Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines.
Hahaha... I love that I sounded so utterly crazy in my last entry. Erm... bout that... I apologize to anyone whom I've worried. I promise I'm okay. I'll just be better when the stress of finals isn't in my face like the way it is right now. ^^;;
Studying has been going slowly but steadily today. Not quickly enough for my tastes, but oh well. I'll manage somehow.
I ran into a bunch of small glitches with the secret santa program today. I'd succeeded in making it double blind, but then a santa ran into trouble, and I had to assist her. And then another person applied, and I told them that I couldn't accept them cuz they were past the deadline... only she wasn't, because yours truly is apparently dislexic and didn't realize that the 10th is Sunday... not Saturday. Ahahaha. I've actually decided to blame it on the gimpy calendars ussage of two s's. I mean, we're not allowed to use the same letter for two different variables in math. I'd like to know the name of the genius who thought to make two S's right next to each other standard and kick him in the shin.
Okay.... I'm totally watching Titanic right now, and as much as I hate the stupid love story and DiCaprio in this movie, there are parts of it that I enjoy and are just... moving. The scene where the orchestral band keeps playing? When the men are all trying to upright that last boat before the ship goes entirely under? The one shot of the boat in the middle of that black ocean in the middle of a dark, lonely world, shooting up brilliant white flares despite the impossibility of rescue? It's... I don't even know how to describe the chills it gives me; I quite nearly cried. It just is moving; a display of the greatest and worst that people are possible. And everyone can talk about how much this movie sucked... and if you mean the love story then you're right. But if you're talking about a portrayal of human nature in the face of staggering odds and certain death, well... to me, it's no wonder that the movie received the honors it did. And it also makes me reevaluate just how frightening a death drowning could be, if it were prolonged long enough. Sure, it's meant to be as dramatic as possible--this is Hollywood we're talking about--but I have a feeling that in some ways it's probably an accurate depiction of the things that happened on that ship that night. Well, love story and all that shit ignored, anyway.
I also found myself wondering just why the hell these actors wouldn't hang onto the bars and whatnot with their legs. I mean, at least for women, lower body strength is substantially greater than upper body strength. Surely by then they wouldn't be worried about modesty.
Watching this movie reminds me that I used to be really into stuff like the Titanic. Not just that, but stuff like the coup on the Russian Tzar and his family. And it wasn't even because of movies, either, before someone says it. XD I was really into Ancient Egypt--I was obsessed with mummies and pyramids for the longest time--as well as Greek and Roman mythology. I still am, to some extent, but not like I used to be. Ah, TNT, the things you've allowed me to ponder tonight.
And to think I could have been worrying about why my email isn't working properly or tests or studying. Bwahahaha.
... This is probably one of the reasons I have so much to worry about. I'm like some ADD child who's on a sugar rush and forgot to take my meds. Okay, well perhaps not that bad. But you get the picture.
Studying has been going slowly but steadily today. Not quickly enough for my tastes, but oh well. I'll manage somehow.
I ran into a bunch of small glitches with the secret santa program today. I'd succeeded in making it double blind, but then a santa ran into trouble, and I had to assist her. And then another person applied, and I told them that I couldn't accept them cuz they were past the deadline... only she wasn't, because yours truly is apparently dislexic and didn't realize that the 10th is Sunday... not Saturday. Ahahaha. I've actually decided to blame it on the gimpy calendars ussage of two s's. I mean, we're not allowed to use the same letter for two different variables in math. I'd like to know the name of the genius who thought to make two S's right next to each other standard and kick him in the shin.
Okay.... I'm totally watching Titanic right now, and as much as I hate the stupid love story and DiCaprio in this movie, there are parts of it that I enjoy and are just... moving. The scene where the orchestral band keeps playing? When the men are all trying to upright that last boat before the ship goes entirely under? The one shot of the boat in the middle of that black ocean in the middle of a dark, lonely world, shooting up brilliant white flares despite the impossibility of rescue? It's... I don't even know how to describe the chills it gives me; I quite nearly cried. It just is moving; a display of the greatest and worst that people are possible. And everyone can talk about how much this movie sucked... and if you mean the love story then you're right. But if you're talking about a portrayal of human nature in the face of staggering odds and certain death, well... to me, it's no wonder that the movie received the honors it did. And it also makes me reevaluate just how frightening a death drowning could be, if it were prolonged long enough. Sure, it's meant to be as dramatic as possible--this is Hollywood we're talking about--but I have a feeling that in some ways it's probably an accurate depiction of the things that happened on that ship that night. Well, love story and all that shit ignored, anyway.
I also found myself wondering just why the hell these actors wouldn't hang onto the bars and whatnot with their legs. I mean, at least for women, lower body strength is substantially greater than upper body strength. Surely by then they wouldn't be worried about modesty.
Watching this movie reminds me that I used to be really into stuff like the Titanic. Not just that, but stuff like the coup on the Russian Tzar and his family. And it wasn't even because of movies, either, before someone says it. XD I was really into Ancient Egypt--I was obsessed with mummies and pyramids for the longest time--as well as Greek and Roman mythology. I still am, to some extent, but not like I used to be. Ah, TNT, the things you've allowed me to ponder tonight.
And to think I could have been worrying about why my email isn't working properly or tests or studying. Bwahahaha.
... This is probably one of the reasons I have so much to worry about. I'm like some ADD child who's on a sugar rush and forgot to take my meds. Okay, well perhaps not that bad. But you get the picture.