Falling Snow and Things To Do

The snow is falling like crazy-- but it doesn't matter if we have a two-hour delay tomorrow because I have to get up anyway. I have my Rotary breakfast, and if I miss TWO (I'm already missing one because of Model UN), that would just be like completely pointless (seeing as how there are only four). I hope I can wow them with my three people I want to eat lunch with ^_^ lol . . .

I'm glad I don't have to drive Tory anywhere. I already had to drive Nichole and Kristina home because Nichole lost her keys. I didn't mind, though; I had a chance to talk to them for a longer period than just the ten minutes before school or the occasional comment during musical rehearsal.

Things I have got to do:

Write my Georgetown college essays: I have an idea for one of them. For my "briefly describe yourself" essay, I am going to introduce myself as if I were a character in a story, which is easier, because I do that all the time. I've even introduced people I know like that before, like Alice and Nichole. The other is just pretty trite and usual, the usual essay.

Complete my Georgetown college application: Once I get the essays done, I copy it to my application and fill it out and print it off. It's very weird.

Practice my violin for Solo and Ensemble: We have time in class to work on our ensembles, apparently. This is good. This is very good. Yet my solo still sucks.

Write my cases for the Debate meet: I finally have an idea for the Negative side of Church and State being separated: The resolution said something about it best serving the country. Well, it best serves the country if its laws work, and if the laws contradict the religion of the people (or some of the people), it undermines the effectiveness of the laws because no one will follow them; they will listen to their higher power. So it is good for nations to keep in consideration the religion of the citizens and incorporate it into their law-making a little bit.

By the way, Liz, they're starting to get organized for that debate meet that you wanted to help at. It's on the 22nd. I don't know what you can do, but I'll put your name in when/if they ask for volunteer help.

Come up with some things more for my Model UN thing: I don't know what I can really speak on . . . I don't have a working paper, I don't know how to do one, so how do I argue any of this? I suppose I will just have to wait and see what the USSR presents and then argue to back it up. I can speak, I just can't write resolutions. Anything I resolved would either be too vague and unclear and just restating the obvious (then again, this IS the UN), or it would be "out of order."

Read another book "of recognized literary merit": Particularly one written after 1950. There are hardly any out there. Name some for me, people-- and ones which I would like to read, lol. Maybe I'll reread Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (though I prefer Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! which got less literary attention even though I thought it was better), or The Da Vinci Code, or, my personal favorite, Harry Potter. I don't think she'll accept Harry Potter. I asked about The Da Vinci Code, but I don't know if I should. I think someone else is bound to do The Poisonwood Bible.

Confunnit, why couldn't I have gotten pre-1950s??? I could so do Demien: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth which would involve Hermann Hesse who sounds pretty darn interesting and I know a bunch of stuff about the book's historical influence. Grr . . . how come half the class gets The Year The First Book Was Written to 1950 (let's see, about 4000 years, maybe?), and the rest of us get 1951-2005 (um, 54 years?)? It's certainly not fair. We should have at least gotten 1900-2005. Sheesh Louish.

Hmm, I've never written out "Sheesh Louish" before. That was odd, very much so . . .

Perhaps do some Economics studying for once: I am going to bomb that class. I just barely scrape by all the time.

I had Mom's penguin hat today. It made a good puppet. I think I freak people out.

Okay, let's see . . . so now I had better go and do some of these things.

Falling Snow and Things To Do

The snow is falling like crazy-- but it doesn't matter if we have a two-hour delay tomorrow because I have to get up anyway. I have my Rotary breakfast, and if I miss TWO (I'm already missing one because of Model UN), that would just be like completely pointless (seeing as how there are only four). I hope I can wow them with my three people I want to eat lunch with ^_^ lol . . .

I'm glad I don't have to drive Tory anywhere. I already had to drive Nichole and Kristina home because Nichole lost her keys. I didn't mind, though; I had a chance to talk to them for a longer period than just the ten minutes before school or the occasional comment during musical rehearsal.

