Listening to: "Tadori Tsuku Basho" - High and Mighty ColorToday was an interesting day. We're reading "The Taming of the Shrew" in my Shakespeare class. I really like the play a lot b/c of the Kate and Petruchio pairing. It's silly how girls often say that they're looking for a "Romeo" b/c Romeo wasn't a great lover. He's goes from pining over Rosalind to proclaiming that he loves Juliet even though they've just met. Maybe my age is making me more of a realist, but I couldn't handle someone w/ Romeo's personality. My roommates were talking about how they would want a "Benedick," a guy w/ whom they can have a "merry war of words." I want a "Petruchio," a guy who can get me to be not so bad-tempered and shrewish but still let me be my own woman. Not to mention he and Kate totally defy social standards.
Anyway, back on subject, I got to read Kate's part in the scene where she first meets Petruchio. The verbal sparring is so much fun to perform if you interpret it as not so domineering on the man's part. It made up for my off-day last class. It's like what Shaun White said: you'll have a really good day after a bad one and vice versa (although I think it was more than a bad day that led to him winning the Olympic gold in snowboarding).
Tonight our RA's hosted a study break that involved Show 'n Tell. It brought back good elementary school memories. I told the story behind one of my shirts: it was the one I wore when I met a BMX rider who eventually became an X Games gold medalist. ^_^
Quote of the day (from "The Taming of the Shrew"):
Petruchio -"Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail."
Kate - "In his tongue."
Petruchio - "Whose tongue?"
Kate - "Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell."
Petruchio - "What, with my tongue in your tail?" (Oh, Shakespearean language can be so vulgar!)
Show 'n Tell