I'm working on a project about Taming of the Shrew in school. Gods, I hate it. Don't get me wrong, power to the 'Speare and all that, really -he's smart assed enough to be just on the right side of perverted- but this play is seriously messed up and it disgusts me. Now, I don't have a lot of strong opinions (they can be summed up thusly: Books are good; art is good; the universe is mindblowingly awesome; and self medical diagnosis is stupid), but TotS really creeped me out.

       Seriously, the only this stopping Petruchio putting a shock collar on Katherina was lack of availability. And she's clearly been brainwashed by the end! "Women are feeble and designed to please their husbands; DISAGREEMENT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!"; how is that a natural progression from "You made a fool of me at the alter on our own wedding day, if you want to go home you can go without me, you asshat,"? Stolkholm syndrome isn't funny, and neither is spousal abuse.

      I've heard the argument made that that was acceptable behavior for the time period -I don't care. I've never lived in any time or place where that kind of this was alright, and I think accepting it because 'it was a different time' is a really crappy excuse. Its impossible to not apply the standards of the society we live in to other things in the world, and in this case I'm prepared to not even try.

Had a seven hour french exam today- to be fair, three of those hours were waiting. At one point, I got so far ahead that I had 50mins to kill, maybe an hour. I decided to draw on the back of my test (I wasn't allowed my book or anything to occupy, you know?).

50 minutes = one badass pencil dragon

It had a feather ruff and was breathing fire, which I think is probably a big 'up yours' to Darwin...

ANYWAY- when the teacher/supervisor came around to collect the tests she saw my dragon and smiled at me. Not a 'what a nice drawing smile', or even a 'my god, you didn't even DO the test, did you?' smile.

No, it was a 'you poor, deranged child; how I pity your parents' smile.

Damn you Naomi Novik and your addictive 'everything is better with dragons' philosophy. Damn you to a specfic convention.

So, spent the holidays around my cousin's new baby girl; that was about as fun as hugging a bad tempered hedgehog... I hate kids...

Foolish Lovers

 

There was a time, not long before the stars had set,

Before he loved his lover's love, when he

Would sit and laugh at other lovers when they met

In the park. A moment too short in time now to truly be.

 

And now! -How he laughs and smiles at the

Smallest of things; swears his love's smile is the loveliest,

Though I have seen too many and many still I will see

To be impressed by a simple smile and call it best.

 

Oh, watch them coo and simper with a sickening

Constance, as others sigh and recount fond recollections

Of when they were lovers. The air around them thickening

With words tender and loving and sweet as infections.

 

Oh, the things that these foolish lovers do,

Like try to make you a foolish lover too.

 
"She's got to have some sort of book buying OCD."

Just finished Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. It was brilliant. It took me [exactly] 100 pages to realise one of the main characters was a vampire. And the best part? It didn't freaking matter! It was important but utterly unimportant at the same time. (Raise your hand if that made no sense-) It mattered that he was what he was, but the fact that he was a vampire was beside the point.

Found out yesterday that Neil Gaiman wrote one of next year's Doctor Who eps aswell.

One day I hope that Gaiman and Diana Wynne Jones have a book baby together. It shall be The One True Novel and will rule over all others.

Now, can anyone tell me if there's going to be a sequel?

I just plugged in my jump drive to clean up some photos and stuff, right? Well, while I was looking through all the pictures and music I found a .doc (I.doc) there. Could this be some old, forgotten school project, returned from the ether? So I opened it. At first I thought it was some crappy depressing poem I had written in one of my more 'down' moment; after the first stanza I realized it probably wasn't. On further investigation I found that it seems to be the first seven pages of the 16 Candles movie.

Where the hell did that come from?

Just finished listening to the BBC's Old Harry's Game and Undone. Can't find any info anywhere on whether either'll be on again or not. Why can't that website be straight forward? DAMN YOU INTERNET! DAMN YOU! How did I finish 8 seasons worth of radio shows in two days, you might ask, well, it begins with between 12 and 14 hours working on a canvas...but only the background... So, if anyone has an answer please let me know.

Should post something...something of substance...

Just finished reading the Percy Jackson series. Gods, I love those books; they're the first books I've enjoyed reading in a long time. It's not even that the books are especially good, but they're funny and the guy who writes them really knows his greek mythos.

ERG! Life is being difficult again. So very busy...

Helping out with the school play (can't act worth a dime, but I make a good light and sound monkey). Rosco seems to try and make their site as hard to navigate as possible. Why can't I just order straight from the site? Why do I have to put my order through your site but buy them from some local store that may not have them. DAMN YOU FOR HAVING SUCH A GOOD SELECTION THAT I CAN'T BE BOTHERED LOOKING ELSEWHERE! DAMN YOU TO HECK!

Reading The Great Gatsby in english. What fun. I don't really get the book, are Nick and Daisy cousins or not? Still, if it weren't for the student teacher, we'd be doing Macbeth until the end of the school year, and that is no exaggeration.

My bio teacher thinks I'm crazy; actually the exact quote went something like this:
(P.S. The selected Gobos for the play. Grease is going to be fun this year.)

To everyone dateless today, I commend you. To everyone else, you suck.