006
2006 was 99% worth living.
In 2005, gauloises
did 175 things,
went 0 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 1600 products.
May
Completed on 43 Things:
- Pay for the next car at the toll booth — Worth doing!
- Memorize Hamlet's, "What a piece of work is man" speech — Worth doing!
- Master the pregnant pause and deadpan delivery — Worth doing!
- flirt — Worth doing!
- crash a posh party — Worth doing!
- stay in bed all day — Worth doing!
- Lobby — Worth doing!
- build a secret tree house — Worth doing!
- Spend one month without a car — Worth doing!
- live withouth television for a month — Worth doing!
- Spend one month without a radio — Worth doing!
- Spend a day at a nursing home — Worth doing!
- perform at open-mike night — Worth doing!
- Clean out the cloest and give away clothes and shoes to the poor — Worth doing!
- donate books — Worth doing!
Read:
- The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) — Worth consuming!
- Cryptonomicon — Worth consuming!
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Coraline — Worth consuming!
- The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- A Suitable Boy : Novel, A — Worth consuming!
- Brave New World — Worth consuming!
- The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
- The Night Listener: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Crying of Lot 49 — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Worth consuming!
- The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
- Grace — Worth consuming!
- Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
- (What's The Story) Morning Glory? — Worth consuming!
- Blue — Worth consuming!
- Automatic for the People — Worth consuming!
- Jagged Little Pill — Worth consuming!
- The Bends — Worth consuming!
- The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
- Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
- OK Computer — Worth consuming!
- Nevermind — Worth consuming!
- Born to Run — Worth consuming!
- Definitely Maybe — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
- A River Runs Through It — Worth consuming!
- The Piano — Worth consuming!
- Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
- Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
- North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
- The Firm — Worth consuming!
- Sense and Sensibility — Worth consuming!
- Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
- His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
- Rushmore — Worth consuming!
- Casablanca — Worth consuming!
- Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
- Titanic — Worth consuming!
- The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling — Worth consuming!
- abjure - To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate. — Worth consuming!
- abrogate — Worth consuming!
- abstemious — Worth consuming!
- acumen — Worth consuming!
- antebellum — Worth consuming!
- auspicious — Worth consuming!
- belie — Worth consuming!
- bellicose — Worth consuming!
- bowdlerize — Worth consuming!
- chicanery — Worth consuming!
- chromosome — Worth consuming!
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Read:
- Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Notes on a Scandal — Worth consuming!
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Sword of Shannara — Worth consuming!
- Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
- The Art of Travel — Worth consuming!
- The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
- A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
- Fugitive Pieces: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Brick Lane: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Miracle of the Rose — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Read:
- Monstrous Regiment (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
- Equal Rites — Worth consuming!
- Feet of Clay — Worth consuming!
- Jingo: A Novel of Discworld — Worth consuming!
- The Magic Toyshop — Worth consuming!
- Thinks . . . — Worth consuming!
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Worth consuming!
- Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Farewell, My Lovely — Worth consuming!
- The Blue Flower — Worth consuming!
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Worth consuming!
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Untouchable — Worth consuming!
- The Wasp Factory: A Novel — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Read:
- Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Germinal (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- On the Road (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Smilla's Sense of Snow — Worth consuming!
- Amsterdam: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Sex and the City — Worth consuming!
- The Body Artist: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Cosmopolis: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- 95 Poems — Worth consuming!
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression — Worth consuming!
- Fear of Flying — Worth consuming!
- According to Queeney — Worth consuming!
- The Constant Gardener: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Haunted: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Batman — Worth consuming!
- Toy Story — Worth consuming!
- Y Tu Mama Tambien — Worth consuming!
- Fahrenheit 9/11 — Worth consuming!
- Strictly Ballroom — Worth consuming!
- Monsoon Wedding — Worth consuming!
- Batman Forever — Worth consuming!
- Top Gun — Worth consuming!
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Worth consuming!
- Man Bites Dog - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- The Peacemaker — Worth consuming!
- Carrington — Worth consuming!
- The Royal Tenenbaums — Worth consuming!
- The Pianist — Worth consuming!
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from August
September
Read:
- Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Cloud Atlas: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Les Misérables (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Tipping the Velvet: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Love, Etc. — Worth consuming!
- Hawksmoor — Worth consuming!
- Rape: A Love Story — Worth consuming!
→ See more from September
October
Read:
- Britain BC — Worth consuming!
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Love of Stones: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation — Worth consuming!
- The Glimpses Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
- The Blackwater Lightship — Worth consuming!
- No Signposts in the Sea — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Read:
- The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone — Worth consuming!
- Night Watch — Worth consuming!
- The Color of Magic — Worth consuming!
- Felicia's Journey: (movie tie-in edition) — Worth consuming!
- Spies: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Eye of the World : Book One of 'The Wheel of Time' (Wheel of Time) — Worth consuming!
- The Great Hunt : Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' (Wheel of Time) — Worth consuming!
- Cloud Atlas — Worth consuming!
- The Redemption of Althalus — Worth consuming!
- True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History — Worth consuming!
- Redwall (Redwall, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
- Beowulf (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
- True History of the Kelly Gang — Worth consuming!
→ See more from November
December
Read:
- Animal Farm and 1984 — Worth consuming!
- The Robber Bride — Worth consuming!
- Nostromo — Worth consuming!
- Goldfinger (James Bond Novels) — Worth consuming!
- Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings — Worth consuming!
- A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man — Worth consuming!
- The Robber Bride — Worth consuming!
- The Bell Jar — Worth consuming!
- The Colour: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie — Worth consuming!
- Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy, 2) — Worth consuming!
- Tender Is the Night — Worth consuming!
- The Secret Agent — Worth consuming!
- A Clockwork Orange — Worth consuming!
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea — Worth consuming!