A Long Winding Path

So, I haven't posted in a while. Thought I'd give an update. I'm in two history classes this semester, Third Reich: Rise, Fall, and Aftermath (Nazi Germany) and African Experience. Due to their subject matter they are both pretty damn depressing. Like most people in my major I'm cynical, African Experience is threatening to turn me into a full-on hermit. I'll survive.

I actually have Spring Break plans this year, a friend and I will be chilling on a sunny Florida beach. Cannot wait to see dad again, it's been too long.

Fact: I can see every color on this rainbow.

1. What movie have you seen the most times in the theater? How many times?
Dark Knight: once in theater, twice in IMAX

2. What was the last movie you walked out of in the theater?
Zorro, my family had split up to watch movies, and since the other movie was finished my grandmother forced my step-mom and I to leave our movie.

3. What is the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?
Lassie

4. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

5. Have you ever dressed up as a movie character for Halloween? If so, who?
Jasmin from Aladdin, Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, Luke Skywalker from Star Wars


6. What was the first R-rated movie you ever saw? Were you allowed or did you sneak?
Gosh, I don't know. I probably went with my parents though

7. Star Wars (orig. trilogy) or Lord of the Rings?
Star Wars, BEST MOVIES EVER

8. Pacino or De Niro?
De Niro, simple because I've seen more of his work

9. Titanic...did it suck or was it great?
EPIC FAIL (the boat sinks by-the-way)

10. What's your take on Cassavetes?
shen me?

11. Favorite John Hughes character?
Kevin McCallister from Home Alone

12. Which movie gives you a boner (or makes you tingle)?
nothing comes to mind (no pun intended)

13. Which movie always makes you cry like the big puss you are?
Ladder 49

14. What's the furthest you've ever gotten in a movie theater? (i.e, second base...)
I think I sat next to a boy once

15. Speaking of sports metaphors, what's your favorite sports movie?
Remember the Titans

16. Favorite
(a)... teen movie?
Speak

(b)...Quentin Tarantino movie?
Kill Bill (I and II)

(c)...Bill Murray movie?
One of the ghostbusters

(d)...romantic comedy?
Princess Bride

(e)...gangster movie?
The Departed

(f)...horror movie?
Them (it's really old)

(g)...made for TV movie?
Gettysburg

(h)...director?
M. Night Shyamalan

(i)...drug movie?
Can't say that I have one

17. Which movie have you seen already but will never, ever, ever watch again?
American Pie

18. Which movie are you embarrassed to really like?
Darkness Falls (what I love bad horror movies)

19. Which movie should be remade asap?
Remakes usually suck (my soul dies when I think about my poor War of the Worlds)

20. What the f*** happened to (insert answer)? He/she used to be so damn funny!
I don't watch comedy

21. For the love of everything that's sacred, please someone stop (insert answer) from making another movie!
Uwe Boll, if he touches another video game, there will be blood

22. Which movie do all your friends love but you think is whatevs?
Any comedy

23. Which movie do you love but all your friends think is whatevs?
War

24. If you could shag/date/marry any movie character, who would it be?
Bruce Wayne (Nolan version ktnx)

25. Best movie ever?
Glory

26. Book you wish would be made into a movie, and who would direct it?
I always end up disappointed with film adaptations, so none.

Arg, I did horrible on my Modern Ireland test, I know I did. I totally made up the answer for Lard Wars and some-guy-whose-name-eludes-me. I sucked up my essay, I can feel it. :( It was only two pages long. So going to fail this class, and I don't want too, because I love Modern Ireland.

Weight training in Wellness/Fitness, my legs feel great now, will regret this later.

End killjoy rant

Two positives:
Chinese vocab = 100% finished
Lunch with Yen in half hour.

Where are my pants?

Near!

shinga (who does the Head Trip comics) wrote a hilarious summery of the first Twilight book. She gave me permission to make icons from her script.





( MOAR! )

Schedule for next semester:

Monday:
*9am-The African Experience (Guthrie)
*1pm-Third Reich: Rise, Fall, Aftermath (Sondhaus)
*2pm-Christianity (Clapper)

Tuesday:
*4pm-Chinese 102 (Lin)

Wednesday:
*9am-The African Experience (Guthrie)
*1pm-Third Reich: Rise, Fall, Aftermath (Sondhaus)
*2pm-Christianity (Clapper)
*5:45pm-Chinese Culture and Society (Lin)

Thursday:
*4pm-Chinese 102 (Lin)

Friday:
*9am-The African Experience (Guthrie)
*1pm-Third Reich: Rise, Fall, Aftermath (Sondhaus)
*2pm-Christianity (Clapper)

I need the history credits, and the only options were Civil War, Third Reich, and African Experience. The last one will fulfill my non-western history requirement, so I have no choice but to take it. Third Reich won out over Civil War because I test better than I write. I'm still going to die though. Third Reich is infamous for making Seniors want to kill themselves, and I've heard REALLY REALLY scary things about Guthrie. :( :( :(

Eeyore. If I had to put up with Tigger's incessant enthusiasm I'd have to choke a bitch. At least with Eeyore I'd have someone to share my pessimism with. <3

. . .and they had installed metal detectors. Most people would find this somewhat annoying and then move on. Lucky me isn't really supposed to go through metal detectors, but though what-the-heck, I need to deposit my money. So I tried to go through the thing, big mistake--it hurt--, and it goes off because I have keys, change, and a book bag on. Intercom conversation ensues, and I explain the situation. I was told to go through the drive through. Yeah, did I mention I WALKED TO THE BANK. Yes, I was forced to walk through the banks drive though lane. It was so embarrassing. I looked like an idiot, and what the hell am I supposed to do in the winter? Freeze my ass off outside? Does this count as discrimination?

This is the first poem that I am turning in to the prof. It bemoans the fact that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing in this class. It also sucks. Makes sense really

Poetry

Poetry is impressionistic painting
Composed of the colors between blue and green
I look at it without seeing it
I read it without hearing it
The words mean nothing to me
There is a gap between them and my inartistic mind
A chasm of insurmountable distance

I am color blind

I watch others greet colorful phrases
And lyrical verses
Like one would a friend
Wasting time with childish fancies
As I stand with my matter-of-fact
And distant texts
Brow furrowed with concentration
Studying works of grave importance

I wonder if I am missing something