Thursday, August 11, 2005

About 4 minutes ago, I had something to say, and now I've gone and forgotten. This actually happens a lot.
Of course, by the time I finished typing that, I've remembered.

I was very busy pretending that I cared about the economic, social, political, and religious differences between colonists in NE, colonists in the Chesapeake, and "Algonkians" (Algonquins, perhaps? I have no idea why the book spells it that way ...), when I noticed that I was absent-mindedly chewing on the cap of the lousy pen I was using.

Feeling that this might harm the pen in some way, I stopped, took off the cap, and proceeded to just kind of let the pen hang from my mounth while I looked at graphs comparing the percentages of men and women in different age groups in Jamestown in 1625.

Then, the pen doesn't explode. No, it can't do anything so final. I just starts leaking out the back end.

And I didn't notice for a couple minutes, since I was holding it loosely. Then it got in my mouth, on my hands, etcetera.

It was gross.

And fin.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Oh, I remembered.
I know what I did. I went pen shopping with my sister, then my parents got mad when I got too intense about my school supplies.

But let me explain. School supplies are important. And I'm a little intense about them. I always am. Especially if I'm not at the supply store of choice, which is Office Max.

So if you take me to Staples and try to talk me into $2 for a 24 pack type pens, don't expect me to be happy. And when you try to give me a double-hinge binder, forget it.

You know what's funny? My parents have never let me see an R-rated movie. And because I'm a dork, I've never watched one, except for 10 minute excerts of Amistad, Gladiator, and The Patriot for school, plus Glory and Schindler's List in their entirety for school. And here I am, 3 weeks from 17, old enough to just go and see one. I only think of this because M*A*S*H the movie was on, and I've never watched that because I know it's R and my dad knows it's R and my dad would know if I'd seen it because I'm not very bright.

Actually, I've seen enough only technically not R anime that this really doesn't matter anymore.

I'm done talking. Plus, I think the cat just threw up.
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Heheh, joke's on me!
Sorry, I was watching M*A*S*H yesterday, and it was the one where Hawkeye and Charles are in sort of a prank war and BJ is manipulating them so that Charles is the butt of every joke and Hawk gets blamed for every last one, and then they find out and get back at him, and so jokes were on my mind even though they barely relate to what I was thinking about.

The joke was, last night, I was like, well, at least I've been busy the last few days and will have stuff to write down here to occupy myself while i surf for like 2.5 hours at my dad's school tomorrow, but now I'm here going, What the heck have I been doing that's worth mentioning?

Hence, I'm sitting here, talking about the episode of M*A*S*H I saw yesterday. I haven't had a chance to watch it in forever, and it is my favorite TV show, so it made me happy yesterday.

But yeah, all I've been doing is working, sitting around, reading my history text and Invisible Man, sleeping, and watching TV.

Let's see, something to say ...

I know it's just one of those things that everyone else seems to have seen and know about, but I never saw and episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer until yesterday, when I watched like 9 hours of TV while my parents were at the hospital. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any reason for Spike's hair? It was pretty freakish. I mean, why?

Oh, and yesterday was like, What's Wrong With Anna Nicole Smith on every channel. It was more freakish, and moved me to do a lot of channel surfing away.

Okay, while I'm thinking of TV shows I never saw that everyone else did, Dawson's Creek. I didn't have cable when that was hot, and now I've seen a couple episodes, and all I can say is, why the heck did people like that show?

Apparently, when it comes to shows everyone else has seen, I should just stick to M*A*S*H, which, ironically, almost no one I know watches.

And I keep missing the last episode! I've been dying to see it forever, and I always come home from work, and Daddy's like, Hey! Last ep of M*A*S*H! And I go, You tape the beginning for me? And he goes, No! I didn't think of it!

So I'm like grrr, and watch the last hour.

