No, that title isn't a Spider-Man reference to an awesomely dorky quip in the middle of Spidey's climatic dockside battle with Doc Ock in the second of the Sam Rami/Tobey Maguire/Kirsten Dunst trilogy. (Skip ahead to 3:04 of that clip for the quote.)
It's October 21, 2015. Also known as the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in order to keep Marty's son from going to jail. And it's Courtney's birthday. So as Brad Paisley, Emmett Brown and Marty McFly told us, "Welcome To The Future". (I shared that on my Facebook this morning for what's got to be the eleventh time. But it's such a good song! And it applies especially well to today. As does Relient K's Hello McFly.) So that's pretty awesome. I've spent most of it working on homework. Today's Shakespeare class featured a lot of table reading of Hamlet scenes, which was pretty awesome. Probably going to be up all night working on three essays due between tomorrow morning and Wednesday. One of the fun perks of being an English major. Maybe someday it'll pay off, though... Back to work.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Fall Break
It's a Monday morning, and I should probably be rereading Hamlet right now, but I need to get started on this week somehow....
Fall break was last week, and so I went home and read a lot. Finished Chicken Soup for the College Student's Soul and Concerning Cats, raced through a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Jan Karon's newest Mitford novel, and started a book on how puzzles improve our brains and a Star Wars book on the rise of Darth Vader.
Petted all the dogs and most of the cats, got some homework finished, and caught strep throat. Mom, Courtney and I went to an estate sale in Jemks Saturday afternoon, where we found a bunch of old books, several scrapbooks of newspaper clippings(one about ancient college football stories, mixed in with equally ancient recaps of southern Missouri high school games; the other of tragedies of people dying unexpectedly, mostly in car wrecks). They're both pretty great.
But even better are the old magazines we found: a 1974 Saturday Evening Post with articles about the blue jean revolution and a review for a new TV show called Kojak; a 1927 copy of the National Farm Journal; and a 1931 copy of Cosmopolitan, featuring an astonishingly large amount of text, including stories by Somerset Maughan and P.G. Wodehouse.
In the tragedy scrapbook, there were two copies of the Joplin News Herald, dated Tuesday, December 2, 1941 and Monday, December 8, 1941. So that was five days before, and then the day after - Pearl Harbor. It was amazing to get to read them.
We also went to a flea market right after that estate sale, and got a few more things - I found a couple Garth Brooks CDs, and it's just really fun to be places like that.
Realized that I'd outgrown Blimey Cow's kind of humor.We talked about and debated what's been happening on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., rewatched Age of Ultron and about half the first season of Agent Carter. It was nice to have a bit of a rest.
Fall break was last week, and so I went home and read a lot. Finished Chicken Soup for the College Student's Soul and Concerning Cats, raced through a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Jan Karon's newest Mitford novel, and started a book on how puzzles improve our brains and a Star Wars book on the rise of Darth Vader.
Petted all the dogs and most of the cats, got some homework finished, and caught strep throat. Mom, Courtney and I went to an estate sale in Jemks Saturday afternoon, where we found a bunch of old books, several scrapbooks of newspaper clippings(one about ancient college football stories, mixed in with equally ancient recaps of southern Missouri high school games; the other of tragedies of people dying unexpectedly, mostly in car wrecks). They're both pretty great.
But even better are the old magazines we found: a 1974 Saturday Evening Post with articles about the blue jean revolution and a review for a new TV show called Kojak; a 1927 copy of the National Farm Journal; and a 1931 copy of Cosmopolitan, featuring an astonishingly large amount of text, including stories by Somerset Maughan and P.G. Wodehouse.
In the tragedy scrapbook, there were two copies of the Joplin News Herald, dated Tuesday, December 2, 1941 and Monday, December 8, 1941. So that was five days before, and then the day after - Pearl Harbor. It was amazing to get to read them.
We also went to a flea market right after that estate sale, and got a few more things - I found a couple Garth Brooks CDs, and it's just really fun to be places like that.
Realized that I'd outgrown Blimey Cow's kind of humor.We talked about and debated what's been happening on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., rewatched Age of Ultron and about half the first season of Agent Carter. It was nice to have a bit of a rest.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Keeping Folks Off-Balance
Samara would say(with a huge mischievous grin, of course), "Smile! It confuses people!" That doesn't exactly relate to anything following in this post, but it's one of those lines that plays itself at random moments. Like today.