Things I have got to do:

Write my Georgetown college essays: I have an idea for one of them. For my "briefly describe yourself" essay, I am going to introduce myself as if I were a character in a story, which is easier, because I do that all the time. I've even introduced people I know like that before, like Alice and Nichole. The other is just pretty trite and usual, the usual essay.

Complete my Georgetown college application: Once I get the essays done, I copy it to my application and fill it out and print it off. It's very weird.

Practice my violin for Solo and Ensemble: We have time in class to work on our ensembles, apparently. This is good. This is very good. Yet my solo still sucks.

Write my cases for the Debate meet: I finally have an idea for the Negative side of Church and State being separated: The resolution said something about it best serving the country. Well, it best serves the country if its laws work, and if the laws contradict the religion of the people (or some of the people), it undermines the effectiveness of the laws because no one will follow them; they will listen to their higher power. So it is good for nations to keep in consideration the religion of the citizens and incorporate it into their law-making a little bit.

By the way, Liz, they're starting to get organized for that debate meet that you wanted to help at. It's on the 22nd. I don't know what you can do, but I'll put your name in when/if they ask for volunteer help.

Come up with some things more for my Model UN thing: I don't know what I can really speak on . . . I don't have a working paper, I don't know how to do one, so how do I argue any of this? I suppose I will just have to wait and see what the USSR presents and then argue to back it up. I can speak, I just can't write resolutions. Anything I resolved would either be too vague and unclear and just restating the obvious (then again, this IS the UN), or it would be "out of order."

Read another book "of recognized literary merit": Particularly one written after 1950. There are hardly any out there. Name some for me, people-- and ones which I would like to read, lol. Maybe I'll reread Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (though I prefer Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! which got less literary attention even though I thought it was better), or The Da Vinci Code, or, my personal favorite, Harry Potter. I don't think she'll accept Harry Potter. I asked about The Da Vinci Code, but I don't know if I should. I think someone else is bound to do The Poisonwood Bible.

Confunnit, why couldn't I have gotten pre-1950s??? I could so do Demien: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth which would involve Hermann Hesse who sounds pretty darn interesting and I know a bunch of stuff about the book's historical influence. Grr . . . how come half the class gets The Year The First Book Was Written to 1950 (let's see, about 4000 years, maybe?), and the rest of us get 1951-2005 (um, 54 years?)? It's certainly not fair. We should have at least gotten 1900-2005. Sheesh Louish.

Hmm, I've never written out "Sheesh Louish" before. That was odd, very much so . . .

Perhaps do some Economics studying for once: I am going to bomb that class. I just barely scrape by all the time.

I had Mom's penguin hat today. It made a good puppet. I think I freak people out.

Okay, let's see . . . so now I had better go and do some of these things.

Books

I did two of the things I wanted to do tonight. I have gotten substantially far on one of the two of my Georgetown essays, and I practiced my violin. You know, if I had more time and it was the only piece I was playing, I could really get this Toccata and Fugue down. It's really not that hard. I love it to death, too ^_^ it's like one of the best songs ever.

I think I just about gave Liz a heart attack saying there were no good books written after 1950. It's just that I don't know about them, and we don't have any in our house, practically, so I don't know about them, because I never LEAVE my house. I have such trouble just wandering the library, too, because the classics and deep novels are buried amongst so many chick flicks and bodice-rippers and random entertainment without much real "literary merit" that it's hard to seek them out. They need to just divide off a "good book" section.

