Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
ISBN: 0152058265

From the site Goodreads: It’s almost the end of Miranda’s sophomore year in high school, and her journal reflects the busy life of a typical teenager: conversations with friends, fights with mom, and fervent hopes for a driver’s license. When Miranda first begins hearing the reports of a meteor on a collision course with the moon, it hardly seems worth a mention in her diary. But after the meteor hits, pushing the moon off its axis and causing worldwide earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, all the things Miranda used to take for granted begin to disappear. Food and gas shortages, along with extreme weather changes, come to her small Pennsylvania town; and Miranda’s voice is by turns petulant, angry, and finally resigned, as her family is forced to make tough choices while they consider their increasingly limited options. Yet even as suspicious neighbors stockpile food in anticipation of a looming winter without heat or electricity, Miranda knows that that her future is still hers to decide even if life as she knew it is over.

I heard this on the radio this morning and its been stuck in my head ALL DAY! Now I hope it’ll be stuck in your head too! MWAHAHAH!

Ēbn-Ōzn - AEIOU Sometimes Y

Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen
ISBN: 0152022686

From the site Goodreads: Armageddon Summer provides a front-row seat for the type of event most of us only witness on a TV screen. Reverend Raymond Beelson is gathering 144 “Believers” atop Mount Weeupcut in Massachusetts to camp out, pray, and await Armageddon–July 27, 2000–when he predicts that his faithful flock will be saved as the rest of the world is set ablaze in fire and brimstone. We experience the month leading up to this climax through the eyes of two teenagers who have never met before, Jed and Marina, each of whom have come to the compound out of a sense of responsibility toward their families. Young Jed is only on the mountain to watch over his father who “went a little crazy” after his wife left the family: “When my father told me that the world was going to end I figured he was making some sort of weird joke.” Jed’s sarcasm, humor, and flippancy toward the Believers does not erase the love he feels for his newly devout father, nor his capacity for empathy toward members of the congregation. Marina is a Believer, or so she tries to be, in the hope that somehow her faith will restore harmony to her family. She has traveled to the mountain with her younger brothers at her mother’s fervent insistence, but her fear that her father will remain below with the rest of the nonbelievers to burn alive unnerves her.

I love love love Radiohead. If you haven’t heard of Radiohead, well then shame on you.

Radiohead - karma police

I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
ISBN: 0440228441

Don’t except to be reading the movie. According to many people, this is much better…

From the site Goodreads: It was only an accident — but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But some secrets don’t stay buried, and someone has learned the truth. Someone bent on revenge. This summer, the horror is only beginning….

Yup. They created another video, and this one is just as brilliant as the last one!

mj and libba bray: part two part too

That Summer by Sarah Dessen
ISBN: 0670061107

From the site Goodreads: For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She’s nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister,the always perfect Ashley,is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley’s reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.

Unbelievable. This better be the best tasting watermelon EVER.
From Associated Press on Yahoo News:
Black Japanese watermelon sold at record price
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 6, 4:16 AM ET

TOKYO - A jumbo black watermelon auctioned in Japan on Friday fetched a record $6,100, making it one of the most expensive watermelons ever sold in the country.

In a society where melons are a luxury item commonly given as gifts, the watermelon’s hefty price tag followed another jaw-dropping auction last month, when a pair of “Yubari” cantaloupe melons sold for a record $23,500.

The 17-pound, black-skinned “Densuke” watermelon, a variety grown only on the northern island of Hokkaido, was purchased Friday by a marine products dealer who said he wanted to support local agriculture, according to Kyodo News agency.

The price was the highest on record for a Densuke watermelon, said Kazuyoshi Ohira, a spokesman for the Tohma Agricultural Cooperative in Hokkaido. Most retail at department stores and supermarkets for a more modest $188 to $283, Ohira said.

And what makes a watermelon worth $200, much less $6,000?

Ohira says it’s the unusual black skin and unparalleled taste. “It’s a watermelon, but it’s not the same,” he said.

When I was in elementary school EVERYONE loved NKOTB. I had posters all over my room, t-shirts, giant buttons and videos. Unfortunately, I never got to see them in concert. Supposedly, they’re getting back together, but I dunno. I do know that if they get back together, there’s going to be a lot of thirty-something year olds throwing themselves at those guys.
Here’s their website.

New Kids On The Block - Step by step

They Teach That in College!?: A Resource Guide to More Than 95 Interesting College Majors
by Andrew Morkes
ISBN: 0974525170

From the site of Goodreads: Business, Social Sciences/History, and Education are the most popular college majors today, but not every student has the interest or aptitude to be successful in these fields. Additionally, many of these fields are glutted with graduates who are forced to take lower-paying jobs or positions that are unrelated to their field of study. They Teach That in College!? provides information about interesting, lucrative, and cutting-edge college majors unknown to many counselors, educators, and parents. It includes profiles of more than 95 college majors, course listings, potential employers, contact information for colleges and universities that offer these programs, contact information for professional associations that offer career information about these fields, interesting sidebars, photographs, and interviews with college educators. They Teach That in College!? has 96 main chapters which focus on unique and interesting majors. What is a unique major? We used two official criterion to select majors to include in this book: 1) the major had to be fast-growing and offer good employment and salary prospects for students, and 2) the major had to be offered at less than 25 percent of colleges and universities in the United States. A third unofficial criterion was that the major had to capture our imagination in short it had to be fun and, hopefully, interesting to our readers. In addition to the aforementioned sections, They Teach That in College!? also features a school index, a schools by state index, and an association/organization index. What s New in the Second Edition? We have made many improvements and additions to the second edition of They Teach That in College!? We have: Increased the number of majors covered from 68 in the last edition to 96 in the second edition; Added nearly 40 new majors to the book, including Nanoscience/Nanotechnology, Sustainable Agriculture, Mechatronics Systems Engineering, Horticultural Therapy, Forensic Accounting, Satellite Communications, Ecotourism, and Comic Book Art, to name just a few; Added many new interviews with educators, as well as new sidebars; Thoroughly updated the articles, including contact information for colleges and universities and professional associations; and Added photographs.