Sorry. I forgot you, blog.
So I started researching for my senior honors thesis today. I'm rereading all of Vonnegut's novels in chronological order. I don't know what I'm writing about yet, I figured I'll just read until something comes to me. I'll keep you posted.
Chris and I cleaned a lot today with the help of his mom. We move in about a week and a half. Nothing is packed yet, but at least we got some cleaning out of the way. The bathroom looks absolutely amazing.
Umm.. that is all.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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Don't die blog. I know I haven't been good to you, but I'll change. I swear I'll change!
End of the semester- drawing dangerously near. Reading my last book for Jane Austen right now. I love Jane Austen, but I'm ready to throw up! Reading all of her books in six weeks is a method of torture. Really.
So a lot has happened since we last met, Sir Blog. I got promoted, worked too much, wanted to pull my hair out, wanted to burn down our store, had no time to be happy, stepped down, and the other day I was bored for the first time in months. Being bored is FABULOUS, you people just don't know! Oh yeah, that German class I was taking? Dropped it. The Stats class I was taking? C. Working full time and going to school is the stupidest idea I've ever had. I could never do both jobs to the best of my ability, first giving up school, and then slacking off at work. Not doin' it again.
So what am I reading? JANE AUSTEN. We're currently reading Persuasion, her last novel and the last we have to read. We're exploring the Romantic elements of the story. I took a break from her on Wednesday and reread The Phantom Tollbooth. I love kid's books. They're so fantastic! TPT is all about how it takes language, math, reason, and "rhyme" to make a well balanced society. I dunno about math, but whatever, if you say so. To summarize the plot a little, this boy, who is incredibly bored with his life, comes home from school one day and there's a tollbooth in his room. So he goes through it, visits the kingdom where words are grown (yea, on trees), travels through the valleys of sound and sight, through the mines where numbers are procured, and climbs to a castle in the sky to rescue two princesses- Rhyme and Reason. What everyone fails to tell him is that the mission is impossible, but of course they tell him that afterward. It's a great book, and a two hour read.
I also read The Namesake, which was alright. I think I was a little lost because I'm not Indian and I don't know any of the culture and traditions that were being described in the book. It was aimed exclusively toward one audience, unless you were really aiming to get it and googled everything, then I guess you would get the best out of it. I also read Anna in the Tropics, which is about the workers in a cigar factory and how they have a man read to them while their rolling cigars. The reader reads Anna Karenina and everyone gets all love crazy and Mr. Reader man ends up getting shot. It was really strange, but I loved the amount of old world cigar roller tradition was involved. It made me want a cigar, too.
End of the semester- drawing dangerously near. Reading my last book for Jane Austen right now. I love Jane Austen, but I'm ready to throw up! Reading all of her books in six weeks is a method of torture. Really.
So a lot has happened since we last met, Sir Blog. I got promoted, worked too much, wanted to pull my hair out, wanted to burn down our store, had no time to be happy, stepped down, and the other day I was bored for the first time in months. Being bored is FABULOUS, you people just don't know! Oh yeah, that German class I was taking? Dropped it. The Stats class I was taking? C. Working full time and going to school is the stupidest idea I've ever had. I could never do both jobs to the best of my ability, first giving up school, and then slacking off at work. Not doin' it again.
So what am I reading? JANE AUSTEN. We're currently reading Persuasion, her last novel and the last we have to read. We're exploring the Romantic elements of the story. I took a break from her on Wednesday and reread The Phantom Tollbooth. I love kid's books. They're so fantastic! TPT is all about how it takes language, math, reason, and "rhyme" to make a well balanced society. I dunno about math, but whatever, if you say so. To summarize the plot a little, this boy, who is incredibly bored with his life, comes home from school one day and there's a tollbooth in his room. So he goes through it, visits the kingdom where words are grown (yea, on trees), travels through the valleys of sound and sight, through the mines where numbers are procured, and climbs to a castle in the sky to rescue two princesses- Rhyme and Reason. What everyone fails to tell him is that the mission is impossible, but of course they tell him that afterward. It's a great book, and a two hour read.
I also read The Namesake, which was alright. I think I was a little lost because I'm not Indian and I don't know any of the culture and traditions that were being described in the book. It was aimed exclusively toward one audience, unless you were really aiming to get it and googled everything, then I guess you would get the best out of it. I also read Anna in the Tropics, which is about the workers in a cigar factory and how they have a man read to them while their rolling cigars. The reader reads Anna Karenina and everyone gets all love crazy and Mr. Reader man ends up getting shot. It was really strange, but I loved the amount of old world cigar roller tradition was involved. It made me want a cigar, too.
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