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This is literally all I've been doing for the past two weeks:
- reading
- watching TV/movies
- using the computer
I've been out of the house twice to go get blood drawn at the doctor's, but that's it. 8| I AM. SO BORED. Hopefully I'll be going back to school next week, but if the mono test comes back positive they'll want me to stay out longer. As it is, the doctor recommended that I only go for half days for at least ten days after I start going back. I hope my teachers don't flip out.
ANYWAY. In other news, I've been marathoning Dexter online and am currently in the middle of 4x07. I LOVE IT, and I have some theories about something but I don't want to get into it here because I don't feel like spoiler-cutting, so ask in the comments if you really care to know.
AND LASTLY, AS PROMISED, my list of excellent kids' books for
lovesnotwisely (the ones that are starred are especially amazing):( I read kidlit too much but I don't care )
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- Mood:
sleepy - Music:Birds.
Every Day and All the Time by Sis Deans is one of my favorite books ever. I'm SO glad I bought it to re-read; I like it even more than Barbara Park's Mick Harte Was Here (which deals with the same sort of issue, and has been a favorite of mine since I was nine or so). It'd definitely going on my list of books that I need revisit at least every couple of years or so. In a way, it's a good thing that a lot of the books on that list are short and easy reads-- I like being able to marathon my way through four Bruce Coville books in one day, or spend a weekend reading Hilary McKay's books about the Cassons (... or just read Indigo's Star and Permanent Rose over and over and over again; that works, too).
TL;DR: I AM NINETEEN YEARS OLD AND I BUY MOST OF MY BOOKS FROM THE CHILDREN'S SECTION.
... I can read adult literature when I want to, I swear.
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- Mood:
tired - Music:I GOT FOUR HOURS OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT AND I AM EXHAUSTED
( Cut because no one cares, Iddy. )
( Edit because lol another one; NOBODY BUT ME IS ACTUALLY GOING TO READ THIS HAHAHA )
( OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS what am I even doing )
( And idk this one's also interesting; SERIOUSLY, IGNORE ME )
EXACTLY THIS. All of this. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.
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- Mood: tired
- Music:lol I like psychology
We also bought a trampoline-- Jenny's wanted one for a while, and after going over to Sonja's house and using hers she decided that she needed one OMG NOW. So we had been pricing them all week, and we actually found a pretty good-quality one that wasn't very expensive. I'm more excited about the trampoline than the car, because apparently I have the maturity of a ten-year-old (but eh, I already knew that).
AND to top that all off, I got the last Pendragon book (because yes, I am still reading that series). Bobby looks middle-aged on the cover, y/y?
My summer class starts tomorrow, and I haven't been able to get any of the textbooks or materials yet. So we're going to Durham Book Exchange and/or Campus Bookstore tomorrow, and I'll do all the reading/preparatory work in the hours before class starts. FUN.
... I also had a dream last night that I was riding past the Durham shopping plaza on a moped (... seriously), and I saw Madame coming out of the DuMP and I was all, "OH YAY SHE'S NOT IN THE HOSPITAL ANYMORE 8D". But then I woke up and remembered that awwww, I still really have no idea how she's doing. Seriously, though-- that school has lost so many good teachers lately, for one reason or another. And Phetteplace and Herlihy are apparently retiring after this year. Phetteplace. Future generations will have no idea what it's like to have an escaped mental patient as a science teacher, and this makes me sad.
- Location:New Hampshuh
- Mood:
okay - Music:... There are animals (squirrels, probably) running around inside my walls. Yes.
... Also, my favorite character is Cersei Lannister (...a nd absolutely no one is surprised). Why do I always like the characters that are pretty much doomed to die?
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- Mood: tired
- Music:GO TO BED
THE NEW PENDRAGON BOOK CAME OUT ON THURSDAY AND I DIDN'T FIND OUT UNTIL TODAY. D: Rin is TOTALLY going to beat me in our reading race for this one; she's probably already finished it. Unfortunately, I'm definitely going to be very tempted to blow off more homework to read it tomorrow. Argh. I should also skim through the first eight books, though, just to familiarize myself with the story again... the last one came out about a year ago (I remember reading it while shopping for a skirt for the NFHS induction ceremony... heh), so I've kind of forgotten a lot of the details of the more recent books. Meh.
Seriously, though, this year seems to be a good year for new books in the series that I read- Artemis Fowl is coming in, like, August, and I think the last Inkheart book will be out in the fall. 2008 = best year ever, whoo.
While at Barnes & Noble I also took a quick look at the ending of that shitty Avatar book- I don't really want to spoil myself for *details*, but I really didn't want to wait till July (I think it's July) to find out who (if anyone) dies and crap. So yeah, I cleared that up. And I won't say anything specific, but I'm really, really happy. Like, ridiculously happy. WHOO.
Oh, and some of the pictures were ownage. Anyone know if they're screenshots?
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- Mood:
bouncy - Music:I use the 'bouncy' mood icon far too much.
... Just like you can't spell 'manslaughter' without 'laughter'. Or 'therapist' without 'the rapist'. But anyway...
I have:
One Peace Studies project due tomorrow.
One American Literature paper due Monday.
Another American Literature project due the 31st (this one has to be 8-10 pages long, too).
One U.S. History project due Wednesday.
And one Astronomy project due Friday.
Welcome to high school.
And that's not even counting the Astronomy test I had today, the History test we're having tomorrow, and the French test we're having Monday. But those don't really count, considering I'm not planning on studying for any of them. I haven't studied for a test since fifth grade, and I'm doing okay so far.
So. We're writing an analytical paper on The Scarlet Letter. Mrs. Sullivan stressed that we're not to use any external sources (though I really don't know how we're going to achieve this, considering half the class is reading the SparkNotes version)- yet we have to include a bibliography. The hell? What's the point, if we're only using one source- the friggin' book itself? Does she seriously think that we're dumb enough to put any external sources we illegally used in the Works Cited? Is this required bibliography just a lame attempt to weed out the 'sinners' (Oooh, Scarlet Letter joke) in the class? Probably not, but that would be pretty funny.
Anyway, now that we're essentially through with the book, I will never have to hear about Hester A. (Oooh, another Scarlet Letter joke) Prynne, whiny Arthur Dimmesdale, and not-so-demonic seven-year-olds ever again. At least, not until we're assigned the book again in a year or two. High school English classes seriously need to broaden their idea of American Literature- I've read To Kill a Mockingbird three times in the past four years. Luckily, I love that book to death. I couldn't say the same for The Scarlet Letter, though.
Not that I hated the book or anything. It was okay- but I've had enough symbolism shoved down my throat to last me a long, long while. And it's full of lines like this:
"As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play... and spoke gravely one to another:
'Behold, verily, there is the woman of the scarlet letter, and, of a truth, morover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side! Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!'" (page 98)
I mean, come on. I bet even tight-ass Puritan kids didn't talk like that. Hell, tight-ass Puritan adults probably didn't. And my mom calls me wordy...
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- Mood: slightly tired
- Music:Silence with an occasional sound.
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