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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

I Love Ice Coffee
On iTunes: "Step Into My Office, Baby" Belle and Sebastian

I finished Regeneration the other day and I've been working a little on catching myself up on the responses we've got to do for my online class. I've discovered that I really, really don't like online classes. It's horribly impersonal and I don't know how much I'm actually going to get out of this as far as shared ideas go. But it is required for London, so I don't really have a choice.

Regeneration was awesome. It's a war novel, but as the back of the book so aptly puts it, the real war in the pages is what's going on in the minds of the men. A man is declared "mentally unsound" because of an anti-war protest he wrote and is sent to a war hospital where he will try to overcome his "breakdown". It's beautiful and incredibly intelligent, and there are definite parallels to the war in Iraq. There are probably definite parallels to any war or conflict, really. I really love the way the anti-war theme brings out how the country regards its soldiers.. amazing stuff.

Next is Mrs. Dalloway, and then it's on to Shakespeare's The Tempest (which is one of my absolute favorites) and The Winter's Tale. I need to do a lot of reading in the next few days to try and catch up. o_O;;

So I posted the next chapter in hero. I'm pretty pleased with that one, and hopefully it helps to keep the RPG afloat. Otherwise, I'm still waiting to see what a couple other RPGs I've signed up for are doing. I hope they get active soon cause I'm looking forward to both of them. Me need to write! >_>;

Bought the Arcade Fire's album Funeral yesterday, as well. With my discount it was only like $10. So that's pretty flippin cool. They sound amazing, too. The guy's voice actually reminds me of Modest Mouse a little, but the music is something else. They've got like five million different instruments used across the album. I love that. Great lyrics, and the girl who sings is awesome and Canadian. I'm very happy.


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