I've been reading over some of the old AU Shipper threads, and I came across this one from the time of the finale. I think it might be our best thread ever.

Swapping info has been e-mailed to all bookswappers! For those of you who didn't get your lists in before the deadline, just remember that we're going to try to make this a regular event. We had so many good titles, and so many people requesting the same ones that we didn't all get our #1 choice, but I tried to work it out that way as often as possible. If you have any questions about your selection (or if I was a tard and didn't send you the e-mail addy of the person/people you're exchanging with) don't hesitate to e-mail, tag or message me!

Attention all Bookswappers! The deadline for sending me your list of desired titles is midnight EST tomorrow. So that gives y'all just over a day to get that to me. I'm starting to pack for my move and I know at least one other gal will be returning to school in the next few weeks, so please get back to me tonight or tomorrow. And if you've decided not to swap this go-round, that's fine too, but I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know so I don't wait on you. Thanks.

I'm supposed to update, but I got nothing.

Oh! Good news! Good news if you aren't One that is... I say "Good news", because - hello! Kiefer, Carlos, Dennis and DB? That is one fine cast. Can you imagine how intensely hot it would have been if they hadn't killed off Mason, Reza, Yusuf, Syed and Gary?

'Cause... Dude. I just blew my own mind.

I was hoping to finish up the bookswap before you all left for FreakFest but I can't finish it up until I get everyone's lists. *coughs* Anyway, have a great time and listen to One - We want plenty of fun, juicy, gossipy stories when you all get back.

One's link about the possibility of a Farscape mini-series inspired me to dust off this layout I made a couple months ago and never got around to using. I'll be adding Tagger to the splash page sometime soon, but until then we'll have to deal with the other commenter.

I spent way too much time (15 minutes? 20 minutes?) writing that last "paragraph". But that's what I get for staying up all night to put up the new layout. Bad Trixie. Bad!

Okay, bookswappers - what we've all been waiting for - exchange time! Select five titles (out of the 100 or so listed below) that you'd be interested in reading (ranked 1-5, in order of preference) and send the list to me at the hotmail address. My server is being wonky and I can't access my vicioustrollop e-mail. Also make sure you note on the e-mail whether or not you're going to be in on the cd swap - I didn't save that info, so it's lost to my spastic e-mail account. Once I've recieved everyone's list, I'll be in touch with each of you to let you know who to send your address to, and who to expect an address from - I'll try to arrange it so that everyone gets a book from the person who will have their book, but I think we have an odd number of people, so it won't be possible in all cases. Anyway, here's the list:

Harry Potter and: Sorcerer's Stone; Chamber of Secrets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of Fire - J.k. Rowling (all Hardcover - two copies each of 2, 3 & 4)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (two copies)
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon (one hardcover, two softcover)
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
Jim the Boy - Tony Early
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank
Cloudsplitter - Russel Banks
In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden - Kathleen Cambor (hardcover)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (one hardcover, one softcover)
History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Breathe, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber (hardcover)
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (hardcover)
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston (hardcover)
Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
Goodnight, Nebraska - Tom McNeal
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaajte (hardcover)
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Goodlife - Keith Scribner
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Damascus Gate - Robert Stone
A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe (hardcover)
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing -Cormac McCarthy (hardcover)
Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy (hardcover)
The Size of the World: Once Around Without Leaving the Ground - Jeff Greenwald (non fiction)
Looking for Trouble: One Woman, Six Wars and a Revolution - Leslie Cockburn (non fiction)
In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson (nonfiction / hardcover)
Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes
All We Know of Love - Katie Schneider
Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
American Fuji - Sara Backer
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Crazy for You - Jennifer Crusie (paperback)
Fast Women - Jennifer Crusie (paperback)
Faking It - Jennifer Crusie (hardcover)
The Gift of Fear - Gavin DeBecker (nonfiction, hardcover)
The Anatomy of Motive - John Douglas (nonfiction, hardcover)
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit - Lawrence Block
Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
Katherine - Anchee Min
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
The Scar - China Miéville
On The Beach - Nevil Shute
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ward Number Six (and other stories) - Anton Chekov
Moby Dick - Herman Mellville
See How They Run - James Patterson (Paperback)
1st to Die - James Patterson (Paperback, two copies)
Roses are Red - James Patterson (Hardcover) *part of the Alex Cross series. Not really necessary to read prior novels*
Violets are Blue - James Patterson (Hardcover)
Hide & Seek - James Patterson
Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell (Paperback)
Dead Until Dark -Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
Laws of the Blood: The Hunt - Susan Sizemore
Laws of the Blood: Partners - Susan Sizemore
Laws of the Blood: Deceptions - Susan Sizemore
Laws of the Blood: Companions - Susan Sizemore
A Game of Thrones - George Martin
Blood Price - Tanya Huff
Necroscope - Brian Lumley
A Kiss of Shadows - Laurell K Hamilton
Nightseer - Laurell K Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
The Messiah Stones - Irving Benig
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy - W.P. Kinsella
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Dancer Upstairs - Nicholas Shakespeare
The Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (first in Thursday Next series)
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (second in Thursday Next series, hardcover)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Florabama Ladies Auxilary and Sewing Circle - Lois Battle
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid
Cause Celeb - Helen Fielding
Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella
An Italian Education - Tim Parks
Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
One-L - Scott Turow
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Gone Baby Gone - Dennis Lehane
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Hard Evidence - John Lecroart
Dear Exile - Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery
The City of Joy - Dominique LaPierre
Total Control - David Baldacci
Absolute Power - David Baldacci
Saving Faith - David Baldacci
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Law Review - S. Scott Gaille
The Partner - John Grisham
The Testament - John Grisham
The Summons - John Grisham
Dangerous Kiss - Jackie Collins
Deck the Halls - Mary & Carol Higgins Clark
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Bitter Harvest - Anne Rule
Darkness Peering - Alice Blanchard
The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
Spring Moon - Bette Bao Lord
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

If you sent me a list and you didm't see your titles listed, resend the list to the other account. I'll try to get your titles included this go-round.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Good "Keen Eddie" news has brought me out of my blogging strike. According to the official Paramount site, "Keen Eddie" is moving to Thursdays at 9pm, and now it looks as though all 13 episodes will be seen! And this also makes me have the teeniest glimmer of hope that FOX will renew the show...

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *bouncyx4*

Well, hello Shiny Blue Blogger User Interface! This is new - I go away and Blogger gets all spiffed up for me. I suspect that he was jealous, what with my new Live Journal and all.

What to blog about... it's been so long I'm not sure I remember how to do this. How about I tell you a little about my trip? That would make sense.

South Carolina is a beautiful, fabulous place. We got there in nine-hours, deftly avoiding the DC rush hour traffic by about ten minutes - there is nothing like the feeling of getting on the south side of DC to see traffic in the other lane backed up for miles. Good times. Anywho, in South Carolina they have palmetto trees and stand alone Chic-Fil-As. And these Chic-Fil-A's have breakfast sandwiches. Chicken filets on a biscuit - and not a dry, tasteless biscuit like what you find at McDonalds, but a flaky, moist southern biscuit like you get at Grandma's house. I'm not sure what more I need.

We found a new apartment our second day there, which was a heck of a lot sooner than I expected. I had been scouring the Wednesday paper's ads, looking for houses and apartments for rent, and using my handy-dandy street map of Charleston I had found a nine-square ideal-living-zone. The center square of the zone I chose because it had the shopping center with the Chic-Fil-A and the Barnes and Noble and the Mall was across the street. The mall ALSO has a Chic-Fil-A and a Books-A-Million. And it's less than a mile and a half from the campus, but whatever - Two bookstores! Dual Chic-Fil-As! My perfect neighborhood. So I was making my list of available rentals and charting them on my map - finding nothing in my nine-squares - when this ad caught my eye. Now, I had been avoiding the larger ads, because I assumed that they were mostly short-term vacation rentals and apartment complexes (and I was right) but this particular ad said Call Trixie 867-5309, just, you know, with my real name and an actual phone number. So I figured, it wouldn't hurt to check it out. The address in the ad wasn't just in my nine-square zone, it was in the center square! Which - YAY! We called and talked to the lady with my name and decided to swing by the next day to check it out.

When we got there the next day and met the other Trixie I was very surprised to find out that she was my age and also a college student at another nearby school. And we had the same combination of pearly-clear nail polish on our hands and cherry-red polish on our toes, whatever that means, and I swear we had the same handwriting, which is just... odd. She gave us the grand tour, and when we were checking out the furnished model, I opened the walk-in closet door to see that it had a few bags hanging on the racks, one of which was a lime green Escada bag advertising my perfume - which is a limited-edition from three years ago. Everything else I could write off as coincidence, but Escada? In Charleston? South Carolina? It was a sign.

A sign that I really have been watching way too much "Sex and The City", no?

So anyway, it seems that these apartments have a lot of students from our school, which is good to know, since we don't know ANYONE down there, but didn't want to live on-campus. And they allow pets, but don't charge pet rent! It is in a complex, which I didn't want, based on the last time I lived in an apartment complex, but it is worth noting that this apartment is the same size as the last, and $200 cheaper. Which is actually $400 cheaper than what that old apartment goes for now. So, I'm calling it a bargain.

We explored the downtown area after getting our apartment paperwork squared away and WOW. Charleston is simply gorgeous. Staggering. Perfect. Good restaurants, fabulous shops, and you're right on the coast, which means plenty of opportunity for fishing and sailing and seafood. Registering for classes took all day Friday, and the only "student" I actually talked to turned out to be the mother of a student. The hardest thing about going back to school is going to be dealing with people my age and younger. I hang out with more people in their 30s and 40s than anything else, I'm not sure I'll be able to adjust to all these darn kids running around.

I move in less than a month... it doesn't seem like near enough time to do everything I need to do. But I suppose I'll manage one way or another...

For the record, I was working on this blog way before Lancer's threat. Really. And for all you ladies interested in the bookswap - I already have about 90 titles, but if you haven't signed up yet hurry and do so. I'll try to get the info posted tomorrow!