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Seen since the 30th of August:

1. film: Akeelah and the Bee, which is a movie in which Morpheus trains a child to be the One, for the Scripps National Spelling Bee instead of the Matrix. This film explores every theme from words -- etymology, influence, sheer beauty -- to fighting with honor, what with pity and pride. Yes, it does start off with ( Read more... )

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In a month she would not mourn, because in that season it had never seemed to her that they were married, she and the silent Methodist Edmund who wore a necktie and suspenders even to hunt wildflowers, and who remembered just where they grew from year to year, and who dipped his handkerchief in a puddle to wrap the stems, and who put his elbow to ( Read more... )

im heading off this sunday to tour around mainland china with my family and some of my mom's noisy nosy loud shanghainese friends and I will return on the 9th of June. never been to beijing before. i won't be able to choose a boob surgeon until afterward, then we can get this whole chopsy thing rollin'.

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Generally my dislike of work obstructs any guilt for not doing it, but I've been really bad with my epics class lately, so I finally sat down with the library's copy of Tom Jones tonight. So much wicked sass. Love the sass, but the repartee goes on. And on. Heard the film version's as good -- or better -- 'cause it doesn't?


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ajalsjalfls what DISASTER is this-- I went to speak to my Twice Told Tales teacher about writing a paper on Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now and I broke off mid-sentence for about 40 seconds trying to remember the word 'idea,' and I ended up just saying 'theory' because I was getting tired of squinting at her staring at me. I'm horrifically ( Read more... )

My new debit card has finally arrived in the mail (after my mom snapped my old one in a fit of rage at the bank during the summer), hooked up with the checking account where my salary gets deposited. I'll finally get to pay for Livejournal and books from the Internet. High on my list are Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami and When Fox Is A Thousand ( Read more... )

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apart from my 5 minute lateness to Twice Told Tales class, today was damn near perfect.

I spent abt 2 hours on the road in search of a bookstore but did ultimately find not only Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms but also Haruki Murakami's An Elephant Vanishes. on the downside, each novel costed $14. paperbacks. $14 for a paperbkajkgs fucking books-- ( Read more... )

Two hours before the first seven chapters were due, I was searching campus-wide for a copy of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to read. Every copy for purchase or loan had been purchased or loaned out. I ended up writing a special request in the 'Special Collection' archive section in the furthest bowels of the library, taking notes from the ( Read more... )