Not that books for entertainment aren't good, but you have to admit, there is a real difference between a book written for a thrilling plot or sweet romance than a book that makes commentary on history or human nature. Some books are summer reading, easily digested and without much layer other than the narration of a story. They're whole, they have all the ingredients, they just don't go deeper than "what happens." They're a plot, with a bit of character. For instance, a lot of teenage novels (ie: The Princess Diaries, those Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging books, Sweet Valley, etc . . . ) are stories, and they have distinct and relatable characters, and though there's the occasional organic epiphany (like the moral of a children's book), there's not much beyond the tale and the plot. Mystery novels and horror thrillers definitely fall under this category, too; there's some goal that creates the plot, and the characters have to interact a bit, and it's just plot. The deeper books, the kinds we're supposed to read for English class, are a theme more than a plot, and there's usually a lot more character. For instance, Les Miserables is historical, but there's not the decided goal like in a mystery novel; it's characters interacting in a backdrop, all creating a theme, the backdrop adding to the theme.

I can't tell which Harry Potter falls under. Some people insist that it's just raw entertainment, a story with a good plot, but I think J.K. Rowling's too smart to simply write a story that's a book with no theme. Then again . . . maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's a big allegory for something . . . or many things . . .

I was going to write something else but I lost it. It didn't have anything to do with books, but I think that was enough to write as it is.

( 2004 Survey Thing )

My pimp name is Suede Amy Shizzle. It's kind of boring. Nichole, you are Sugartastic Nichole Flow, Kristina is G. Digital Kristina Squeeze (ooh, I like that), Jessica is Fadeproof Jaeger Joker (ooh, I like that, too, lol), Tiffany is Papa T. Flex (WTF?), Jamie is Funk Master J. Slim (Lol, that is awesome!), and . . . if I do everybody I know, I'll be up here all night. Do it yourself: http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp.

Books

I did two of the things I wanted to do tonight. I have gotten substantially far on one of the two of my Georgetown essays, and I practiced my violin. You know, if I had more time and it was the only piece I was playing, I could really get this Toccata and Fugue down. It's really not that hard. I love it to death, too ^_^ it's like one of the best songs ever.

I think I just about gave Liz a heart attack saying there were no good books written after 1950. It's just that I don't know about them, and we don't have any in our house, practically, so I don't know about them, because I never LEAVE my house. I have such trouble just wandering the library, too, because the classics and deep novels are buried amongst so many chick flicks and bodice-rippers and random entertainment without much real "literary merit" that it's hard to seek them out. They need to just divide off a "good book" section.

Not that books for entertainment aren't good, but you have to admit, there is a real difference between a book written for a thrilling plot or sweet romance than a book that makes commentary on history or human nature. Some books are summer reading, easily digested and without much layer other than the narration of a story. They're whole, they have all the ingredients, they just don't go deeper than "what happens." They're a plot, with a bit of character. For instance, a lot of teenage novels (ie: The Princess Diaries, those Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging books, Sweet Valley, etc . . . ) are stories, and they have distinct and relatable characters, and though there's the occasional organic epiphany (like the moral of a children's book), there's not much beyond the tale and the plot. Mystery novels and horror thrillers definitely fall under this category, too; there's some goal that creates the plot, and the characters have to interact a bit, and it's just plot. The deeper books, the kinds we're supposed to read for English class, are a theme more than a plot, and there's usually a lot more character. For instance, Les Miserables is historical, but there's not the decided goal like in a mystery novel; it's characters interacting in a backdrop, all creating a theme, the backdrop adding to the theme.

I can't tell which Harry Potter falls under. Some people insist that it's just raw entertainment, a story with a good plot, but I think J.K. Rowling's too smart to simply write a story that's a book with no theme. Then again . . . maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's a big allegory for something . . . or many things . . .

I was going to write something else but I lost it. It didn't have anything to do with books, but I think that was enough to write as it is.

( 2004 Survey Thing )

My pimp name is Suede Amy Shizzle. It's kind of boring. Nichole, you are Sugartastic Nichole Flow, Kristina is G. Digital Kristina Squeeze (ooh, I like that), Jessica is Fadeproof Jaeger Joker (ooh, I like that, too, lol), Tiffany is Papa T. Flex (WTF?), Jamie is Funk Master J. Slim (Lol, that is awesome!), and . . . if I do everybody I know, I'll be up here all night. Do it yourself: http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp.