I were a wordier person. I am trying to write a 3 page paper done on two interviews I did for collaboration. I am barely getting 1 page right now. This is not the first time I have wished this. I blame Mr. Woolf for my non wordiness.
Mr. Woolf said that the wordier one is the studier you are. And in so many ways that is true. Just think about it. Nearly everyone has had a teacher that just keeps repeating themselves and nearly everyone will think that teacher an idiot.
Take to note my Intro to Africans professor. I hate her class. We will watch a movie and then she will take 30 minutes to explain what the movie was about. Seriously, I might as well skip the movie and then show up for the 30 min explaination. Though I think the movies are more interesting.
I also regret not taking more time to write on the blog because I have some amazing observations about the education system and in the education program. Plus life has been weird. So I am going to try to post on a regular basis Mon-Thrus.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Day from Hell
Today is only the second day of classes and it can only go up from here.
My main problem is I generally have morning classes, I am not a morning person. I could not fall asleep last night until about 3-4 amish only to have to get up at 6:30ish to get to my first class.
My problem with falling asleep was I had something tickling the back of my throat and every time I put my head down I had to cough. Then only one of my nostrils was runny and well I was constantly sneezing.
The only plus about not being able to fall asleep I finished the book Mr. Darcy Presents his Bride: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Helen Halstead. Now this was really the only first Pride and Prejudice continuation that was actually worth reading. My first attempt was a book called Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued. Pemberley was truly one of the worst novels I have ever read. I could not even finish it. The characters that I have loved so much were all so wrong.
Now the book I finished last night was decent, not the greatest but better. I never really understood the concept that a novel only really develops the plot or the characterizations. To tell the truth I had only heard of this concept recently on NPR from Nancy Pearl the author of Book Lust. But Halstead was trying to do both. She tried to have a plot while developing the characters. At times the characterizations were great she stayed to the characters that Jane Austen and added her own little something. But during those time there was no plot. And then even though there was a plot and was a really weak plot. Also Halstead had one to many new characters that is was hard to keep track of all of them.
Now back to the day from Hell......
So I got a new phone, a stylish Blackberry Pearl and well I hate it, I cannot get it to do what I want it to do. I think I might change phones again. So because I was pissed at my phone I left it at home.
Only to have my tire go flat right when I am turning into campus. So I walked up to campus went to class, stats (please somebody kill me now). After class called campus police for some assistance and then I started changing my tire and have all these cars looking at me and about half way through changing a tire a guy stops and finishes the job. Then he is practically done putting the doughnut on, when the campus police come. Now I am off to my only night class.
Oh to top matters I went to Chipotle after my class and some how a fly landed in my juice.
My main problem is I generally have morning classes, I am not a morning person. I could not fall asleep last night until about 3-4 amish only to have to get up at 6:30ish to get to my first class.
My problem with falling asleep was I had something tickling the back of my throat and every time I put my head down I had to cough. Then only one of my nostrils was runny and well I was constantly sneezing.
The only plus about not being able to fall asleep I finished the book Mr. Darcy Presents his Bride: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Helen Halstead. Now this was really the only first Pride and Prejudice continuation that was actually worth reading. My first attempt was a book called Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued. Pemberley was truly one of the worst novels I have ever read. I could not even finish it. The characters that I have loved so much were all so wrong.
Now the book I finished last night was decent, not the greatest but better. I never really understood the concept that a novel only really develops the plot or the characterizations. To tell the truth I had only heard of this concept recently on NPR from Nancy Pearl the author of Book Lust. But Halstead was trying to do both. She tried to have a plot while developing the characters. At times the characterizations were great she stayed to the characters that Jane Austen and added her own little something. But during those time there was no plot. And then even though there was a plot and was a really weak plot. Also Halstead had one to many new characters that is was hard to keep track of all of them.
Now back to the day from Hell......
So I got a new phone, a stylish Blackberry Pearl and well I hate it, I cannot get it to do what I want it to do. I think I might change phones again. So because I was pissed at my phone I left it at home.
