She talks to wolves...

A few weeks ago, I started training at a new job. I've been meaning to talk about it a bit here: not in specifics, but in generalized terms as it's been a learning experience and introduced me to a new bilingual environment. However, I've been too busy and exhausted! They've been exploiting my class-free summer and working me nearly 40 hours a week (which I'm definitely digging from a financial perspective), so I've been struggling to adjust to a new and full schedule. It's beleaguered my blogging though, as you will have noticed.

So! I figure it's time for a meme that so many of my friends are doing; I myself got this one from ajodasso.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that you think should be obvious, but you have no idea about. I promise true answers.

Have at it! And do let me know if you're doing this meme as well: I promise to come 'round and ask you something in return.

In celebration of having two pages of my paper (pseudo-)written, I meme! (Blame Props to dulcinbradbury.)

"This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (yes, all of it)
Dream Work by Mary Oliver
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Wolfwalker by Tara K. Harper

No explication. For, as the White Rabbit said, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" (At least I'm just facing a grad school professor tomorrow and now the Queen of Hearts. Although I'm also facing two final exams and having to write another paper, so maybe it is equivalent to that dastardly personage.)