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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Online time is scarce since I'm now at home and on narrowband connection.
Watched RotK on opening day! ::mad squeal of joy:: I do have to admit that I had rather high expectations for it, and it didn't quite meet all of them, but nevertheless, it's such an awesome, awesome movie. You must see it (if you haven't already). And if it doesn't get the Oscar for Best Picture, I'll just cry. ;_;
I'll probably end up going to watch The Last Samurai too and rant about the utterly ludicrous position of Tom Cruise fighting as a samurai when it takes years and years of training to learn how to hold a sword properly. -_- Still, everyone says it was a good movie, and Father really wants to see it, so I suppose I'll just have to put aside my peeves and try to enjoy the action.
I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, which was strangely unsettling though beautifully written and will possibly continue to unsettle me for the rest of break. I've also read The Professor and the Madman, which makes me want to write a book. Specifically a book on some small moment in history that requires lots of traveling to obscure places and reading old letters. I think I want to research material for a book, actually, rather than write it. Call it the voyeuristic impulse in me (it's so thrilling to browse a used bookstore and read the blue pencilled notes that some student half a century ago wrote in the margins). I'm now in the middle of the second Otherland book and Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, the latter of which is going to utterly infuriate me and may provoke rants along the lines of "Well then take your capitalism and keep it, you Calvinist idiots!"
Homecoming was pretty heartwarming--the two eighth graders who were in Science Club last year (as sevens, of course) glomped me as soon as they saw me. It was a bit surprising, but it felt nice to be appreciated. Teacher-hopping was fun as well, especially lounging around in Mr. Randolph's office and berating him for failing to reply to our emails. ^_^ Oh, and the editor-in-chief of Biosphere (plus one of the math team co-captains) got into Harvard (our count for early admissions this year is nine, which is certainly better than I expected). I don't particularly like or dislike the other seven (and some of them I would prefer to avoid seeing), but Adam and Karen are both nice kids who deserve to get in. Adam asked me about the "party life" at Harvard and was surprised to hear that no, parties do not consist of sipping wine while discussing Socrates. (Well, if L.P.'s stories about the Crimson are in any way accurate, that is...) >_>
And...the Hallway is as wonderful and comfortable as ever. ::dissolves into sentimental puddle of goo:: Oh, I missed you guys so much!
Lyd-chan and I bought each other the RotK soundtrack for Christmas yesterday and proceeded to go eat lunch at a rather nice Italian restaurant with her father and sister. Mostly lots of incoherent squealing about the third movie and a long discussion on fanfiction. ^_^ Talking with Lyd-chan in person is so much better than a phone conversation--I guess it's because I'm so used to talking to her in school rather than anywhere else.
I'm getting contact lenses today. O_O Ugh, I don't want to touch my eyeballs...::shudders:: Must be going now, don't expect another update soon.
...Tari
Online time is scarce since I'm now at home and on narrowband connection.
Watched RotK on opening day! ::mad squeal of joy:: I do have to admit that I had rather high expectations for it, and it didn't quite meet all of them, but nevertheless, it's such an awesome, awesome movie. You must see it (if you haven't already). And if it doesn't get the Oscar for Best Picture, I'll just cry. ;_;
I'll probably end up going to watch The Last Samurai too and rant about the utterly ludicrous position of Tom Cruise fighting as a samurai when it takes years and years of training to learn how to hold a sword properly. -_- Still, everyone says it was a good movie, and Father really wants to see it, so I suppose I'll just have to put aside my peeves and try to enjoy the action.
I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, which was strangely unsettling though beautifully written and will possibly continue to unsettle me for the rest of break. I've also read The Professor and the Madman, which makes me want to write a book. Specifically a book on some small moment in history that requires lots of traveling to obscure places and reading old letters. I think I want to research material for a book, actually, rather than write it. Call it the voyeuristic impulse in me (it's so thrilling to browse a used bookstore and read the blue pencilled notes that some student half a century ago wrote in the margins). I'm now in the middle of the second Otherland book and Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, the latter of which is going to utterly infuriate me and may provoke rants along the lines of "Well then take your capitalism and keep it, you Calvinist idiots!"
Homecoming was pretty heartwarming--the two eighth graders who were in Science Club last year (as sevens, of course) glomped me as soon as they saw me. It was a bit surprising, but it felt nice to be appreciated. Teacher-hopping was fun as well, especially lounging around in Mr. Randolph's office and berating him for failing to reply to our emails. ^_^ Oh, and the editor-in-chief of Biosphere (plus one of the math team co-captains) got into Harvard (our count for early admissions this year is nine, which is certainly better than I expected). I don't particularly like or dislike the other seven (and some of them I would prefer to avoid seeing), but Adam and Karen are both nice kids who deserve to get in. Adam asked me about the "party life" at Harvard and was surprised to hear that no, parties do not consist of sipping wine while discussing Socrates. (Well, if L.P.'s stories about the Crimson are in any way accurate, that is...) >_>
And...the Hallway is as wonderful and comfortable as ever. ::dissolves into sentimental puddle of goo:: Oh, I missed you guys so much!
Lyd-chan and I bought each other the RotK soundtrack for Christmas yesterday and proceeded to go eat lunch at a rather nice Italian restaurant with her father and sister. Mostly lots of incoherent squealing about the third movie and a long discussion on fanfiction. ^_^ Talking with Lyd-chan in person is so much better than a phone conversation--I guess it's because I'm so used to talking to her in school rather than anywhere else.
I'm getting contact lenses today. O_O Ugh, I don't want to touch my eyeballs...::shudders:: Must be going now, don't expect another update soon.
...Tari
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Date: 2003-12-20 10:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-22 03:01 pm (UTC)...Tari
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Date: 2003-12-20 02:41 pm (UTC)BTW, I was told that 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is so horrible that the geisha in question wanted to sue Arthur Golden. Well, I haven't read any of them (not his version nor the 'original' that came afterwards) but what I didn't really like what I heard of it (a grey-eyed Japanese girl? In the early 20th century? That's fantasy -_-;). But if you say it's good it probably is. I shall go to the library after the holidays and see if I can find it ^^
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Date: 2003-12-22 01:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, a grey-eyed Japanese girl is...uh...a bit hard to accept, but it's still a good book. The geisha wanted to sue Arthur Golden because she claimed that the entire book was based on her life and he didn't give her sufficient credit, but I think most people found the book worth reading. ^_^ It was pretty unsettling to me (I don't quite know why) but it was gorgeously written. ^_^;;
...Tari