Only to have my tire go flat right when I am turning into campus. So I walked up to campus went to class, stats (please somebody kill me now). After class called campus police for some assistance and then I started changing my tire and have all these cars looking at me and about half way through changing a tire a guy stops and finishes the job. Then he is practically done putting the doughnut on, when the campus police come. Now I am off to my only night class.
Oh to top matters I went to Chipotle after my class and some how a fly landed in my juice.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Book Club
So much for my changing my class schedule so that I did not have a class on Fridays. Because of the change I now have a night class that is on Tuesday. My problem is that my book club I attend is on Tuesday nights, I have class on Tuesday night. Bugger bugger bugger.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Finshing a series
I have been listening to the The Lost Years of Merlin series by T. A. Baron. I have just recently finished the second book and I am not sure if I am going to finish the series. Not because it sucks because then it would be an easy decision. My problem is that my library only has the first three books in audio and not the last two.
Yes, I could read the last two books but there is something different about reading and listening to books. It is hard to explain but there is. If I get into a series by listening to the books it is nearly impossible to read the actual books.
So I might go ahead and listen to the third book and then wait for the far off future until I can get my hands onto the last two books on audio. But then I don't want to get anymore involved in the story because it will be a long time before I can listen to the last two books.
The series is good but I think I have finished with it.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
The Darcy Debate
It is a truth universally acknowledge that Colin Firth is the ultimate Mr. Darcy. Firth played Mr. Darcy in the 1995 A & E version of P&P and then played Mark Darcy in the Morden day Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones Diary. Yet, because of the new Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice, I beg to differ.
Firth is dark and forboding and delivers the lines excellently and everyone loves the pond scene. Yet, I find myself watching the Keira Knightly verison more then the 95 version, one because it is shorter and secondinly I like Matthew Macfedyen. For me Macfedyen protrays the fact that Darcy might be trying flirt early on in the aquantince.
So if I had to choose I would go with Macfedyen.
Speaking of P&P I went and saw Becoming Jane tonight with my sister. I enjoyed the movie and liked the fact that it kept to what really happend in Jane Austen's life and not giving her the guy in the end.
While at the movies I actually told a couple of older women sitting behind me, "to stop talking because it is kind of annoying". When they left the poured some water on my purse. So as a common curtious please do not comment on a movie while the movie is in progress.
Firth is dark and forboding and delivers the lines excellently and everyone loves the pond scene. Yet, I find myself watching the Keira Knightly verison more then the 95 version, one because it is shorter and secondinly I like Matthew Macfedyen. For me Macfedyen protrays the fact that Darcy might be trying flirt early on in the aquantince.
So if I had to choose I would go with Macfedyen.
Speaking of P&P I went and saw Becoming Jane tonight with my sister. I enjoyed the movie and liked the fact that it kept to what really happend in Jane Austen's life and not giving her the guy in the end.
While at the movies I actually told a couple of older women sitting behind me, "to stop talking because it is kind of annoying". When they left the poured some water on my purse. So as a common curtious please do not comment on a movie while the movie is in progress.
The Start
I signed up for a blog because I wanted to start writing reviews, but I never started.
It Starts Now.
Though this start might not have a ton of reviews at the beginning and I might write about things or thoughts that are going on in my life. I am not that great of a writer but I enjoy it. I usually find it a nice way to vent, I do not intend for this blog to be emu style.
Plus, it might give me something to do to avoid the busy work.
So it is about 4:50 in the morning and I am finally going to bed. My job keeps me up late but I love it.
It Starts Now.
Though this start might not have a ton of reviews at the beginning and I might write about things or thoughts that are going on in my life. I am not that great of a writer but I enjoy it. I usually find it a nice way to vent, I do not intend for this blog to be emu style.
Plus, it might give me something to do to avoid the busy work.
So it is about 4:50 in the morning and I am finally going to bed. My job keeps me up late but I love it.
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