Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Two more days of classes. One more week of this quarter. Thank goodness.

Had to go watch W;t for Intertextuality. It's a great film, though very emotionally taxing. Even though I've seen it multiple times, it still affects me. It was actually my first introduction to John Donne, whom I love. And because of W;t, Sonnet x (VI in the play) has always been one of my favorites.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou are not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee;
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then they stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, death, thou shalt die.

Anyway, I got back from the film and cried for a bit. Then Natasha and I practiced our Spanish skit for tomorrow and I moved on to watching Stronge Bad E-mail and now Sean of the Dead is playing in the background. Meanwhile, I can't frelling wait for this week to be over. This week and this quarter. I *need* a break. I want to go home and do nothing and not be bothered and just *relax* for a week. (Well, relax and help take care of Dad.)

In film news, there is now a trailer out for the new Pride & Prejudice that is "coming soon." Apparently in September I hear. OMG, I'm so excited. I think it's going to be good. They show part of the first proposal and Darcy looks like his heart is breaking. I hate to say it, because it's practically blasphemy to P&P fans, but I could see myself liking this Darcy, or the Darcy I see in the trailer, better than Colin Firth's Darcy. In Matthew MacFadyen's Darcy there just seems to be something more...melancholy. According to the people RoP, MM saw Darcy as "a young man who's lost, who's grieving for his parents and has this huge responsibility of running the house and looking after his sister - which is construed as hauteur and arrogance. People are usually only haughty because of fear." And, y'know, I can go for that. Darcy's arrogant because he thinks his slightly better than people, and then is even more arrogant because it's a defense mechanism to keep people from really bothering him about any of it. Hey, it's an interpretation. More than CF's Darcy, the one in the trailer really seems like the type of man who even a small smile would mean worlds from. I just...want to wrap him up and give him tea.

At this moment, I don't care if it's faithful to the novel and the time period or not. It looks good. And MM looks like he's going to be a great Darcy that I can get behind. Besides, I did end up loving the most recent Mansfield Park.

But I want to see it *now*.

I like how a couple of posts ago the subject ("I'd Walk to You if I Could Trust My Feet") really went nicely with the SG-1 icon and the wormhole and everything. Coincidence!


Today has been a loooong day. I can't believe it's only Monday (::checks watch:: technically Tuesday now).

Spanish is Spanish. Intertextuality is spiffy. Dr. McDowell is fantastic. Catholic Traditions is going to be very dry. Work is exactly the same as it has always been.

Got back from work and watched part two of the SGA season finale again. They're as mean as Farscape with their cliff-hangers. They've had two and they've both been crap! Not "crap" as in "bad," but "crap" as in "that was a really crappy way to end an episode because I am emotionally involved and can't wait three months for more." Yeah, so the good kinda crap, the hurts-so-bad-it's-good kind. Or something.

I hope hope *hope* they don't ever decide to kill off Zelenka. When Shep mentions that they'll be fine if McKay and Zelenka can do blah blah blah, Zelenka gets this look on his face that's actually kind of Willow-esque and it's great and I hope he stays on the show. He'll be in part of next season at least, because the actor has sort of mentioned things in interviews.

Oh great, now I'm thinking about who on SGA would be who on Buffy. ::facepalm:: What's scary is that I've already figured out how Rodney is like Wesley.

May be writing yet another something. Have to think about something while I'm shifting. :)

I kinda feel like Winky in my icon. ::points::

So, watching SV with Neesha totally made me love it again. Yea! I should actually try to write that fanfic for Natasha...I'm such a bad writer. (Not quality, but actually doing things.) Or I should work on the KS thing...Hmm...

When is the WB going to start showing new eps? I want double the Lex now. Not Clark getting married while hopped up on RedK. Sheesh. Although the bit with him and Alicia in the barn before they run off to Vegas? Damn funny. Anyhoo.

It's already Thursday of my spring break. Only...about 4 more days until classes start yet again. Blah. Grades are out for Winter Quarter though. I don't suck as much as I thought! Go team me.

Survey of Brit Lit II: A
Lit Pix: B+
Spanish II: A-

Which means I may be on the Dean's List for a third time (twice in a row even). But, hey, check out that B+. I was certain I wasn't going to do better than maybe a C because of the papers. So when I saw that I just about had a fit. It's a good day when your grades exceed your expectations.

This afternoon Mom and I are going to go to Moses and then we're going to come back and maybe dye my hair and definitely watch more SG-1 season one. I get such a kick out of that show.

Grades for Fall Quarter are out.

Survey of American Literature: A-
Spanish Language 1: B+
Philosophy of the Human Person: A

Not too shabby for a crap quarter, huh? :) I'm particularly pleased with the philosophy grade because, yeah, it's *philosophy*. That crap's not easy.

Go me.

Anyway, I'm going to have to share this with Sara when I get back to school. I think she'll appreciate the ridiculousness of what they were trying to do to The Sandman and the genius of one Neil Gaiman. As much as I'd love to see a movie, I'd love even more to see a *great* movie that follows the story. I'm picky like that sometimes. I remember reading this a long time ago, and thankfully the date is 1998. Which indicates, lord do I hope it indicates, that it's been dropped.

Geez. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

Wonder if NG will get mentioned in Lit Pix? One would hope so.

Today is the first day all week where I can sit back, smile, and say "Today is a good day." And not in the Klingon kinda way, because no.

And even though I have a paper due Monday, Tuesday, and next Friday, today is a good day. For some reason my mood is remarkably improved since yesterday. It may possibly have something to do with no work tonight, or the Philosophy exam being done, or Dr. Berry's comment when I turned my exam in, or Rick literally running into me at Cherry St. Whatever the reason, I don't feel like curling up in a ball and crying. Woo.

It's just stress and icky flu-like crap, but still.

So now it's just:

-Friday - Spanish skit
-WEEKEND - THANK GOODNESS, but writing, writing, writing
-Monday - English presentation and paper; Work
-Tuesday - English paper; Work
-Wednesday - Work
-Thursday - Spanish final
-Friday - Philosophy final paper; English Final
-Saturday - Hopefully HOME, or going home, or at K&G's

Y'know what's funny? I didn't do/haven't done some of the readings for my English class, but I did all of the readings for Philosophy. I really enjoyed the class and the readings. Almost enough to make me consider Philosophy as a minor. Which kind of freaks me out. It won't happen though, because some of that stuff just bores and confuses me like nothing else.

Anyhoo. Back to work!

I really wish this whole week was free of school instead of just the last half of it. I mean, really, why keep us here for Monday and Tuesday? At any rate, Dad and Grandma are coming to get me on Wednesday. They'll pick me up, and we'll drop Grandma off at John and Janet's, and Dad and I will go home. (Weather permitting.) Yea!

All well and good until I think of the several things I have due not long after Thanskgiving is over. Oi. It's going to be fine, and I *know* it's going to be fine, but that doesn't stop the part of me that's heading toward a mini-freak out. Just feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment. And things just keep piling up.

That's the one bad thing about a quarter system over semesters. Once you get into it, you're so busy trying to stay on top of it all that it becomes really hard to catch your breath. And when you try, you end up behind. And then it's even more of a race to catch up. And at this time in the quarter I just want to say "Oh, fuck it" and curl up with a book *for fun* and not do anything graded ever again. This isn't a bad, depression thing. It's just a "blah, I need a break!" thing. A break that does not require you to complete any assignments while you're breaking. 'Cause that's cheating.

And soon I'm going to have to go to American Lit and I haven't even finished chapter one of The Ox-Bow Incident. Whoops. Although I'm completely caught up in the rest of the reading! Woo. After class I need to continue looking over Tennessee Williams stuff and finish the questions over de Beauvoir and Kimmel for Philosophy. AND work on the on-line Spanish workbook. And go to work.

Blah.

I was able to include Terry Pratchett and Discworld in one of my study question answers for the Nietzsche reading in Philosophy. I rock!

Also, I will bet money that when you read this you pronounce "Nietzsche" wrong. Except, obviously, those of you who have had philosophy classes. No money for you! Just education. Go education!

Un examen en la clase de espanol por la manana. Blah.

Well, I said I'd post about classes and so now I'm gonna do that. Partly because I said I would and partly because I like to hear myself type. :)


Spanish Language 1 (SPAN 115 - M-F, not Th) should be fun. Hopefully fairly easy as well. Not easy easy, but relatively easy. I really like the professor so far. She's pretty energetic and very smiley. The class itself is small-ish. Today we were randomly put in twos and asked to do an impromptu conversation. Easy. I still can't role my r's though. rrrrrrrr.

Survey of American Literature (ENGL 254 - M, W) is going to be interesting. Kasey's there, so at least there's someone to talk to. And giggle with. Because half of the things mentioned during class in the first day alone linked back to Eddie Izzard. It's a good thing 'cause it makes it more fun. It's a bad thing because I want to bust out laughing half of the time. The professor is going to totally notice it and be all "Explain yourself" and I'm going to be all "the French Banana War....Mormons *are* from Mars....that would be laughable..." But, y'know, it's fun. We'll be reading several things I've read already, which is good for me. Yea.

Philosophy of the Human Person (PHIL 220 - T, Th) is also going to be interesting. This is the class that Julia recommended to me. It's part of the woman's studies program and the professor is very intense and kinda nutty. But in a good way. Definitely gonna be a bit of a challenge, but we get to read exciting things like Frankenstein so I'm good. So far.

Also looks like I'll be working Monday through Wednesday. 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM on Tuesdays.

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Lost premiered on Wednesday. Went over to Campion and watched it with Kasey, Kit, Katie, and Natasha. Had a good time, though not entirely sure what I think about it. It's got potential, but some of it is a little, I dunno, cliched? off? There's something about certain parts of it that are a little too horror-movie-of-the-week y'know? Plus the slightly long-ish monologues of exposition. All in all I'd say I enjoyed it. I'd like to see more because I am especially intrigued about what's mauling people. (I was gonna see "eating", but the pilot seemed mostly whole to me.)

But this is all coming from the girl who watched her brother play Resident Evil: Code Veronica (I think it was that one) just because she wanted to know what the hell was really going on.

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Our door mirror now says: "Don't tease me about my hobbies. I don't tease you about being an asshole." Everyone ever should go see Garden State. I've now seen it twice with Mom. Whee.