- this is how i want my hair.
- actually, this is much more accurate. but my hair's stubbornly straight. :(
- i should read more of jane yolen's work.
- i hate when people alter the 'to be, or not to be--that is the question' quotation to whatever situation they see fit. you just shamed the most beautiful play. it is not witty.
- my flash drive on which i am storing my writings is named zelda fitzgerald.
- her relationship with her husbands makes me laugh, in a morbid and ironic sort of way. their frequent arguments were just entirely too dramatic.
- i want new glasses. i'll have to have my eyes reexamined, though.
- i must, must, must catch up on my history vocabulary notebook. and start my history practice ia. and figure out what i'm doing for my english iop. and study statistics so i don't humiliate myself at the next competition. oh, junior year of ib, you make me sad and so constantly tired. :(
- i'm torn between getting blunt bangs or not. growing the rest of my hair out or not.
- i can never simply look up my favourite quotations from books. the lines that mean something to me are never the ones that someone out there has deemed as 'the important' ones. i have to remember to write them down as i read.
- instead of going to sleep early last night, i stayed up later than i should have to write, actually actually write, for the first time in months. exactly five hundred words. those words made me happier and more proud than anything has in a long time. :)
- we did an ap lit and comp writing in class today. the passage was from 'johnny got his gun' and completely devoid of commas and quotation marks. a girl said that it was horribly written. i (yes, the one who lives off proper grammar) said that i actually kind of liked it. who would have thought that i'd bend grammatical rules in the name of narrative technique? formalities have their place, i've learnt.
- i love french so much. but lately, the homework has been getting so tedious.
- i've own the 2006 film version of 'all the king's men' for two months now and i still yet to watch it. i just found out that dr adam stanton, one of my biggest literary crushes, is played by mark ruffalo, the lead of '13 going on 30.' i'm currently at a lost as to exactly why i haven't watched it yet. perhaps i subconsciously fear that it will not do my favourite novel justice?
- just now, on my way home from school, franz joseph haydn's symphony no. 103 in Eb came on the radio. my gosh. and people say that classical music is boring. my mother commented on how it made her heart jump, haha. also, i need to listen to a lot more of haydn. :)
- listening to music, it amazes me. all it really is different waves, yet it changes into something so beautiful in perception. and to be able to tell apart instruments merely by sound? my gosh.
- having nice conversations with people make my day.
- i'm currently reading 'a moveable feast.' oh, hemingway, why must you be so wonderful? i don't have words enough for how much you and penn warren inspire me. :)
- "the classical strongman's guide to awesome abs," haha! i love it!
- apparently, essie's not just a pretty face is the 'most perfectly perfect pale pink polish.' without shimmer, too. :) i'm enamored by random things.
- caledonia is my favourite word. i have adored it upon hearing it, but i just now realised how truly beautiful and romantic it is. i still do love serendipity lots, though.
- learning how to play the guitar is one of my life goals. there is, however, a part of me that doesn't want to and for a completely vain reason. i kind of like my hands and long fingers. however, my right hand is ruined by a callus on my middle finger, a writer's bump. i don't want calluses on my left hand too. gah, what a superficial reason.
- i need to choose an elective for next year. as excited as i am about having an elective again, this means that i have to make a decision. which i am absolutely rubbish at.
- i'm currently thinking something related to theatre (stagecraft or musical theatre) or chorus.
- i'm not sure if it's ever been made apparent on here, but i tend to have a ridiculously sarcastic sense of humour.
- note my love of these lists.
- i was told by my english teacher that the morbid cover of "thérèse raquin" is the most cheerful part of the book. i'm about halfway into it and am still rather hesitant in reading it. but truthfully, i rather like zola's writing style that has been likened to painting; i think it's what i aspire to accomplish in my own writing. i haven't reached any particularly horrible parts yet, though, so the graphic aspect of the book should increase ... lsdakhawer. but i actually kind of like it so far.
- i am so worried about the practice history ia right now, i can't properly say.
- i'm not sure if this counts as synesthesia. (and this would definitely go to my head since i pride myself on being abnormal.) but one of the reasons that i have such a hard time dealing with morbidity is because whenever i read something or hear about blood or pain or anything like that, i feel really uneasy. i literally lose feeling in my arms, almost to the point of numbness. like even right now, my palms are feeling a bit weak as i'm typing this. gah.
- le petit prince. love. i still haven't found a hard copy of the french version, though.
feb 24 2010 ∞
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