So, lately I have been up to here with frustrating and annoying circumstances and people, be they teachers or friends or life in general, so it's good to have things to amuse me. I finished Wuthering Heights yesterday (it was so good), and so I was looking at art for it (I loved that book so much omg) and found this (read that book) bit of art (RIGHT NOW) which amused me:


I AM HEATHCLIFF by ~bananafish67 on deviantART

It is only funny if you've read Wuthering Heights AND know Stephen Colbert, but I'm pretty sure that people on the f-list have mostly done at least half.

#3 for 365 photos.



It's a little dude who grows grass. I think it was sent from Japan. It's on the bookshelf chilling with the old Japanese books.

I went to the bookstore with my friend today and bought Foucault's Pendulum, which I am quite looking forward to reading. Then we went off and saw Valkyrie.

I think my biggest issue with Valkyrie was Tom Cruise. I just kept feeling like he didn't fit the part. At least it wasn't Brad Pitt, though. ._. I would've loved it if the movie had been in German, with, well... German people, but I guess that no one in America would go to the theatre and pay money to watch something with subtitles. Even though I knew it was in English, I was still kind of sad that they fake you out at the beginning and are like, "Look, we're doing this in German, and just have subtitles!" and then Tom Cruise starts talking and they're like, "PSYCHE!"

Overall, the movie was pretty good, I'd say. It got positively painful to watch, though, when it looks like everything is going to go well, because you know it will all fall apart, and you're just anticipating it the whole time. I won't spoil the ending, but I will say there's an incredibly depressing firing squad scene.

Tomorrow the last day of vacation. It's very sad. I had a lot of plans for vacation that didn't go through... Ah well, c'est la vie.

The Arabian Nights is kind of funny, because the whole premise, the whole thing which gives the conflict, is that the Sultan's wife was unfaithful. Heck, so was his brother's wife. And so, since zomg evil womens can't be trusted!!!1!!, he takes to killing his wives, getting a new one everyday. But then, it's a women who steps in to save the day with her wits and her cleverness. So, women are witty and clever, but because of this they can never be trusted. That is what it seems to be saying so far. It would probably help if I got further on in the book.

It would also probably help if I devoted this much energy to my summer reading for school. Hrrrmph. I go back to school on the 27th and I still have two whole books to read. I shall triumph!! ...if I can figure out what the books mean.

So, today's writer's block is "What happened to you today?" Does that seem a bit silly to anyone but me?

Also, I don't know what to do tomorrow. Lately I've started doing this terrible thing where I sleep in until 11 and then I don't actually do anything until noon. I just feel so laaaaazy, but I can't exactly seem to get up any earlier. And then, there's not much I want to do anyway. -_________-

But, summer is almost over so I must get some stuff done. (Like summer reading, for instance.) I kinda want to bake stuff, because baking is fun, but it doesn't feel like real baking unless I do it from scratch. Sure, cake mixes are fun and easy, but I kinda want to make something other than cake. I suppose that'll mean searching for a recipe. I need to think of projects to keep me from going crazy this coming year, because I'm going to be very bored with my sister and one of my best friends leaving the state. So far, I can think of sewing clothes and making a cook book. Why is it that the things I think of to occupy my time would be so very frowned upon by feminists?

Anyhow, it's clear that I don't really have anything to say. I got the unabridged Arabian Nights. And I have a new song I really like! It's sort of like and happy and fun, "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. It isn't the style I'd normally listen to, but I really like it. It's very hippie-ish.

And my sister is leaving in about two weeks which is very sad. ):

Here's the day you hoped would never come
Don't feed me violins,
just run with me through rows of speeding cars
The papercuts, the cheating lovers
The coffee's never strong enough
I know you think it's more than just bad luck

There, there, baby
it's just text book stuff
it's in the ABC of growing up
Now, now, darling
oh don't lose your head
'cause none of us were angels
and you know I love you, yeah


Today was a Speeding Cars day. That is, a day when you go home and you just listen to "Speeding Cars" on repeat. It's a good song for just about any mood, especially the type which are that brand of complicated that doesn't warrant description.
( band rant! )