Poetry Writing is going okay; and I'm definitely keeping my classmates off-balance when it comes to the stuff we share for workshopping. That's kinda fun. And a little frustrating when I don't make something clear enough for them to understand. But the critiquing process can be useful and entertaining. So I can switch from describing a square dance(which is apparently a surprisingly foreign concept to most people?), to a first-person musing of family history and politics narrated by a former wild-child single mother with a colorful vocabulary, to a love poem written four hundred years ago by Shakespeare characters. A middle-aged lady said that my stuff seems like things her dad would enjoy reading; I took that as a huge compliment.
Lit Traditions is scary and intense; American Lit has been going okay, and Shakespeare is always interesting in one way or another.
Parks and Rec and Friday Night Lights are what's been Netflixed recently; and just finished the Back to the Future trilogy on Amazon Prime. Romeo and Juliet is hard to slog through....and so is Octavia Butler's dystopian sci-fi YA novel Parable of the Sower.
Practiced volleyball for a bit earlier this afternoon; it's been a slow weekend, for whatever reason....which is even more frustrating in that I've been trying to be productive. Just kind of spinning the wheels without any real traction. So I've gotten through about a third of another school novel and the first act of Hamlet. Feels like a lot longer ago than two years that we were setting up SWAT's adventures.
Poetry Writing is going okay; and I'm definitely keeping my classmates off-balance when it comes to the stuff we share for workshopping. That's kinda fun. And a little frustrating when I don't make something clear enough for them to understand. But the critiquing process can be useful and entertaining. So I can switch from describing a square dance(which is apparently a surprisingly foreign concept to most people?), to a first-person musing of family history and politics narrated by a former wild-child single mother with a colorful vocabulary, to a love poem written four hundred years ago by Shakespeare characters. A middle-aged lady said that my stuff seems like things her dad would enjoy reading; I took that as a huge compliment.
Lit Traditions is scary and intense; American Lit has been going okay, and Shakespeare is always interesting in one way or another.
Parks and Rec and Friday Night Lights are what's been Netflixed recently; and just finished the Back to the Future trilogy on Amazon Prime. Romeo and Juliet is hard to slog through....and so is Octavia Butler's dystopian sci-fi YA novel Parable of the Sower.
Practiced volleyball for a bit earlier this afternoon; it's been a slow weekend, for whatever reason....which is even more frustrating in that I've been trying to be productive. Just kind of spinning the wheels without any real traction. So I've gotten through about a third of another school novel and the first act of Hamlet. Feels like a lot longer ago than two years that we were setting up SWAT's adventures.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Future's Creeping Closer...
Between the panic of midterms and stuff, the accumulated stress from panic making it hard to stay focused, and the nagging feeling that most of these assignments aren't worth anything in the long run, it's not been the greatest school week ever. And my work hasn't been to Wes-acceptable levels. But...I'm trying.
Picked back up with the Pawnee, Indiana, Parks Department's adventures; which delivers much-needed laughter when needed. Further blown away by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Iain De Caestecker(Fitz) and Elizabeth Henstridge(Simmons) from tonight's episode. Texted Courtney throughout during commercial breaks, commenting on this or that. Over the weekend we read through Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for fun; because that's the kind of thing siblings do, right?
Talked to Dylan some on Sunday morning; Ashland's birthday was Monday.
The 2015 Marty McFly and Doc Brown future is almost here.... And also, the 2015-16 hockey season starts tomorrow night. Pretty excited about that. Baseball playoffs are starting; and the Thunder will be playing any day now.
Picked back up with the Pawnee, Indiana, Parks Department's adventures; which delivers much-needed laughter when needed. Further blown away by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Iain De Caestecker(Fitz) and Elizabeth Henstridge(Simmons) from tonight's episode. Texted Courtney throughout during commercial breaks, commenting on this or that. Over the weekend we read through Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for fun; because that's the kind of thing siblings do, right?
Talked to Dylan some on Sunday morning; Ashland's birthday was Monday.
The 2015 Marty McFly and Doc Brown future is almost here.... And also, the 2015-16 hockey season starts tomorrow night. Pretty excited about that. Baseball playoffs are starting; and the Thunder will be playing any day now.
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