Anyway, I can't think of anything else to say. So, I'm done talking now.
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Sunday, August 7, 2005

So ... you're my what again?
Right, so on Saturday, we had the family reunion. It was thrilling. I spent my afternoon with people I recognised but didn't have any names for.

Then, we had another reunion. They wanted to have a 70th birthday for Aunt Marie, but she said she would not come. So they made it a family reunion with cake and presents. But this family never ever gets together, so it was like, I didn't recognize anyone and we all had name tags, and it was sad.

Name tags for a family reunion?

I could really just cry.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Perish, fell minions!
And by fell minions, I mean As I Lay Dying.

You probably think I'm being unreasonable, but this book is just that incoherent.

But I finished the paper today, so you'll probably never hear about it again, since it's been mailed.

Of course, now I'm terrified that my papers will get lost in the mail, so I'll be kicked out of my class, and I'll be sitting there going, "Dang it, I did the work!"
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005

*Inspired*
My paper due Friday! Hah! I wrote most of it today! And by most, I mean the two body paragraphs!

Granted, I have no intro, no conclusion, no link to tone, and no title, but let's not ask for too much. I spent 5 hours pretending that the book was optimistic! YAY!

I think I need to call everyone I know and ask what the heck they thought was uplifting about the book next week. And the answer will probably be, "Nothing. My essay is BS," in every case. Because that is what my friend told me she was doing last night, and that is pretty much what I did.

I've come to the conclusion that the only thing separating people with high, middle, and low grades is the ability to produce quality, believable BS on papers.

Actually, I was reading an article in the Globe months ago on how strategic lying and what is called "BS-ing" is a necessary skill. (Then they talked about how this reflects on our society, and I zoned out, because I really didn't want to know.)
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Sunday, July 31, 2005

Glah
Actually, the day was so uneventful in an As I Lay Dying kind of way, I have nothing to say.

Except to express my undying hatred of William Faulkner.

People are online today, and it makes me glad. People are never on in the summer.
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Saturday, July 30, 2005

Homework and Pawsox
Today, I took notes on 100 pages of As I Lay Dying, and still can't think of anything optimistic to say.

I feel much better about having done most of chapter 1 for history though. That was very straightforward in a "colonists suck" kind of way.

My dad's kind of been on this thing about going to a Pawsox game because he needs to have major surgery soon, so we went tonight, and it was okay. I'm not big on sports other than what's necessary living in New England, but summer sports means doughboys. And I really like doughboys.

There are fireworks a few towns over. Barely seeable fireworks, yet my parents went out to watch smoke on the horizon. Which is kind of sad, I think.
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Friday, July 29, 2005

Summer work kinda sucks ...
I have a paper on As I Lay Dying due Friday. I have to find an optimistic theme. I have read the book already, but how much optimism is there in a book about a family dragging their mother to her resting place (whether or not she's dead), as they all slowly lose it on the way?

I have my history crap due the 17th, so I need to work on the first two chapters, which are kind of random. (The intro suggested I read the author bios to evaluate if they had the credentials to make assesments ... well, I have to use the book whether or not they do, and I'm supposed to be making assessments with my limited knowledge, so does that matter?)

I have a paper on The Invisible Man due the 26th.

I also have to read Profiles in Courage and The Jungle and do a few chapters of statistics stuff before the first day on the 8th of September.

And every night, I have to listen to my sister whine about The Count of Monte Christo and get hysterical over it, which gets me upset, so I read one of my happy things, so I giggle, which irritates her, so she yells more.

Speaking of happy things, fans of dark fantasy (or fantasy in general) should go find "The Garbeliad" online. I don't remember where it is, but if you search that on Google, you can find it. It's a superb parody of dark fantasy written by Garth Nix.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

School?
Well, no one can give me a ride to work unless I go in to school with my dad now, so ... here I am, "experiencing the wonders of broadband."

And lo, it is indeed, wonderful.

If only I didn't need to occupy myself for an hour and a half without my favorites list for suggestions.
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