On a totally different and more optimistic note, reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight got me thinking about the whole concept of going and seeking your fortune. Nobody does that any more. I mean, they do, but it's boring. I'd rather hear someone say "When I came of age, I set off into the wilderness and sought out fortune and reknown" than, "When I graduated from high school I got a job and worked my way up the corporate ladder." No matter what anyone might try and do, the corporate ladder will never be even remotely romantic. I think it would be possible to seek your fortune in an interesting way still, but it'd be really, really difficult. And everyone would think you're crazy. Not to mention, random strangers are no longer willing to give lodging and food to random passers-by. If I were to knock on a door and say, "I've been traveling looking for a man who I'm going to have a duel with on New Year's, but I haven't found him and it's nearly Christmas so can I just stay ant your place until after the holiday?" I'm rather sure I'd be turned down without a word. I mean, I'd be lucky if they didn't call the police or something. Srsly people.
( etc. )

There were Marine recruiters outside the cafeteria today. It was intimidating. I tried to steer clear of them but one of them managed to wordlessly pass a business-card-type-thing to me. I passed it off on my science teacher, because I would feel bad throwing it away, for whatever reason. Bleh. I really don't like recruiters. Or rather, I have nothing against them personally; I just dislike the activity of recruiting people.

Drama club has been getting more intense lately, because we're performing Friday. I don't think we're ready... I really don't. Most of the people are really working hard, of course, but the handful that aren't taking it seriously at all could really ruin it. -.- Hopefully, though, it'll all turn out just fine. *crosses fingers* Apparently, though I'd never heard of it, everyone and their mother performed Once Upon a Mattress when they were in high school (and everyone and their mother all somehow played the lead role).

Also, I started reading Pride & Prejudice (again), and am loving it. However, at the back, there were these quotes from what people of the time wrote about Jane Austen's work, and as it turns out, Charlotte Brontë didn't like Pride & Prejudice. For whatever reason, this makes me a little bit sad. Obviously, part of it is that I love Austen's books and want other people to, but also, it's Charlotte Brontë, and somehow, I feel like she should like Jane Austen's books. But then, I haven't read any of Brontë's, though I've been told they're rather darker/sadder than Austen's. So, I suppose it makes sense. At any rate, I'd love to draw up a manga of Pride & Prejudice, though I'm not quite sure how I'd go about the beginning...

Finally, for those who want to know, ( the answers for the movie meme )

Made by the same guy who made the web 2.0 "The Machine is Us/ing Us" video.

Some of the information (actually, most of information) on here is very sad. Some of it applies to me, like the average of seven hours of sleep nightly. I think I really spend too much time on the computer. These days it's more art stuff than internet stuff, but still. I used to sped time outside a lot more. Most of my friends aren't really interested in doing things outdoors. Still, I could go outside myself.

I don't watch much TV. The only TV show that I watch on the air is the Simpsons, but I watch DVDs of stuff with friends, and with Netflix I see a lot of movies, so I can't say I don't spend a lot of time in front of the television. I don't have a cell phone, though.

What worried me the most was the part in the video where the girl holds up a sign saying "I will read 8 books this year, and (some thousand) webpages." That probably could've been me. I used to read a lot of books. I remember when I was reading Anne McCaffery's novels, I never wanted to put them down. That was three years ago. This summer, I read four books for English class, one book for History, and one book for fun. That's probably the most reading I've done in a long time. I need to read more. I don't want my... well, my intellect in general to slip. So, I want to do something. I want to, and I will.

On another note, as I was copying the URL of that video and going to livejournal to post it, I just suddenly thought, "Wow. This is the ever-so-famous thing everyone talks about, a piece of information being shared by one person to another through the internet. This is how a message is really able to be broadcast." Isn't it amazing that we live in an age where anyone can spread word about something with ease?

Yes, for Hallowe'en, I'm going to be *insert drumroll* a highwayman!! And of course, I'm far too old to go trick-or-treating now, but I do need a costume for costume parties, and the Hallowe'en dance, should I choose to go. Sadly, I can't find any good pictures of highwaymen. Does anyone know where I can look?

Also, I figured since I'm being a highwayman, I might as well go all out on the costume and make it as authentic as possible and bind my chest and all that stuff. I'll finally be dressing in drag. XD And then my life will be complete... or something.

And now, the meme~

Stolen from lomundra:

Librarythings 106 most "unread" books. Bold what you've read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, cross out what you couldn't stand, underline what you want to read but haven't yet.
( below the cut )