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Feb. 15th, 2004 03:06 pmI think I should reread An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott. Possibly my favorite LMA book, although I'm also fond of Little Men. But Polly's just so. . . inspirational. :) She's a sweetheart. I used to like Eight Cousins, but I've outgrown it.
Anyway, the problem is that I'm already in the middle of several books. I'm rereading The Truth, by Terry Pratchett--except I keep calling it Interesting Times! Which is another good one, but it has Rincewind, and I don't like the Rincewind ones so much. And I have to read James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Monday (not tomorrow, the next one). Not too bad, though. It's been going pretty quickly so far. I bet it takes less time than the horrible awful crap Heart of Darkness, despite being almost four times longer.
I'm also kind of reading an Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly, but HoD got in the way. And I'm rereading Hellboy. And I want to get caught up on comic books, I'm insanely behind!!! Busy week ;)
my friends have scattered, so I'm not doing anything today. Still, I consider a day of vacation successful if I spend it in my pajamas. :D Hopefully Katie will be able to watch some Stargate or maybe Harvey with me. And mom's taken Lilies of the Field out of the library. Yay! :D I loooooove Sidney Poitier. But, I mean, who doesn't?
I need to figure out what I want to do for my concentration piece--I have to do one over the week.
Awww, lookit my icon--that's another book i wouldn't mind rereading. Water, by Peter Dickinson and Robin McKinley. I was checking it out last time I was at the library, cos I'd totally forgotten what Robin's second story was--Water Horse. >.< It was a really sweet one--her's tend to be--and I felt bad. Anyway, all the stories are excellent. Except Sea Serpent. It's good, I just didn't really like it. It was worrying.
Oh! Ok, it's now 5:30, but I've thought of something else I'd like to add to this entry. lol. Dad expressed an interest in the printing that we've been doing in art, so I brought home all of my stuff--I'm finished with it. And it is really nifty. Like, the process annoys me, cos it's so hard for me to tell when I've wiped sufficiently or not. I had a particularly hard time with the lithograph--that's the plastic plate that we carved out with our own hands. The engraving was easier--that's eaten by acid. Extremely complicated, involving much rubber gloves. But I do think it's soooo cool that I have this zinc plate with my picture on it now. And the pictures turned out pretty well, I think. And my monoprint of da munki :D The good ones are in school, of course, so I'm showing them really pale ones, or really dark ones (in the case of the lithograph, in particular).
Then we were talking about something, and I came out in a very bad light. Ugh! Either evil or just jealous. Cos I was telling them about how I was waiting to talk to a teacher with these two guys, and they were talking about how they liked a friend of mine. One of them I knew--he'd made some type of move. But she's seeing someone else now. This girl is so pretty and sweet, by the way--lots of guys like her. Just as a side note. The other kid was a year younger than us and wanted to leave so he could go to the library, cos she's there that period. She doesn't even know he exists, and he's apparently watching her. And planning to make his presence known. I believe he said his plan had been (hopefully before she started going out with someone) was to bump into her accidentally on purpose and then help her pick up her books--and offer her to take her out to dinner afterwards. And, I dunno. They were just being really kind of piggish about it. Not too bad, but bad enough. But when he said "I've got to go, or I'll miss her", I said "She won't miss you"--I was just kidding. . . and I think it was obvious. I mean, it couldn't be an insult--she can't miss him, she doesn't even know who he is! But my parents were upset, and when I tried to explain how slimy they were being, I think I just came off as jealous. ::sighs:: argh. argh.
Anyway, the problem is that I'm already in the middle of several books. I'm rereading The Truth, by Terry Pratchett--except I keep calling it Interesting Times! Which is another good one, but it has Rincewind, and I don't like the Rincewind ones so much. And I have to read James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Monday (not tomorrow, the next one). Not too bad, though. It's been going pretty quickly so far. I bet it takes less time than the horrible awful crap Heart of Darkness, despite being almost four times longer.
I'm also kind of reading an Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly, but HoD got in the way. And I'm rereading Hellboy. And I want to get caught up on comic books, I'm insanely behind!!! Busy week ;)
my friends have scattered, so I'm not doing anything today. Still, I consider a day of vacation successful if I spend it in my pajamas. :D Hopefully Katie will be able to watch some Stargate or maybe Harvey with me. And mom's taken Lilies of the Field out of the library. Yay! :D I loooooove Sidney Poitier. But, I mean, who doesn't?
I need to figure out what I want to do for my concentration piece--I have to do one over the week.
Awww, lookit my icon--that's another book i wouldn't mind rereading. Water, by Peter Dickinson and Robin McKinley. I was checking it out last time I was at the library, cos I'd totally forgotten what Robin's second story was--Water Horse. >.< It was a really sweet one--her's tend to be--and I felt bad. Anyway, all the stories are excellent. Except Sea Serpent. It's good, I just didn't really like it. It was worrying.
Oh! Ok, it's now 5:30, but I've thought of something else I'd like to add to this entry. lol. Dad expressed an interest in the printing that we've been doing in art, so I brought home all of my stuff--I'm finished with it. And it is really nifty. Like, the process annoys me, cos it's so hard for me to tell when I've wiped sufficiently or not. I had a particularly hard time with the lithograph--that's the plastic plate that we carved out with our own hands. The engraving was easier--that's eaten by acid. Extremely complicated, involving much rubber gloves. But I do think it's soooo cool that I have this zinc plate with my picture on it now. And the pictures turned out pretty well, I think. And my monoprint of da munki :D The good ones are in school, of course, so I'm showing them really pale ones, or really dark ones (in the case of the lithograph, in particular).
Then we were talking about something, and I came out in a very bad light. Ugh! Either evil or just jealous. Cos I was telling them about how I was waiting to talk to a teacher with these two guys, and they were talking about how they liked a friend of mine. One of them I knew--he'd made some type of move. But she's seeing someone else now. This girl is so pretty and sweet, by the way--lots of guys like her. Just as a side note. The other kid was a year younger than us and wanted to leave so he could go to the library, cos she's there that period. She doesn't even know he exists, and he's apparently watching her. And planning to make his presence known. I believe he said his plan had been (hopefully before she started going out with someone) was to bump into her accidentally on purpose and then help her pick up her books--and offer her to take her out to dinner afterwards. And, I dunno. They were just being really kind of piggish about it. Not too bad, but bad enough. But when he said "I've got to go, or I'll miss her", I said "She won't miss you"--I was just kidding. . . and I think it was obvious. I mean, it couldn't be an insult--she can't miss him, she doesn't even know who he is! But my parents were upset, and when I tried to explain how slimy they were being, I think I just came off as jealous. ::sighs:: argh. argh.
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Date: 2004-02-15 02:48 pm (UTC)(I'm afraid I've actually added the bulk of the entry after this comment--sorry 'bout that)