Squeeeee!
Ok, so today was not going to be very good. I had to do some pretty intensive editing on an article for one of my classes, and I really didn't wanna do that, and it was pretty much gonna take me all day. But I came downstairs at about noon for sustenance (ok, ice cream), and checked the mail, and I got a letter from the Humanities department at school, telling me that I made the Dean's List! Yea!!!! Yes, I'm pretty much excited beyond all reason. I like gold stars and pointless validation, and this had kind of been an unofficial goal of mine even before I got to college. So to finally make it made me really happy. Besides, I'd forgotten how good it feels to get the elementary school-type recognition that you don't get in college. :) And i get to go to a free breakfast in a couple weeks--8am to 10am. Of course I have class at 9, so I either get up an hour earlier for free food, or ditch class and get free food. Hmmm....decisions decisions
And not only did I manage to finish doing the editing (although a six-page scholarly article took me 6 hours to edit...argh), but also read Moliere's Tartuffe and C.S. Lewis's An Experiment in Criticism. Lewis blew my mind; Narnia is good and accessible, Screwtape Letters is the same, Great Divorce is harder to understand but still pretty accessible, but Experiment in Criticism? Holy cow, my brain hurts! The things I understood rang true--I could tell he was writing pretty insightful things. But it's like I was looking through a pinhole into a room so brightly lit that I couldn't make anything out. And then as I started to get into the writing and how Lewis was thinking, I started to see shapes and outlines, but nothing defined. But then at the end, he seemed to say that one of the points or reasons that good literature is good, or literature that forces people to read in good ways, was simply to allow us to see the world in different ways--to become more ourselves by seeing and experiencing how other people feel and see. A bit of a letdown after the rest of the book, but then, considering it was published in 1961, maybe I've just been immersed in that "expand your horizons" cliche. I think I'll need to re-read it, 'cause it hurt my brain.
So what did I do afterwards? Watch the version of "Air Force One" that I taped off TV, 'cause it has less gore. Yea for Harrison Ford awesomeness! :) I shouldn't like that movie--I don't like violence, I can't stand gore--but for some reason, it's one of my favorite movies. I think it's the awesome president Harrison Ford plays, and the unashamedly "yea for the US" message, and the (admittedly bombastic) score. *happy sigh* I only wish it was a better copy. :)
And I found a couple "Sabrina" (1995 version with Harrison Ford) icons! Yea!
And not only did I manage to finish doing the editing (although a six-page scholarly article took me 6 hours to edit...argh), but also read Moliere's Tartuffe and C.S. Lewis's An Experiment in Criticism. Lewis blew my mind; Narnia is good and accessible, Screwtape Letters is the same, Great Divorce is harder to understand but still pretty accessible, but Experiment in Criticism? Holy cow, my brain hurts! The things I understood rang true--I could tell he was writing pretty insightful things. But it's like I was looking through a pinhole into a room so brightly lit that I couldn't make anything out. And then as I started to get into the writing and how Lewis was thinking, I started to see shapes and outlines, but nothing defined. But then at the end, he seemed to say that one of the points or reasons that good literature is good, or literature that forces people to read in good ways, was simply to allow us to see the world in different ways--to become more ourselves by seeing and experiencing how other people feel and see. A bit of a letdown after the rest of the book, but then, considering it was published in 1961, maybe I've just been immersed in that "expand your horizons" cliche. I think I'll need to re-read it, 'cause it hurt my brain.
So what did I do afterwards? Watch the version of "Air Force One" that I taped off TV, 'cause it has less gore. Yea for Harrison Ford awesomeness! :) I shouldn't like that movie--I don't like violence, I can't stand gore--but for some reason, it's one of my favorite movies. I think it's the awesome president Harrison Ford plays, and the unashamedly "yea for the US" message, and the (admittedly bombastic) score. *happy sigh* I only wish it was a better copy. :)
And I found a couple "Sabrina" (1995 version with Harrison Ford) icons! Yea!